Warp Stabilizer offsets frame location

[lorenm84878416]

Premiere 13.1.5- working in a triptych layout for a museum installation. Full HD has been shrunk to 33%. I have left, center and right images laid out for color correction and tweaks.

I applied the Warp Stabilizer to a center screen image with these settings:

Result: Smooth Motion

Smoothness- 50%

Method - Position, Scale, Rotation

Preserve Scale- unchecked

Borders>Framing- Stabilize, Crop, Auto-Scale

Auto-scale (112.5%)

I've converted the project to Premiere 14 to do final review. At the point where this stabilized screen appears it shifts to the upper left during playback. When I stop playback, it appears right back where it belongs, centered and flush with flanking screens.

Whaaa?

I don't use WP too often in this show. But now I have to check to see if other screens are affected.

Although I dislike the"new"Cloud Desktop app's layout as intensely as most users, at least it lists both previous and new iterations of the apps. I'm thinking this will be extremely important. Unless I'm mistaken, you have some effects translation work to do in 14 before releasing it?

UPDATE- This phenomenon happens in13.1.5 as well!!

In each case, I made a DUPLICATE TIMELINE to rescale each screen to full frame for export. And before I do any of that, I review it and I see the WP screen behaves exactly the same way in the DUPLICATE timeline.

Whaaa?

Best, as always,
Loren

[Paul Everington]

Update: the problem goes away if I switch off GPU acceleration and use just software rendering.

This is a bug that first appeared way back in 2014! but it would appear to be back with a vengeance!

[Paul Everington]

Same problem here on Premiere Pro 14.0.0 ...

4k footage placed in an HD timeline - playback fine.

Add Warp Stabilizer and the playback appears shifted up and to the left of the screen until I press pause and it returns to the correct position.

Rendered output if fine, it's just the playback during editing that is effected. Having completed a similar edit on the 12th December 2019 (just a couple of weeks ago) with no issues I guess it's a new bug.

Perhaps a Windows update has caused the issue?

[MaSh]

My workaroud: set sequence in-out over the shifted clip, render sequence in to out (i have this on keyboard shortcut 0-Numpad, just linke in AE).

As longs as it is green prerendered i can scrub an watch as usual.

Still an annoying bug... worked for years without a hitch.

[maxi_maxi]

It’s 4/19/20 and I’m still having this problem. I’m running the latest Premiere Pro on a new MacPro with the latest OS. Warp stabilized footage shifts up and to the left revealing the track(s) below it during playback. When paused it displays correctly and it exports out correctly but there is no way to preview what warp stabilizer has done without exporting.

[Daiki Shinomiya]

Same exact problem for me... any updates?

[kstebbs71]

6/8/2020

Premiere v14.2.0

This is still an issue, and has been for years.

[Juan Herrera]

I'm working with 4k footage on an HD timeline and it's been persistently happening on two devices now. I've learned that if you adjust the SCALE of the footage even by just one point, the image stays fixed even during playback. (It renders out fine either way) It's just very very, VERY obnoxious not being able to see your frame during playback edits and then also now having to crop into an image just for the luxury we should already have to be able to edit a product together.

[Pierre Louis B.]

Just experienced this issue for the first time ever on version 14.3.1. Very frustrating! Thank you for the scaling tip Juan! Setting my 4k footage in FullHD timeline to 50.01% solves the problem! This issue needs to be fixed quick.

[marcusisahooper]

10/29/20

I'm having the same issue.

I found that rendering from the in to out point is a good temporary fix. However, if I was working on a slower machine, this process might take a while each time.

[bryguy2001]

Having the same problem in November 2020
Going to try some of the work around mentioned here but it would be nice if Adobe could fix this. It's not like we don't pay them enough 😜

[Adam27904701a17r]

Same here Bryan White, November 2020 and still experiencing this issue.

[cmacknair]

Hey guys, found a solution that doesn't include switching playback to software only.

Make all the necessary adjustments you need to do on your video file in the timeline. Then right click on the clip you want to warp stabilize, click on "Nest..." create the nested sequence. Then drop the warp stabilizer on that nested clip and it'll work as needed. Warp stabilizer has an easier time doing what it needs to do when it's running on a nested clip.

[Kombi Life]

please fix this bug - I'm using Martin's work around too. But this is annoying and shouldn't be happening.

[CCS18]

I haven't experienced this problem in years... now it's back and it's killing me. I have the latest 14.8 and it's 2021. It's crashing on me a lot too. I really like the interface of Premiere, but the performance is draining me.

[technofou]

Stuffing all the footage inside a nest sequence if far from a solution... Makes any serious color work extremely difficult.

[Christian_Filmmaker]

To me it happens when I reduze UHD Material in a HD Timeline by 50% and add the warp stabilizer. When I change 50% to 50,1 the problem is gone. It's really stupid but this is at last an easy solution better than nesting.

[Ops_HH]

I just found a stupidly simple fix for this on YouTube from Romain Do. If you want to skip the video linked below. Basically, the quickest fix is to set the scale of your clip to 50.1 or higher. If the scale is at 50.0 or less the offset will still happen. I literally just tried this and it worked like a dream. Hope this helps someone and much as it helped me!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SJ2Xv9ofVpA

[Virgil at Convincible]

Still an issue. I've got a low resolution source, upscaled 182%, then nested. Warp Stabiliser on the nested clip still offsets by a few hundred pixels. Stabilize Only mode, and Preserve Scale.

[jakeh12094232]

Still having this issue - June 2021 - Brand new specced up iMac 2021

[christopherm13668766]

I'm having this issue too! Version 15.4. It was showing the offset during export too. I had adjusted the position to look 'right' during playback, and as soon as I touched scale (which was at 50%, 4k to HD) the offset disappeared and I had to undo my corrections. For some reason scaling in to 55% fixed it. Must be some error with the Warp Stabilizer effect.

[aaronf29734906]

same issue, using the 50.1% scale workaround but another obnoxious bug in premiere....

[Indigo Motion]

Setting the scale to 50.1 definitely solves the issue, but it is another step and Adobe should address this issue! I truly enjoy Adobe CC, the libraries, Photoshop, Illustrator, After Effects, and occasionally other apps but - Premiere is the one that is giving me hard time with problems. I am using other apps similar to Premiere, and to be honest it's beginning to lag behind in both functions and performance for past 2-3 years.

[Wisse5FC6]

Still having this problem 24-11-21

[corya87047792]

Same issue.

Adobe, I cannot believe you have not addressed this bug at all in the many, many years it has been an issue.