Recently we discovered one of our PC's flickering and banding in the preview window during playback and on exports. Shortly thereafter, the same issue appeared on another workstation. What we are seeing is a variation of issues that include but are not limited to the following within the preview window and more importantly in our renders:
- Flicker - Video changes in brightness
- Moire effect - Can see a cross-hatch pattern during playback
- Banding - You can clearly make out horizontal or vertical lines, or sometimes both.
- Seeing layers beneath 100% opacity layers. When two layers are stacked with footage, you can see the footage below as if the top layer is at 97% despite the actuality of it being at 100%.
These issues exist on multiple machines with differing specs, in all projects. This is neither a project or machine-based issue. All effects removed from clips within the timeline; source footage looks great in standalone player. These issues occur with a new project with a blank color matte.
Just spent 3+ hours in live chat with an Adobe Rep who remotely team-viewed to see the same issues testing project base solutions to no avail. Everything was tested from render containers/codecs, local vs server, project managing, cache clearing, etc. These same projects did not exhibit these issues a week ago.
All of these situations lead me to believe that this is a Premiere issue, something changed with how Premiere is handling our files and this is a huge issue. We are unable to deliver finals to clients due to this problem.
Ticket # 0185909669