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elandau1260
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May 23, 2021
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Layer 2 is shading Layer 1. Why?

  • May 23, 2021
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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?

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Correct answer Ann Bens

Turn off hardware encoding in export settings.

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elandau1260Author
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May 23, 2021

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
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Ann BensCommunity ExpertCorrect answer
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May 23, 2021

Turn off hardware encoding in export settings.

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elandau1260Author
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May 23, 2021

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

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elandau1260Author
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May 23, 2021

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).

Peru Bob
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Peru BobCommunity Expert
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May 23, 2021

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

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elandau1260Author
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May 23, 2021

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

Ann Bens
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Ann BensCommunity Expert
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May 23, 2021

Uncheck Composite in Linear color in the sequence settings.

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elandau1260Author
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May 23, 2021

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

 

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