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José Miguel31240889d83i
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November 14, 2023
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Color change in exported file

  • November 14, 2023
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Hi, I'm new to video editing and I'm having an issue with Premiere. I selected rec2100 PQ as the working color space. Everything looks fine in the preview video when editing, but when I export the video is much brighter and saturated. I don't know if I'm doing something wrong on the export settings or somewhere else, honestly. Can someone please help? I've sent a few pictures of my settings and the exported video vs what I see in Premiere. Thank you!

 

 

 

 

 

 

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    Correct answer Shebbe

    Okok. Just for me to understand, why is the display showing correct colors in premiere? And knowing professional HDR color grading monitors are VERY expensive, is there any monitor under 1000$ i can use to start? Thanks a lot!


    Your display is not showing "correct" colors. It is simply showing the color values as is within the capabilities of your display. The unaltered HDR data looks very flat similar to a log profile from a camera. You probably took that image as is and made adjustments based on that. When it would display as it should be on an HDR monitor, it would look very colorful already. This is partially why after export it looks super saturated and bright because the video player will do a basic conversion from that HDR video back to SDR for your display.

    Hope that makes sense. 

    The hard reality is that HDR is quite a technical topic for beginners. You need to know quite a few things to really understand what you're doing. Buying a good reference HDR monitor is out of the question for hobbyists but a display that can produce quite a good result is actually the XDR displays from the MacBook Pros which you just may have already without considering that. But even then, you still need to consider for who you are creating content. If you will watch it back on your HDR OLED TV for example then that's very nice of course. But general content creation is for the majority still SDR because typically more than 90% of users will watch it back on an SDR display.

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    Shebbe
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    ShebbeCommunity Expert
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    November 14, 2023

    If you aren't creating and delivering content in HDR your working space should be Rec.709. If you are delivering HDR, you are probably not viewing the file in HDR afterwards. How are you monitoring the image? What is the display? And what profile/preset is the display using?

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    José Miguel31240889d83iAuthor
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    November 14, 2023

    Hello! Yes, and i know i can at any moment convert the footage to rec709. I am doing it this way because I'd like to have the experience of working for HDR. I though about the display thing, but I assumed that if i see the colors correctly in premiere the display would be alright. I am using the iMac (2019) retina 5k display.

    Shebbe
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    ShebbeCommunity Expert
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    November 14, 2023

    Right, your display is not an HDR display which means what you see inside Premiere Pro is not representable for what your are actually creating. You need to set your working space to Rec.709 and also export that as is.

    Additionally you have to enable Use Display Color Management inside Premiere in order to correctly convert Rec.709 to your P3 display because the iMac cannot be manually set to that color space. If you don't do this your image will look much more saturated inside Premiere compared to once you've exported it.

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