Why does a thin vertical pink or green line appear on the right side of my screen during my cross dissolves?

[Ann Bens]

There is a known bug concerning some transitions (one of them being cross dissolve)and stills. The wordaround is adding an opacity keyframe for the still involved. No tweeking needed. Maybe this will work for you to by adding an opacity keyframe on your footage involved. Just a shot in the dark.

[Ben Mears]

Interesting, thanks for the workaround idea.

Unfortunately, adding an opacity keyframe to the footage didn’t solve the problem and the pink/green line is still present. This is pretty frustrating because cross dissolves are pretty much the only transition I need to use and it looks like I’m going to have to figure something else out.

thanks anyway and if anyone finds a solution to this bug, please post it here

[Eddie Lotter]

[Ben Mears] “I’m currently using editing WMV videos”

Have a look at: FAQ: How do I import xyz format files?

Cheers
Eddie

[Ben Mears]

Thanks for the suggestion Eddie.

Unfortunately, this solution didn’t work either. I tried converting the WMV footage to both MOV and AVI before importing it into Premiere and I still got the thin colored line on the right side of the screen during the cross dissolves. I have other footage that will successfully cross dissolve without any problems and it seems like the other video transitions work fine so I’m even more confused now, ha ha.

Looks like it’ll have to be straight cuts for me on this one. Thanks for the help though and please keep posting possible solutions if you have them!

[Paul Benson]

Does the colored edge follow the clip or the frame? In other words, what happens if you grow the clips to 200%? Is the colored edge still seen, or has it been moved outside of the picture frame?

Pauley

[Ben Mears]

Thanks for the idea Pauley.

I had thought of this too but unfortunately the line follows the frame and not the clip, so scaling the clip up doesn’t solve the problem. Interestingly enough, if I scale the clip down so that the edge of the clip isn’t touching the edge of the frame, the line disappears. I have no idea why. The same kind of thing happens with positioning, if the clip is touching the right edge of the frame at all the line appears. The line will disappear if the clip doesn’t touch the right edge of the frame. This doesn’t really help me though since I need the clip to fill the entire frame at an 100% scale and touching all edges.

Thanks for all the suggestions so far, please keep ’em coming!

[Paul Benson]

Well, you shouldn’t have to do this, but what about creating a timeline that is a bit bigger than your needs. Put your clips centered and at the normal resolution (but they will not be touching an edge) and do all of your work and transitions here.
Next create another timeline with your typical resolution and nest the first one inside.

What a pain, but it may work.

Pauley

[Ben Mears]

Way to go Pauley !!! You solution seems to have worked !!!

So, in case anybody else is having this problem, here is what I did:

– My current time line/sequence is 854 x 480 so I created a new timeline/sequence that was 200 x 200 bigger than this size (1054 x 680)

-I copied all the clips and transitions from my current timeline into the 1054 x 680 timeline. Some of the footage didn’t touch the edges but some of it did (since the footage touching the edges had already been scaled up past the frame boundary of the 854 x 480 sequence). The thin pink or green line was visible on the transitions in the 1054 x 680 timeline where the footage touched the edge of the frame.

-I created a new 854 x 480 sequence and moved the entire 1054 x 680 sequence into it. Be sure to move the sequence itself and not just copy and past the clips and transitions again.

-The new 854 x 480 sequence is sized correctly and does not contain the pink or green lines during the cross dissolves.

Thanks again Pauley!

[Ben Mears]

Ok, I feel that I should make an additional note about this workaround.

After exporting the final sequence I realized that some of the still shots and clips that had movement and/or scale keyframes weren’t positioned correctly. They were positioned correctly in the normal sized sequence but became misaligned after moving them to the oversized sequence. I’m pretty sure this has to do with the copying and pasting between the different dimension timelines. So, make sure to double check that your clips are positioned correctly in the final sequence that you will be exporting.

I found that the easiest way to adjust the clips was to make slight position or scale changes in the oversized dimesion timeline (the 1054 x 680 timeline) and then check the final, normal sized sequence (854 x 480) to make sure the positioning was correct. This required several attempts of slight nudging and back and forth checking to get everything lined up properly.

[Kevin Phillips]

Thanks to all at Creative Cow for mentioning the problem and solving it! It’s pretty disheartening to realize that this “bug” still exists in CS5. I took the route of making the still image (a type slide, in my case) smaller and all was then well in my tiny world.