Hi all, would really appreciate your thoughts on this, and hopefully a solution. Has anybody had the issue of footage being exported from premiere without its colour grade & contrast? I can't see how I haven't noticed this before, but it's very prominent on my last project.. almost as if the export is by-passing the grade. I had a little root around and people on forums (dated posts) were pointing their fingers at QuickTime, saying that there was a playback bug. So I downloaded VLC, and boom.. the grade was there when played back. But when I upload the very same file to Vimeo/Facebook or played it back on my iPhone.. there was hardly any grade, it was desaturated and flat. Lastly, I dropped the exported/desaturated h.264 file back into premier and onto my time line, and again the colour and grade is visible. So if it is a QuickTime playback issue, why is Vimeo/Facebook giving me the same problem? What is going on here and what do I trust? As a quick solution I had to crank up the grade in Premiere more than usual, just so it was visible in the export, but I can't be doing different grades for different players surely ?? [Moderator note: title modified for clarity of issue]
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