Skip to main content
H
Howard Simcox
Participant
June 10, 2021
Question

Weird color shift Premiere Elements 2019

  • June 10, 2021
  • 1 reply
  • 648 views

Really frustrated. I shot a series of talking head videos this weekend on a Sony ZV1 for use on my website. Once the lighting was set, I started and stopped the camera with no setting changes.

To edit, I moved all the raw clips (MP4's) off the memory card to my Dell. I opened up Premiere Elements 2019 and got to work editing my three videos. Finished first and second and am happy with the results.

But this am, I came in to work on the third video. As is typical, I name the project in Premiere Elements, (say Video 3), then grab the raw MP4 clip I want and drop it into the Project Assets bin. But today, when I then move the clip down to the video timeline to begin editing, the tint/saturation has gone crazy and I’m extremely red in the face with a visible haze around me. I can’t fix it. I have made no setting changes to Elements since I successfully edited video 2. The raw MP4 clip displays with perfectly normal color, so something is happening once it gets moved over to Elements. I did a system restore to a date last week to see if it was some type of a driver update yesterday that made things wonky, but no success.

I have attached screenshots of the original MP4 and the image once its appears on the timeline.

Anyone?  Thanks, Howard

This topic has been closed for replies.

1 reply

Ann Bens
Community Expert
Ann BensCommunity Expert
Community Expert
June 10, 2021

If you have hardware acceleration checked: turn that off. See how that goes.

 

On a side note: files generated by the Sony are called source files.

Raw files are quite different.

H
Howard SimcoxAuthor
Participant
June 10, 2021

Thank you Ann, but my Dell, per my research has one of the newer Nvidia graphics cards that does not allow any disabling of the hardware acceleration mode.  

B
Community Expert
Bill SpragueCommunity Expert
Community Expert
June 11, 2021

I think Ann may be suggesting you turn it off in Premiere Elements preferences.  Go to Edit > Preferences > General.  

 

Another possible issue is a mismatch between your project settings and your source footage.  What you see during editing is your computer's best effort at a real time preview.  If projects settings are not right, you could have compromised preview quality.

Terms & ConditionsAccessibility statement
Using the community Terms of use Privacy Cookie preferences Do not sell or share my personal information ad choicesAdChoices