Slightly dark border at edge

I seem to have a very slight dark border applied to videos I import into motion.
It seems to only be 1 pixel wide and is just a darker shade. Does anyone know how to remove this?
I've checked it's not a codec issue by importing from an uncompressed image sequence.

That slightly darker edge is usually a result of deinterlacing.
There are several things you could do...
1) crop the top line off
Inspector > Properties > Crop > Top: 1
or
2) you can clone (K) your video, crop all away *except* the top dark line, and set its Blend Mode to Add (or Screen/Lighten/just about any of that group), adjust brightness with Opacity until you get a comfortable match [this approach might cause problems if you try to apply filters and effects to the source video, but you might get away with adding those filters and effects to the Group the original and the clone are in.]
3) Apply Filters > Border > Bevel: Bevel Width 0.01; Opacity 1.0; and Light Color black (simple border has a 1px "shading" you don't want.)
One other thing I might try for that situation: Clone the video, move it behind the original, move the original video up one frame, essentially duplicating the bottom line (it would be less noticeable in my opinion than duplicating the 2nd top line... I guess it would depend on the resolution.)

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