I'm working on a new iMac Pro, 64gb ram. The project is a 38 min documentary, all colored in Lumetri. The problem is, within the Program Monitor, AND even after export, some of the clips look the way I colored them, and others have a faded look – as if I had added the "faded film" effect to it, even though I didn't. Even more weirdly, it the image in the Program Monitor flickers off and on (faded to normal) even WHILE I'M EDITING. I've tried lots of things. Uninstalling/reinstalling Premiere, trashing preferences, manually deleting all cache files for project, deleting all preview files. Starting a brand new project file and copying over only that sequence. I even duplicated my main sequence (38 min cut), deleted ALL Lumetri effects, and started from scratch coloring a few of the clips, and it started doing it again (faded flickering even while I'm making the adjustments in Lumetri), and then ultimately, it looks like crap after export. But some clips looks great! All the footage I'm working with is from Canon C200 (compressed, h.264 mp4 files, which Premiere really doesn't like). That said, I've finished 8 other projects this last month alone with new problems like this particular one. Another important note is that I have proxy files attached (created within premiere), and the proxies naturally seem to look a bit flatter than the originals, so at first I think maybe Premiere was being confused and switching because the proxies and original even without me toggling the proxy button. But I don't think it's that. Any suggestions are welcome! It's really important that I export a clean cut of this where all the color looks accurate, and I'm afraid this is a bug issue that I won't have any control over.
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