Compositing showing edge lines

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Elliott Balsley

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Compositing showing edge lines

PostTue Aug 11, 2015 2:54 am

I want to do a simple split-screen composite in Resolve (v11) to hide an actor issue. I put a shot on track V2 above an identical shot on track V1, and crop the top clip to make a split screen. Now I am seeing a horizontal line across the frame along the edge of the top clip. How to fix this?

The clips are 6K R3D in an HD timeline, and I'm using full debayer. The problem is visible in the viewer and also in rendered QuickTime output. I thought maybe it's related to anti-aliasing, but I've tried aliasing both on and off in Image Scaling settings, and it makes no difference. I also tried changing the Resize Filter from sharper to smoother
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Re: Compositing showing edge lines

PostTue Aug 11, 2015 8:01 am

Did you have an alpha mask with blur contour? Maybe for some reason Resolve bring the blurring around the frame. Or a power window position or size?
It happened to me once, when I was enhancing the contrast in midtones of some part of the image with qualifier, suddenly the frame shows a little white border.
Maybe if you show a capture of your nodes tree, we can see what's going on.
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Re: Compositing showing edge lines

PostTue Aug 11, 2015 6:55 pm

This happens with zero clip and track nodes. No alpha channels — the only thing I set is the crop on clip 2.
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Re: Compositing showing edge lines

PostWed Aug 12, 2015 7:13 pm

I've seen the same thing in R11. It seems like a limitation of the software.
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Re: Compositing showing edge lines

PostWed Aug 12, 2015 7:17 pm

Looks like a premult / unpremult problem.
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Re: Compositing showing edge lines

PostWed Aug 12, 2015 9:43 pm

Hello, Elliot,
Thank you for alerting us to this issue.
I was able to replicate an issue

I have found a workaround:

On a clip that is cropped (layer above):

1. Smooth setting for both resize and debayer in the sizing tab of the Project settings. Bilinear setting for the Monitoring section of the Master Project Settings.

2. In a node tree upstream of any corrections add a layer mixer node.

3. Remove link from the origin to the secondary node that feeds the layer mixer.

4. Right click on the secondary node and add external matte (chose the clip itself)

5. New node will pop up upstream of the secondary node, that is feeding the layer mixer node.

6. Disconnect the key feeder link (Triangle to Triangle) from the EXT MATTE and replace with the image link circle to circle).

This will remove the matte line. The layer mixer node should be on the normal mode.

I have performed the testing on a 6K r3d media in both 11.3.1 and 12 beta 28

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Re: Compositing showing edge lines

PostThu Aug 13, 2015 12:03 am

Thanks, that trick works.
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Re: Compositing showing edge lines

PostWed Sep 30, 2020 1:13 pm

Has there been a software update fixing this issue yet? I've run into this problem multiple times (on various kinds of footage and even generators within Resolve) trying to crop clips but they show an edge where the crop line is. Doing this process above seems like a lot just for a simple crop line not to show up. Would love a software update to fix this as cropping is a very basic action.
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Re: Compositing showing edge lines

PostMon Jul 26, 2021 9:00 pm

Six years later, and I'm continuing to have this same issue in 17.2.2.

The Layer Mixer workaround thankfully works, but it's definitely an unnecessarily cumbersome solution for such a common task.
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Re: Compositing showing edge lines

PostTue Jul 27, 2021 9:38 pm

Hello, Mel,
I am not observing this in 17.2.2 on macOS with 6K r3d media.
Is there a way you could contact us through the support portal ( https://www.blackmagicdesign.com/support/contact/email ) and provide the DRP of the project in which you observe this behavior?
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Re: Compositing showing edge lines

PostTue Jan 17, 2023 7:36 pm

I am using DR 18.0.3 in 2023 and still having the same issue. very annoying. please fix!
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Re: Compositing showing edge lines

PostWed Jan 25, 2023 6:44 pm

Colorado_yoshi wrote:I am using DR 18.0.3 in 2023 and still having the same issue. very annoying. please fix!

Is there a way you could contact us through the support portal ( https://www.blackmagicdesign.com/support/contact/email ) and provide the DRP (as well as the media) of the project in which you observed this behavior?
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