oh gotcha, yeah both are black so have no idea what the issue is. One thing I did notice was Depth of Field seemed to make it worse. But even with zero DoF it still shows up. I'll post a screenshot of the issue and my settings in a bit.

@jayroth2020 Good advice. In my situation, I have 2 environments. 1st is my HDRI lighting set to primary. 2nd is set to just straight Black to hide the HDRI and set to Visible > Backplate. I will have to experiment with disabling both environments or just using one that is Black. If that's the case ...

Thanks for those tips. None of them worked for my Linear workflow. I tried the matte chokers and remove color matting and nothing works. I found a workaround but it's not great. I chose the crypto color I wanted to matte, set my layer to Luma matte, and added a Gaussian Blur and Exposure and ...