premiere pro and Canon R5C

Are you expecting a "log" look? You can still do that if you want. In the Preferences and Sequence settings, there are now settings for tonemapping, and you can turn them off.

That said, I wouldn't want to stay in the old LUT for normalization workflow myself.

Times are changing ... even in video post. The old practice of log-encoded media being "normalized" to video space via a LUT ... a lookup table ... is just that, an old practice. With limits. For instance, you must match the exposure/contrast of the scene the LUT was built for pretty close or you can get crushed, clipped, or otherwise mangled pixels.

But it was the devil we all worked with. Though never the intent of the camera makers to have anyone ever see a "log" image ... it was just a way to record the most data to file, and the LUTs to normalize it back to a real image.

Now there's a vastly superior method ... tonemapping. Which uses "live" mathematical formulas to take whatever data is in the file, and remap to the chosen color space, with all data within that space for dynamic range and color volume. No clipping or crushing can occur.

"But it's not the same image I got with that LUT I used!"

Well, of course not. But when you first started shooting log-encoded media, you had a huge adjustment to make, learning to work with LUTs to 'normalize' the image.

Now ... if wise, you will take a couple minutes to learn how to work with tonemapped processes, whether in Premiere or other apps. And if you prefer a slightly different contrast gradient, simply build a couple presets in Lumetri and apply those to bins of clips.

You have less chance of mangled media, and actually a better chance of quickly normalizing the image and getting to a preferred look. Quickly.

Neil

This is probably the result of the color management process.

Please check this: https://helpx.adobe.com/premiere-pro/using/color-management.html

Hope this helps.

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