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casual_creation5C52
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May 30, 2025
Question

Farben nach Export stimmen auf anderen Geräten nicht mehr – Premiere Pro + MacBook

  • May 30, 2025
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Ich bearbeite meine Videos mit Premiere Pro auf meinem MacBook. Dort sieht nach dem Color Grading und dem Export alles super aus – die Farben wirken genau so, wie ich sie haben will. Sobald ich das Video aber auf einem anderen Gerät anschaue (z. B. auf einem Fernseher), sehen die Farben ganz anders aus.

Ich möchte aber dass es überall so aussieht, wie ich es auch bearbeitet habe. Was kann ich tun? 

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R Neil Haugen
Legend
May 30, 2025

"You can't fix Gramma's green TV." That's a maxim taught to colorists. 

 

Why?

 

Because no two screens are ever alike. Even top color calibrators cannot take two identical screens, side by side in the same room, calibrated alike, fed the same signal via Decklink, and get identical images on screen.

 

That has been demonstrated numerous times.

 

So the best you can do is correct under tightly controlled working conditions, so that, on the device you grade on, your stuff looks like other pro media on that stuff in Premiere. Then let it go out into the Wild.

 

Let's see ... on Macs, there are the majority that don't have Reference modes. They will give one image of a Rec.709/SDR video in QuickTime Player, a different one in VLC, on that one computer.

 

Why? Because on Macs without Reference Modes set to HDTV, the Apple ColorSync utility will apply a display transform essentially gamma 1.96 if the display app lets it. Which Quicktime Player, Chrom and Safari allow.

 

But VLC doesn't allow ColorSync to touch the image, so it uses the specified Rec.709/Bt.1886 display transform essentially gamma 2.4.  As do nearly all other screens.

 

Macs with Reference modes, when set to HDTV, will also use the gamma 2.4 transform.

 

Now ... every screen out there has differences between it and all other screens, both in manufacture, in hardware and firmware, in user settings, and app settings. That's Life.

 

And doesn't even take into account the differences in perceived image due to ambient light while watching. As the same tablet will show a different 'view' on a park bench at noon and a dark bedroom at night.

 

There is no uniform color view of any image possible. Period.

 

If you have questions about how to setup to grade, ask away. I work for/with/teach pro colorists, and have massive experience in all this arcane color management stuff.

 

Everyone's mileage always varies ...