Premiere Pro exporting video way darker than intended

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March 30, 2021
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Premiere Pro suddenly (as from yesterday, March 30) started exporting my videos WAY darker than what I chose to (examples attached).
And I know this difference was not supposed to happen since I had exported this same video before and the export looked just like what I saw in the Program Monitor when editing.

I tried so many fixes:
- updating Premiere/After Effects/Encoder
- changing Color Space/Management Display in all of them
- Hardware vs. Software encoding, as I saw this suggestion in similar posts in this forum

...to no avail.

Software encoding gave me an export a tiny bit better, but still way darker than what it was supposed to be.
This is very frustrating considering I have many videos to export to clients in the next few days.

I spent my whole day yesterday searching for fixes here and in other places but no solution yet.

Does someone know what might be happening?
Thanks.

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Jonah Lee Walker

Inspiring

Have you tried checking the Display Color Management (Reguires GPU acceleration) in the general preferences. This should use the color of the P3 display to display a more accurate color on that display. Now I wouldn't trust it like I would trust a color balanced external display witha BlackMagic or AJA card, but it might help.

- Jonah Lee WalkerVideo Editor, Colorist, Motion Graphics Artist

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andre_tasAuthor

Participating Frequently

Yes, exporting with or without this option checked gives me the same results.

Same thing for trying different Export Settings.

Jonah Lee Walker

Inspiring

Yea it wouldn't do anything for export, just supposed to bring the display closer to correct (if your display is set correclty or as correctly as a P3 display can be set).

And software encoder should be better quality, but slower.

What are the timeline settings? What are you rendering as? Have you tried exporting a full rez versions?

Also have you tried color balancing your display? Maybe it is off as well.

- Jonah Lee WalkerVideo Editor, Colorist, Motion Graphics Artist

Kevin-Monahan

Community Manager

Hi Andre,

Are you on a P3 Mac screen? Are you evaluating color in QuickTime?

Thanks,.
Kevin

Kevin Monahan - Sr. Community & Engagement Strategist – Pro Video and Audio

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andre_tasAuthor

Participating Frequently

Kevin,

My Display Color Setting is set as "Color LCD", which according to this article (https://larryjordan.com/articles/configure-the-new-macbook-pro-to-p3-color-space/ ) is P3.
So I guess I'm on a P3 Mac Screen, right?

I have a second monitor as well (Samsung), and the export looks darker on both monitors.

I previewed the export in multiple ways: Mac preview, VLC, QuickTime and reimporting to PP.

Jonah Lee Walker

Inspiring

And what are you editing on, and what are you watching the export on? The Premeire Gammas Shift is a Mac issue and is ususally washed out not darker.

Have you tried different export settings?

- Jonah Lee WalkerVideo Editor, Colorist, Motion Graphics Artist

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basil1891

Inspiring

How do you check the export result, by reimport to PP? Or external player? Videos exported before the issue, do they look Ok? Did you updated GPU driver recently (or just modified settings in any way) ? Also, I'd carefully recheck all options on the export page, like levels/color profiles/HDR/video limiter