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July 7, 2022
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Blend Mode issues Adobe never bothered to fix - PLEASE FIX!

  • July 7, 2022
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Hi,

 

Adobe, please FIX the way Premiere handles blend modes in any other scenario than a straight workflow, cause right now it is essentially broken if you want to do something more "advanced" than stitch various clips in straight timeline together.

 

For example, almost all of my work involve a lot of various graphical elements stacked together with many different blend modes. And if I have, for example, 3 graphical layers with different blend modes forming the needed picture and I want to Nest them to handle as one piece easily - bam - all the effects are gone, cause nested sequence have its own blend mode and does not respect the blend modes of its layers, ruining the desired effect.

 

Another BIG issue is transitions, because Adobe does not respect the blend modes of clips between transition, and it was confirmed by a Boris FX representative. To understand what I mean here is my original post on Boris FX forum about the issue with the explanation video:

 

"This problem has been bothering me for some time but only recently it became such an annoyance that I decided to post here with question. I have a lot of videos I need to edit where various graphical and animated elements should be set to Blend Mode “Screen” instead of “Normal” in Premiere Pro. And when you apply a BCC transitions to these elements - transition does not respect the Blend Mode. The moment the transition starts it switches the element of transition back to “Normal” and when transition ends it switches to “Screen” again leaving a very noticeable effect. So my question is - is it possible to make BCC transition respect the Blend Mode of the elements transition is applied to or this problem is unfixable by some strange reason? Here is the video: https://www.dropbox.com/s/0i0rkuhkzmbaizr/2021-08-02%2020-12-39.mkv?dl=0

"

After some clarification the Boris FX guy wrote the following:

 

"Good news : I have successfully replicated your issue
Bad news : Looks like an Adobe bug as I’m also seeing the issue with the built-in transitions in Premiere Pro

All is not lost though - I’ll write this up as a feature request and see if our engineers can code around the problem. A solution would probably have to wait for the next major release though, which would be sometime later this year.

Thanks for bringing this to our attention."

 

It was in August 2021, and almost a year later not only this OBVIOUS BUG has not been fixed by them, it is still present in Adobe's own transitions, which does not respect blend modes! And this is ridiculous cause there were similar topics on this community with same problems dating back several years ago. Like, this is not a priority at all? But it hurts workflow of many people daily!

 

And I am not even talking about routine "send the error report to Adobe" when closing the program and it crashes, which happens like 3 times out of 5. Does anybody analyze these reports to ensure the software's stability? Seems like not, cause nothing changes. So PLEASE fix those bugs and provide us ways to work more easy and efficiently!

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2 replies

Kevin-Monahan
Community Manager
Community Manager
July 8, 2022

Hi Serega,

You would need to add a transition to blended clips in a nest because blend modes are at a different level in the render order pipeline and would not be respected in that case. I applied Blend modes to clips and they were not affected by nesting. Not sure what's going on there.

 

Nesting clips containing effects to have a transition work on them is not really a bug, it's more the way NLE software is architected. Other editing systems have the same kinds of workflows.

 

Thanks,
Kevin

Kevin Monahan - Sr. Community and Engagement Strategist – Adobe Pro Video and Audio
Serega_MAuthor
Inspiring
July 8, 2022

Kevin, I dunno how NLE software is architected but to me it is an obvious bug (shortcoming) when you can not simply apply transition between, say, clip with blend mode "overlay" and next clip with normal blend mode. It creates undesired effects I have demonstrated in the video and Boris FX guys say it IS a bug in Premiere. Of course they are experts in their own software, not yours, but as Premiere is the host for Boris, I think they know what they are talking about. In any way, these "features" complicate things A LOT for when you mostly work with videos and graphics which needs to have blend modes other than "normal", and it would REALLY be cool if your engineers would be able to resolve them 🙂

 

Also, to add more stability to the software as well, as almost constant crtashes on exit even on the beast machine like mine is not cool 😉

Serega_MAuthor
Inspiring
July 12, 2022

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Wow, man! Thanks for the info cause this is news to me, guess I was always more "gamer" than creative profressional, it seems, even though I edit videos for more than 15 years already. Go figure 🙂 From now on will be installing Studio Drivers and will see if it will make any difference (hopefully it will). Thanks again! 😆

Ann Bens
Community Expert
Community Expert
July 7, 2022
Serega_MAuthor
Inspiring
July 7, 2022

Will do, thanks. And this is a collection of bugs, really 🙂