Phantom (Ghost) Image in the Background of My Video!!

Report · Dec 19, 2025

Hey y'all,

I have been going at this for days now and have found no solution, I don't know much about premire pro and am working on this project for a client, he had set everything up to where it was video layered under a png to make it look like it's inside of a tv on the screen however for some reason in this onse section of the video it has a faint outline of the tv frame. I have a ton of animations on an adjustment layer that covers the majority of these elements that are supposed to show up within the TV frame, so I tried nesting it and put the adjustment laye rover it but that didn't work. The adjustment layer is at 200% scale which i read may be the problem however even when i scale it down you can still see the phantom TV in the nested elements so I'm not sure whats going on. I really to resolve this its due tomorrow. Any help would be be super appreciated. I'll a screenshot of the issue for reference. Also added notes:

1. I read somewhere that applying scale animations to adjustement layers can mess things up so I tried moving that part of the animation to the actual video via transform but that stillleft a faint TV outline even after adjusting the top Adjustment layer to max 100 Scale.

Report · Dec 20, 2025

Best is not to scale adjustment layers, just make sure they are the same dimension as the sequence.

Open the nest and check the opacity of the green screen, might not be 100%

BTW it does not look like a nest to me, but that might be of the label coloring.

V2 shinning through V3 is more likely.

Report · Dec 20, 2025

Do NOT scale adjustment layers ... just, don't. Bad things happen. Mixing scalling an adjustment layer with animations applied to layers not in the AL itself ... that's a mess.

And the order you have things layered in matters. From your description, I would not have used an AL at all, I'd have masked the layers. Simpler to do, and it works.