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Abbottoklus
Inspiring
January 15, 2025
Question

Adjustment layers with motion effects over mixed resolution footage/cropped timelines are broken

  • January 15, 2025
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This has been going on for several months now. I have a transitions pack which uses a mix of adjustment layers to create special transitions (zooms, wipes, camera shakes, spins, etc.) using a variety of motion/tiling/mirror effects.

 

These used to all work perfectly fine when working with footage of different resolutions (ex. 1080p and 4K), or when exporting cropped videos (ex. a 16:9 sequence cropped into 4:3 for instagram), but at some point last year an update broke them. Now those effects render as weird kaleidoscope-like clips. Everything plays back correctly in the timeline, and previews also render without any issues. The problem only happens on export, and having "use previews" toggled makes no difference.

 

Weirder still is that the effects work properly when exporting directly from Premiere, but not if you send to Media Encoder, but even then, ONLY when exporting at the timeline's native resolution. If you try to export a cropped timeline they won't work either way.

 

My workaround has been to render clips into the timeline's resolution, import and replace them on the timeline. I've tried nesting clips instead but it doesn't work. Or for a cropped export, exporting the entire timeline at full resolution then importing the full video and exporting a cropped version. Very annoying and time consuming work arounds for something that used to just work without any issues.

 

Attached a couple screenshots, one showing the expected effect in the timeline with a simulated camera shake, and one showing the exported frame tiled like a kaleidoscope.

3 replies

Abbottoklus
Inspiring
January 22, 2025

@Kevin-Monahan @jamieclarke hey guys, thanks for the quick replies. Sorry, I've been busy the last few days but am planning to set aside some time by this weekend to both troubleshoot a couple things and then gather appropriate files to include for upload.

jamieclarke
Community Manager
Community Manager
January 15, 2025

Hi @Abbottoklus - Please see the message from Kevin.  Thanks for filing your report.  Let us know if you reach out to the third party developers

Kevin J. Monahan Jr.
Community Manager
Community Manager
January 15, 2025

Hi @Abbottoklus,

Thanks for the post. I have not heard of similar issues, in general. Have you checked with the manufacturer or these "transition packs" as to the compatibility with them and current versions of Premiere Pro?

If not, see if others using that product are having similar issues and let us know. I don't have further information or comparative cases due to the lack of detail in your case. If there are reproducible cases that others are seeing, please let me know.

 

A copy of your project file and sample media could help, along with info around the particular product.

 

If all seems well on playback and export and only export is the issue, you might want to try exporting using an editing codec instead of H.264. Match the Sequence Settings, Video Preview Settings, and Export settings and you could go for a ProRes or DNxHR output using smart rendering. Please try that. The technique is here: https://adobe.ly/3BXQCct. I hope we can help you.

 

Thanks,
Kevin

 

 

Kevin Monahan - Sr. Community and Engagement Strategist – Adobe Pro Video and Audio