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aTomician
aTomician
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October 3, 2022
Question

Premiere Pro renders wrong the color for vector graphics from creative cloud libraries

  • October 3, 2022
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I've always had this problem and had to find a workaround but it's becoming more of a pain.  When I drag vector graphics from CC libraries into a Premiere Pro timeline, the color is never accurate and I don't know why.  Sometimes it isn't always obvious but it's almost always incorrect.

 

In Illustrator, I have a red hexagon filled with the color #e30513.

The document color mode is RGB.

In Edit > Color Settings I have tried different RGB color spaces:

  • Rec.709 Gamma 2.4
  • sRGB IEC61966
  • Adobe RGB
  • Rec.709 PQ

 

I then add this to CC Libraries, go to Premiere Pro and drag it into a timeline.

In Premiere Pro, the hexagon is the right color in the Libraries panel but in the timeline it looks more pink then red.  I can't get the file to be the right color on the timeline!

 

 

Something else very confusing about this is that After Effects interprets the color correctly.  If I simply duplicate the graphic, right click, and "replace with After Effects composition", the color of the AE comp updates to the correct color as soon as it's saved in AE.  See the comparison difference in the second screenshot below.  Left side is Illustrator file, right side is Illustrator file converted to AE composition.

 

Please can anyone help me fix this?  Really annoying, I either have to convert all graphics to AE compositions or render them to a raster file - either way it limits editing the file at a future date.

 

EDIT: a small update for the sake of clarity.  I've detailed above that using the file from Creative Cloud causes this effect.  I've imported a Illustrator file manually, not through CC libraries and it has the same effect so the problem clearly lies with the AI file and not the CC libraries. 

 

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    Fabio22557433ezjg
    Known Participant
    February 12, 2025

    Hey @aTomician, did you ever found a solution to this? Happened to me in the past and I initially thought I was missing something, but today after stumbling on this again and looking up this thread I realized I have the exact same issue placing .AI files into Premiere:

    • Tried changing color profile on the Illustrator file from sRGB to Rec.709
    • Tried saving with or without embedded ICC profile
    • Tried interpreting the footage in different ways on Premiere, from Rec.709 to sRGB and others

    Nothing really worked, and it's not even a subtle difference, very saturated colors are completely washed out. Exporting a .PNG and importing that actually interprets the color correctly, and also After Effects actually interprets colors correctly and it's perfectly on point between the .AI and the .PNG.

    R Neil Haugen
    R Neil Haugen
    Legend
    February 12, 2025

    What's the total set of color management settings you're using in Premiere? Top to bottom, the entire Settings tab of Lumetri ... project through sequence CM. Screengrabs are fastest of course.

    Everyone's mileage always varies ...
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    Fabio22557433ezjg
    Known Participant
    February 12, 2025

    For the sake of starting fresh (and not violating a client's non disclosure agreements whose logo is indeed red) I'm creating a new project named Test, with a new sequence named Test:

    Here is the color management tab of the new sequence:

    And here is the Settings tab in the Lumetri panel, which should match what we see above:

    Let's create a new #FF0000 color matte in Premiere:

    Drag into the newly created Test sequence and scale it down 50%. Here's how it looks:

    Now let's open up a new Illustrator file, 3840x2160 sRGB canvas, and let's create a #FF0000 circle in the corner:

    Let's assign a Rec.709 color profile for good measure:

    Let's save the .AI file and make sure to embed the ICC profile:

    Now let's also export a .PNG from the same canvas. Notice how there's no option to embed the profile here:

    Let's bring everything into Premiere, rotate the .PNG 180°, and see the colors we get:

    Here is how the "Modify > Color..." looks like for the .AI file:

    Before you shout at me that I missed something in the above steps, there are the things I tried in order of appearance from top screenshots to bottom (let's make clear I don't usually work by toggling stuff on or off until things work, but when they don't you try to troubleshoot everything you can):

    • Switching up color spaces in composition
    • Toggling "Auto Tone Map Media" in composition color tab or Lumetri settings tab
    • Trying sRGB, Rec.709 Gamma 2.4, Rec.709 PQ or any other color profile that could make sense in Illustrator
    • Tried exporting the .AI without toggling the "Embed ICC Profile", or even the "Create PDF compatible file" or "Use compression" to see if they were affecting color in the saved file
    • Tried interpreting the .AI with "Modify > Color..." using different color spaces, some get close but none is a perfect match like the .PNG (which by the way is interpreted with the standard, working space Rec.709)
    • A combination of most of the settings cited above just to see if I could get it working

    As previously mentioned, doing the same exact thing importing things in After Effects just works out of the box, in both Rec.709 or sRGB color spaces for both Illustrator or After Effects. As of today I never managed to actually import an .AI file (usually logos) with very simple colors and have it match elements in my comps.

     

    So am I missing something?

    Ann Bens
    Community Expert
    Ann BensCommunity Expert
    Community Expert
    October 3, 2022

    Set MPE hardware to software and see if that makes a difference.

    aTomician
    aTomicianAuthor
    Inspiring
    October 3, 2022

    Thanks for the reply Ann, which application do I set this in?

     

    Regards, aTomician
    Peru Bob
    Community Expert
    Peru BobCommunity Expert
    Community Expert
    October 3, 2022

    Premiere Pro.

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