Premiere export color is decontrasted, or not the same as viewed in Program Montior or Timeline

Question

Premiere renders my final image output with an extremely decontrasted overall look. The sequence settings color management is set to Rec709, the footage itself is C-Log with a complimentary Rec709 conversion.

All settings are correct as far as I am aware in export and color space.
Final export settings are Match Source with 4k output.

The final exported video is on the left, the premiere timeline is on the right.

This seems to be a new issue, prior exports did not have this decontrast happen. I can't handle this kind of mediocrity with this professional software on every new version update guys, please. I've been using Premiere Pro for over 2 years straight. That is over $552 from me to you. I can't play guessing games with professional paid software during 11th hour client work.

Build: Premiere Pro 25.0.0, Windows 10 or Windows 11

Steps: Export any video with sequence settings color management set to Rec.709, Rec709 footage conversion in Lumetri.

R Neil Haugen · Answer

Premiere actually is quite notably solid with color management stuff when all outside parameters are properly set.

So we need to know your system stuff ... the hardware, the media, and the monitor and any settings on the monitor. And your internal color management settings in Premiere.

Give that, I can sort your issue out. First quesion, when re-imported into Premiere, is the image the same? That is a required bit of data, by the way.

What viewing gamma you've set in Premiere could affect this, as could whether you are working with Rec.709 imagery with the camera set to encode in full rather than legal/video levels ... which some camera makers wrongly do at this time.

Or if the monitor is set to full for Rec.709 rather than properly to auto or legal/video.

Setting the camera or the monitor to full rather than legal does not get any more data in or out. Period. The same data is encoded both ways, it's only how it's encoded that is changed. and it mucks up the entire system if set wrong.

And of course if some of the other settings are off in Premiere's extensive new color management controls, you will have issues. So we need to see your entire color management settings tab in the Lumetri panel. With all sections twirled down opened.

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