Premiere CS6 cant do a dissolve, can Premiere CC do this?

[Peter Garaway]

In Premiere Pro CC there is now a preference in the Sequence Settings dialog to composite in Linear Color.

Peter Garaway
Adobe
Premiere Pro

[Paul King]

Thanks Jeff

You’re a familiar name and I know you’ve seen this before.
Do you know if the issue is still in Premiere CC?

[Will Eccleston]

So what does “composite in linear color” mean? Does it fix this issue? I have the same issue on multiple macs with CS6 and Quadro 4000 cards.

Will Eccleston
Kinetiscape Films

[Mihael Tominšek]

YES, this feature does solve the problem with fading (and some others too).

I used to make fade-in-out by hand with keyframes, because dissolve effect in Premiere is nonlinear to eyes (it’s actually linear, instead of S-curve). I wasn’t trying to render without CUDA, so I didn’t know that software renderer make it better. And I forgot how it was prior to CUDA, since It is long ago when I used version 4, 3, 2 and 1.

I never used MRQ because it takes 4x longer to export, but all it does is make “sharpening” on eges (actually enhances contrast between dark/bright edges). I used to scale outside Premiere. So it happened I unticked “composite in linear color”, because it sais it will engage MRQ.

I’m glad I had different issue with titles to found this thread and ticked “linear color” back. It does not efect rendering time, but solves dissolve problem and my jagged title edges problem.

While never experienced before in CC version titles have no aliasing at edges on interlaced footage if “composite in linear color” is ticked off and rendering is with cuda. Edges are smooth while title is fading in, after 100% apacity, they become jagged. At fade out they are smooth again. If renderer is software only, problem gone. With “composite in linear color”, the edges are again ok.

While I was searching for this problem, I found solution for the dissolve too. I killed two flyes at once.

Thank you comunity.
MIHAEL