Premiere changing the exposure on iPhone footage on Timeline and in Export

Question

I shoot a lot on my iPhone 12 Pro Max and when I place the footage onto the timeline the colour flattens. It's bright and nicely lit in the Source but then flat and dark in the timeline. AFter I go to the trouble of upping the exposure, when I export it the footage is then so blown out skin tones are yellow and neon.

This was not a problem before the cloud update. How do I stop this from happening?

R Neil Haugen · Answer

The Premiere 2022 color system was completely rebuilt, including the default preferences.

Prior to this version, Premiere was totaly a Rec.709/SDR application. It had been given "the ability to work with HDR in HLG or PQ by using over-range values". But the basis was Rec.709.

Not any more ... it's completely color space agnostic. And the defaults have changed so that clips with the HLG color space are being displayed as an HDR clip, without being transformed into the old SDR/Rec.709 smaller space.

I've got a couple FAQs for the forum, giving the changes, how to work with them, and the problems still remaining in the first one. The second is for those using HDR, how to set monitors in Pr2022 as that has also changed.

Basically, you need to select those clips in the Project panel bin, right-click, Modify/Interpret Footage, and use the option to Override to Rec.709.

Then make sure your Sequence Settings dialog shows the sequence as set to Rec.709. And export in standard presets.

Of course if you go into your phone's settings, and tell it NOT to export in HLG, but in Rec.709, you won't have this problem to begin with.

Neil

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