Gradient wipe creating hard lines/cropping images

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October 22, 2025
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Hello, I’m attempting to use gradient wipe as a fade in/out of text and photographs over video footage but i’m finding that for some reason when i use keyframes in the effect it creates this strange and unwanted cropping of the image - at first i thought i might have accidentally created a mask or something but that isn̓t the case. Hoping someone has dealt with this before and might be able to offer some advice or a correction that i may have overlooked. I̓ve attatched an example of whats happening

this is an example of the cropping

once the keyframe sequence ends the entire text comes back

this is the effects control panel

sequence settings

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RobShultz

Community Expert

Can you try re-setting the position of the gradient layer and see if that helps. Also if the gradient layer is a smaller frame size than the sequence that can be a problem.

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jakob_2341Author

Participant

Hey, thanks so much - this solved it. I had a nested sequence in my timeline that i checked and realized was at 200% scale - i must have changed the sequence settings after i'd made the nested one and scaled that up, rather than the clips inside it. Once i had re scaled the video inside the nested sequence to compensate for the main sequence upscaling to 4K everything was solved.