Farb Export Problem Premiere Pro auf MacBook Pro

Working on a Mac without Reference modes. That’s the problem.

Apple chose to use the wrong display transform for Rec.709 video but only on Macs without Reference modes set to HDTV. What your Mac ColorSync color management is doing, if you view in QuickTime Player, Chrome, or Safari! ... is using a display transform of essentially gamma 1.96.

If you have the Reference mode option and set to HDTV, you do get the proper display transform of (essentially) gamma 2.4. The Rec.709 standards state the correct display transform for Rec.709 video is essentially gamma 2.4.

That is what is used be nearly all screens except for your Mac without Reference modes. There is no fix, just ... options.

View the same video in VLC or Potplayer or Firefox and you will probably see the same darker (correct) image on that Mac. So you see the issue then? Which do you care about?

If only Macs without Reference modes, set your viewer gamma in Premiere to 1.96, and those with screens like yours will see the same image ... although all of us on all other screens will see a much darker, oversaturated image.

If only the general screen, then set your viewer gamma according to your room’s brightness while grading! Most people get that wrong. The specs clearly specify using gamma 2.4 for the display transform while grading but only in the nearly blackened proper grading suite setup.

If you are grading in normal room lighting, by the specs! ... the viewer gamma should be set to gamma 2.2.

Either way, VLC, Potplayer, Firefox on your Mac and the other screens will see the image kinda like you expect. But Macs without Reference modes will see the lighter image.

That said, every screen out there is different from every other screen! There is no uniformity in manufacturing tolerances nor OS/app and user-choice settings possible. Colorists are taught that you setup a standard by-spec environment in order to be as close to middle-ground as possible, and then let it go.

Because ... no one will ever, by any deliverable method whether broadcast/streaming, theatrical, DVD/BluRay or web, see exactly what you saw while grading. It is not physically possible.

Might want to read this:

Color management in Premiere Pro