Problem with bizarre frames in color

Okay, color is working great for me or the most part. However.
On certain situations, (and I've been unable to nail down exact combinations yet) .. such as if I add a secondary, or two secondaries.. and then add a color effect like grain reduction.. then the output suddenly gets a weird green bar on the right and bottom of the image.. it looks like digital noise, but it renders like that out to final cut as well..
If i take the grain reduction off, then it goes away.. then sometimes with other combinations I"ll get those weird green, sometimes white.. bars on the right and bottom of the image..
help?

abrownrigg wrote:
Okay, color is working great for me or the most part. However.
On certain situations, (and I've been unable to nail down exact combinations yet) .. such as if I add a secondary, or two secondaries.. and then add a color effect like grain reduction.. then the output suddenly gets a weird green bar on the right and bottom of the image.. it looks like digital noise, but it renders like that out to final cut as well..
I just saw this yesterday. I also noted if I turned off one of the secondaries the problem went away, and returned when I enabled it again. Then I went into User settings and toggled the bit depth from float and back again. The purple bar disappeared and stayed away.
Maybe a sign of a needed shut down / startup? I don't know.
Did you have FCP open at the same time? I was switching back and forth since I was making tweaks to my corrections. Don't know if that might be related. But I have noticed FCP and Color don't share the video card very well and since Color is so GPU-reliant...
- pi

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