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May 16, 2025

Black noise artifact with warp stabilizer and color grade

  • May 16, 2025
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I keep running into this issue when working with Red Raw footage. I will apply warp stabilizer to the clip, then add my color grade onto an adjustment layer above the clips. When rendering + exporting, some if not most of the entire timeline comes out unscathed, but some sequences in this timeline get this terrible black screen thing going on and I have no idea why. I have tried all different combinations of solutions and yet the only solution is removing either the grade or warp stabilizer. Premier should be able to handle those two things together. I am running a 20220 Retina 5k iMac, 3.8 GHz 8-core intel core iZ, Radeon Pro 5700 16 GB and 64Gb of Ram, as well as 50% of my internal storage is free. I have been working with red footage for a few years now as well as doing the simple warp stabilizer and grading clips and only recently started having this issue and it has continued over multiple versions of Premier and Media Encoder. 

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Community Manager
May 16, 2025

Hi @Chase5C7D,

 

Welcome to the Premiere Pro forums!  We’re happy you’ve reached out.  What happens if you apply toe color directly to the clip?  Have you tried nesting to see if that makes a difference?  I know you said multiple versions, but what version are you currently experiencing the problem in?  

We’ll need a bit more info to try to help with your issue. Please see: How do I write a bug report?  I hope we can help you soon.

R Neil Haugen
Legend
May 16, 2025

Warp is by far the heaviest effect in Premiere, quite massive in computing demand.

 

While color work is not as demanding, the processing for color/tonal changes is also pretty demanding.

 

So doing both ... is probably where the issue comes up. As perhaps an order of processing thing.

 

So try nesting the clip, then see if the color changes don't cause an issue. I know when applyilng directly to the clip, you do need to apply Warp, nest, then do Lumetri.

 

Or ... Warp, render & replace, then do all other work. Which is what I normally do, as it dramatically simplifies and speeds the final export.

 

 

Everyone's mileage always varies ...