Layer 2 is shading Layer 1. Why?

[elandau1260]

Junior Adobe Premiere user here. Using Premiere Pro 2020 on Windows 10.

I am interviewing a person on Layer 1. I added a picture in the upper right corner of the screen on Layer 2. I just imported the image and dragged it to the timeline so it is on a new layer, then scaled it and repositioned it using the Effects Control panel.  If I select "Scale" on that object, the bounding box is just around the image in the upper-right.  It looks perfect in Premiere when I playback, but when I export to MP4, for the duration of the clip on Layer2, the whole of Layer1 fades slightly.  Is there a way to not have the whole of Layer 1 fade?

Export settings: H.264, Match Source Bitrate, HW encoding, VBR, 1 pass, Target Bitrate: 10Mbps

Any ideas on what causes this and how to not fade the whole bottom layer?

[Ann Bens]

Uncheck Composite in Linear color in the sequence settings.

[elandau1260]

Thanks for the suggestion but that did not fix the issue.  I unchecked the "Composite in Linea Color" and re-exported.  The resulting MP4 still has the issue.  The entire image (Layer 1) is slighly masked (looks like a light grey fog) for the duration that Layer 2 (in the upper right) is displayed.

-Ed

[Peru Bob]

Make sure the opacity blend mode is set to normal and that opacity is 100%.

[elandau1260]

Yes.   For the bottom layer (Layer 1), the Effect Control panel shows 100% Opacity with a blend-mode of Normal.

[elandau1260]

One more piece of informaton:   I have tried this twice in my timeline... once with a JPG and once with a PNG which transparent background. Both are scalled to fit in the upper right of the screen so we can still see the person being interviewed on Layer 1 and both instances seem to behave the same way (applying some white shade to all of layer 1).

[elandau1260]

More information:  I resized my JPG in Photoshop (outside Premiere) and tried to add it to Layer 2 so I could rule out the scaling and moving I did in Premiere.  The same "shading" of Layer 1 happened.  In this case, I just dragged the new smaller JPG onto my timeline on Layer 2 and exported my timeout.  No scaling, moving or anything.  Same issue.

[Ann Bens · Accepted solution]

Turn off hardware encoding in export settings.

[elandau1260]

THANK YOU !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[elandau1260]

Bummer though that I can't use my GPU.   Any ideas why??  I guess I should invest in a larger CPU.   I actually built this with a Ryzen5 3600 (64GB & NVMe drive)  just for this project but Premiere still sometimes cannot playback and sync with video... video sometimes freezes.   What CPU does it take?  My videos are only about 10 minutes long with at most 4 layers.