No matter what I try to do with Universe Transitions, there is some sort of distortion that looks like fingerprints embedded in every video it touches.
I tried to even backpedal my Universe version to 5.0 to no avail.
Here’s what’s happening, I tried both Channel Surf/Black Flicker & completely different Fold/Left and the footage gets this green distortion that looks like fingerprints over it. This shows up even after I remove the effect, it also shows up when I try to view the footage in project window, which has NEVER happened in my entire career of using After Effects. This was performed on footage that was scaled down from 4K to fit a 1080x1080 window. I’ve done this same thing with other transition packages (not Red Giant) and had no issue. This is frustrating, to say the least, as I have no idea how a plugin can affect footage after the effect has already been deleted from footage on timeline.
I can only get the distortion to go away if I delete the file from project window and then re-import it again.
What is going on? Any assistance would be helpful, I’ve attached what the distortion looks like, you can see the green ‘thumbprints’ over the actors head to the left.