Blend Mode issues Adobe never bothered to fix - PLEASE FIX!
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
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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!
