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December 31, 2016
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Problem with Directional Blur

  • December 31, 2016
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I've encountered a rather peculiar problem when making my most recent video.  I was using the Directional Blur effect to make text fly across the screen.  This was the first time I've ever used the directional blur effect.  I thought everything was fine until I exported the video and realized that every time the effect occurred, lines or some sort of distortion filled the screen.  The first screenshot is the first export with Mercury Playback Engine GPU Acceleration turned on.  The distortion showed up just before the blurred text moved on screen.  When the text leaves in a similar blurred motion, the distortion occurs again.

The second image is from earlier in the video.  This time I turned the GPU acceleration off to software only.  Now, there are two black vertical lines on both sides where the blurred text will appear.

I'm using Premiere Pro CC2015 9.2

Windows 10 64

Intel i7 6700k processor

corsair vengeance 8gb x2 RAM

MSI radeon r9 390 graphics card

Is there any way to fix the issue or am I doomed to never use the directional blur?

Thanks for your input and let me know if there's any more information I can give.

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Unfortunately, your solution did not fix the problem, although it did inspire within me to try something.  I lowered the values used for the blur effect, specifically the direction, and it worked.  I guess the higher the value, the more distortion I get.

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Ann Bens
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Community Expert
December 31, 2016

There is no reason for the blur to act this way.

Nest the titles before adding the blur.

See if that will help.

Correct answer
December 31, 2016

Unfortunately, your solution did not fix the problem, although it did inspire within me to try something.  I lowered the values used for the blur effect, specifically the direction, and it worked.  I guess the higher the value, the more distortion I get.