Transparency issue within linear wipe effect

Hello,
my client wishes some special linear wipe transitions for his new image movie. Due to the fact, that the transition should have a specified angle i used the "linear wipe" effect to make some presets.
To get a smooth transition i tried to use the feathered edge option. As soon as i choose a value above 9 pixels, the whole layer gets a little bit transparent (approximately 5%) and you can see all video tracks underneath the clip.
I have no idea how to solve this problem. First, i thought that this issue occures only in the preview monitor, but you can see the slight transparency even in the final render. I am surprised that the "linear wipe" effect works perfectly within After Effects, even it is the same plugin file (.aex).
So i tried to import the whole premiere project file into after effects. unfortunately without success.
My current version of Premiere is "Adobe Premiere Pro CC v7.2.2"
Thanks for any support.
Feathered Edge: 9px
Feathered Edge: 10px

Hi BB,
Sorry you did not get a response here. Did you ever resolve this issue? There is another user on the Red User forum experiencing the same issue. Here's a link: Linear wipe transparency Bug
Any details on your system and media would be most helpful in trying to resolve this issue.
Thanks,
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Revision: 10960
Author:   [email protected]
Date:     2009-10-09 13:55:47 -0700 (Fri, 09 Oct 2009)
Log Message:
Fixed performance of Wipe effect. It turns out that micro-tuning the shader code is very important, since that same inner loop runs on every pixel of the bitmap being affected. This change splits the single Wipe shader (with a direction parameter) into four separate Wipe shaders (WipeLeft, etc.), to avoid a switch on the direction parameter. Also, it avoids some setup of pixel values, only bothering to sample the pixel values after it determines which image to sample from. Little stuff, but gained about 20-25% performance on some sample wipe effects.
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Reviewer: Corey
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Is noteworthy for integration: No
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