Image flickering from adjustment layer

OK so using premiere CC 2014 i get an awful flicker on video that I have applied adjustment layers to, if i remove the layer it plays cleanly but with the layer it flickers. whats the fix?

Hello Shane,
I would like to know if Adobe is working on a solution & when we might see a resolution.
Indeed. That would be nice if Adobe would even acknowledge this issue and state whether they are working on a fix or not. Even them stating that they are aware of it but not sure what the fix is would be nice too, at least we will no they are trying to work on it. As I said in a earlier in this thread, this started happening 2 versions ago. So here we are almost coming up on a year later and 2 versions later and still no fix (or acknowledgement that I'm aware of other than someone like Kevin asking for more info).
To my knowledge, no. As far as I know, we have not been able to reproduce the issue in house. If we can't reproduce the issue, we can't fix it. I've not seen the issue on my own systems.
If someone can list specific steps to reproduce the bug, and I can definitely reproduce them here on my own machine, I would be happy to write up the bug. That said, I have brought the issue up to the team and I've certainly acknowledged the issue on other threads.
For businesses problems like these are not welcome at all, and i believe most would much rather more focus on stability than new features.
My sentiment exactly. Every new update since the advent of the cloud model which seems to be approx every 4 months or so, Adobe always comes out with a bunch of new features, workflow enhancements, etc. Personally, I'd like to see an update or two with no new features and Adobe just concentrating on fixes. New features are great, but get the old features and kinks worked out first.
Yes, you see this from customers a lot. Focus on bug fixes/stability/etc, not new features. Thing is, we do fix a substantial amount of issues in every release. These issues come directly from customer reports, bug reports, our product improvement program, our beta testers, from internal testing, etc.
Here you go:
What's Fixed in Premiere Pro CC2014.2
What's New and What's Fixed in 2014.1
And these aren't even the complete lists of fixed items. The bottom line is that it is a very fine line to walk, balancing between what's wanted and what's needed. That said, focusing on certain areas of concern, like performance and stability are still done. For example, After Effects has had relatively few features over the past year because they are focusing on performance (and have indicated they are doing so).
If you'd like the Premiere Pro team to focus efforts on stability, for example, by all means, let those that are in charge of the product know how you feel in a feature request/bug report here: http://www.adobe.com/go/wish
IMO PP is the best editing software out there. I am understanding that no software is 100% perfect (bug free). There are endless different user configurations, hardware configurations, etc that there is no way PP will run 100% perfect on every system out there.
For sure. In my own configurations, my MacBook Pro has been solid in OS X 10.8.5 for some time now. I was gun-shy at updating to Mavericks because QuickTime is treated so differently now. I must say, that I've not seen any of these odd issues seen by Mavericks and Yosemite users at all.
My i7/Quadro 4000 Windows system on 8.1 has also been flawless.
For me, it's not easy testing these issues because everything I run "just works."
But if Adobe can at least address the most common major bugs such as this flickering one which appears a major problem across a broad spectrum of users that would be great.
We definitely would if we could reproduce the issue. If you have set steps to reproduce the issue every time, please let me know. I certainly would love to help solve the issue for users that are having the problem.
Thanks,
Kevin

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3. Thought all was good and that I could now peacefully continue to finish my project. I was wrong. Found that adding sharpening in adjustment layer causes a small border to form around the entire frame. The pixels seem faded or translucent or something.
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That's it. Pretty sure this post will help folks out, but man I am going to run out and give another NLE a shot. None of these operations should be this difficult. Makes me wonder if Adobe even attempts to use their own programs. I don't see how anyone could possibly let a huge tool like Premiere Pro suffer from these issues -- and for so long a period of time. Absolutely ridiculous. Adobe truly seems to be asleep at the wheel. This is some amateur crap here.

Thanks for this post. It would be cool (since Adobe doesn't seem to use their products) if there were more posts like this that I could read before I upgrade. I'm having the flickering w adjustment layer problem you mentioned in #2 - and this post is over month old! Aghh

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Hi everybody,
I use Premiere Elements for many years and am now testing Premiere Pro in order to make the descision wether to change to pro or not.
So I trying out several things and have mor than one question
1.: I'm wondering if there's a method to bind an adjustment layer to specific tracks and not too ALL track below it.
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Kind regards,
Lutz

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3.: That's odd ... at least for the way I'm working. Is there no way to set the Export Tool to "all" as a new default? Because I need the Work Area Bar in the Timeline, too, but when rendering, I need all in 99% ... but am afraid I could forget to change the setting from WAB to "all". I didn't expect a professional and long developed software not to have settings for such an important option! Is there really now way?
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thank you for your patience
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https://www.adobe.com/cfusion/mmform/index.cfm?name=wishform&loc=en
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