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Gaussian Blur effect heavily crops images.

I'm having an issue in Final Cut Pro where applying the Gaussian Blur effect to any image crops it heavily and I don't know why.


Take this image of a mountain:


Now, if I want to blur it nicely (say, to prepare it for the blur-sides portrait crop effect), I'd apply a Gaussian Blur effect, like so:



Now, notice how a huge amount of the sky colour seems to be missing. If we reduce the Amount to 0, the problem becomes apparent:


The blur effect has heavily cropped in the image, and it's not ideal. Does anyone know how to fix it?


Specs:

  • MacBook Air, M1, 2020, with 8GB of RAM
  • macOS Monterey 12.3
  • Final Cut Pro 10.6.1

MacBook Air (2020 or later)

Posted on Mar 21, 2022 11:07 AM

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Posted on Mar 21, 2022 11:53 AM

You're using the 360º Gaussian effect. Do you still have the same problem with the regular "Gaussian"?

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Gaussian Blur effect heavily crops images.

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