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mariahadd
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March 18, 2024
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PREMIERE EXPORT BLASTING OUT COLORS. :( OPACITY LAYERS NOT REGISTERING

  • March 18, 2024
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Hi everyone,

 

I spent a long time creating a video that have many opacity and screen layers that when blended together 

look really beautiful. Unfortunately when I export, the colors are blasted super high contrast and get

very hot. The opacity layers lose their subtelty. It looks terrible. I don't know what to do, I've fiddled around with a bunch of different export options. I saw a post about exports becoming dull, but thats not my issue. 

 

I imported the 4k videos straight from my iphone. I don't know much about all the different kinds of video types. 

 

I'd appreciate support!!! 

 

Maria

 

 

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    R Neil Haugen
    R Neil Haugen
    Legend
    March 18, 2024

    Peru Bob is on the right issue ... you don't have proper color management setup in Premiere. All the controls for that are now in the color workspace, Lumetri panel's Settings tab.

     

    Read through what he links. The main things are ...

    • auto detect log and auto tonemapping are interactive and for most purposes both should be 'on'.
    • set the sequence color space to what you want to have for export.
    • use only export presets with color space matching your sequence. HLG and PQ presets are only used with respectively HLG or PQ sequences!
    • display color management and on Macs, extended dynamic range should be on.

     

    Users also can set the viewer display gamma now for the Program monitor. Pick your poison!

    • Most colorists will always set the display for Rec.709/SDR video to broadcast/gamma 2.4 as that is what all professional media is produced to.
    • Some Mac users get weirded out because of the strange Apple use of the camera display tranform of 1.96 as the display transform ... which for Rec.709 is actually specified as gamma 2.4. So when QuickTime Player shows that lighter image, they cringe. For that, you can set the viewer gamma to QuickTime/1.96 so it "works" on similar Macs.
    • Some user try to split the difference and set viewer gamma to "web/2.2" ... whatever.
    Everyone's mileage always varies ...
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      mariahaddAuthor
      Participant
      March 20, 2024

      Thank you both so much for this support. What worked was converting all my videos to rec.709 mixed with Neil's suggestion on what to click in the lumetri color settings panel.

       

      Now the issue is my video looks MUCH better, but it is definitely not a match to my timeline. It's dull, and in my timeline

      it seems to play a lot more smoothly. I'm not sure what export settings to choose. I exported as a HEVC file through media encoder with maximum render settings. I have to wait several hours for it to render before I can figure out if the colors matched because the preview does not, making this process take a very long time. 

       

      Any suggestions on the export settings now that the settings within premiere seem to be working?

       

      Thank you!!!

       

      Maria

      R Neil Haugen
      R Neil Haugen
      Legend
      March 20, 2024

      You've got me puzzled there. 

       

      You say the video and the timeline don't match. Is that the exported video, or the 'original' clip? If exported, how are you viewing it? On a Mac, perhaps? And what are your viewer gamma settings in Premiere?

       

      Which export preset are you using? Does the color space of the preset match the sequence?

       

       

      Everyone's mileage always varies ...
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