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oscarl98578657
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Oct 13, 2026 4:59 AM UTC
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UNACCEPTABLE: HDR FOOTAGE SCREWED UP!

I’ve paid thousands of dollars on Premiere and I can’t get the colors right when editing footage from my iphone in HDR. I’ve tried all solutions online: different color profiles, settings, different LUT filters. And still the Iphone footage gets exported with a completely different color.

 

Capcut does it in two clicks. Wtf Adobe? This is completely unacceptable! Please fix your software ASAP! 

This is especially embarrassing because the video looks fine on Premiere’s preview. Then looks fine on Premiere’s export preview. And then the final file is screwed. 

I’ve been editing for almost 20 years and this is the most annoying Premiere issue. 

PLEASE FIX!!

I’ll post every day till you fix it

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    oscarl98578657Author
    Participant
    Nov 1, 2026 7:03 PM UTC

    ​@Amy :-D 

    I have a video shot on Iphone 17. It uses Cinematic Mode. And it’s in 4k. I use default Iphone settings.

     

    I import the file into Premiere, do a bunch of edits. And then it shows with different colors on Premiere Program Monitor. And when exporting, it shows even different colors.

    I tried changing the Color Management, and a bunch of online tutorials. I even tried different LUTs, but nothing works.

     

    Why can’t Premiere just keep the original color settings? As simple as that.

    Again, this is so easy on Capcut. You export the file and it keeps the original color.

     

    R Neil Haugen You really have no idea of what good user experience is, huh?

     

    ​@Amy the Stuv will I have to continue using Capcut? Unacceptable for such an expensive product as Premiere!

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      R Neil Haugen
      R Neil Haugen
      Legend
      Nov 1, 2026 9:51 PM UTC

      There actually are a couple settings that would have done with only a couple clickes, exactly what you wanted. But there are a ton of options, and I’m guessing you didn’t go to the online help which can really help with your trouble.

      Why is Premiere intentially not like Capcut? Nor is Resolve or Avid any more alike to Capcut. Premiere, Resolve, and Avid were designed for professional users. And have different underlying espectations of user knowledge base.

      Prosumer apps assume the user knows nothing or very little, and are intentionally setup to keep the user from doing bad stuff. Which also means the user can’t choose much of what the apps do. Especially on complex things like color management, the prosumer apps make choices and hide everything else from the user.

      So there is always a shock for new users to the pro NLE and other video post apps … because they are not designed around doing everything for the user.  Why?

      Because a professional wants total control. Of everything. It’s ok to have some things sorta automated, but we do not want that as the auto-everything default.

      Premiere used to have far fewer color management options … back when SDR/Rec.709 was the only game in town. But now professional users need to use media of quite an amazing array of camera/device color spaces and codecs … mixed with other things from all over Creation … and then output maybe to two different color spaces/dynamic range needs.

      So … the user needs total control of the entire color management pipeline, front to back. And it is the same in Avid and Resolve.

      I am totally sympathetic to someone coming into such a complex thing as color management without any previous experience, and happy to help anyone get things sorted for their wants and needs.

      But to do that I would need to know 1) what your media is in detail … color space/dynamic range, if in a log or RAW form, made by what device … and 2) what your monitor situation is in detail … and what you want to end up with, and where it’s going.

      With that we can get you going right away.

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      R Neil Haugen
      R Neil Haugen
      Legend
      Oct 13, 2026 6:04 PM UTC

      Apparently you are not knowledgeable on using the color management of Premiere as that can handle most HLG/PQ HDR footage quite well … if you tell it what you want it to do. 

       

      Capcut assumes you only want one thing. And that’s all it can do.

       

      Premiere can do a ton of things, from auto-adjusting HLG/PQ to Rec.709, or to either HLG or PQ, or do absolutely nothing, passing on “original data” at export. So log files are still log on export.

       

      But as it has so many options, it does not assume you ONLY want X. You need to set the options to do what you want.

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      Amy the Stuv
      Community Manager
      Amy the StuvCommunity Manager
      Community Manager
      Oct 13, 2026 12:49 PM UTC

      Hello ​@oscarl98578657 

      Welcome to the Premiere Forums! We need a little more information to understand the issue. It could help if you could provide the information in  How do I write a bug report? Are you viewing it in Quicktime Player on a Mac, for instance? Have you looked at the output in VLC player? It could also help if you provided specific output settings and color profiles you already tested.

      Hope to help,

      Amy

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