Washed out export

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My short film was color graded with DaVinci and exported as a .MOV file then imported into Pr for the film's assembly. So I know the color graded .MOV file already looked great. But somehow upon exporting the final version from Premiere it loses color and saturation. I know similar subject matter has been posted before but it seemed to do with monitor differences. I never color corrected using Pr in this case. Please help!

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R Neil Haugen

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Especially if you're on a Mac, there could be several things in play here.

Although the first question, is color space ... I assume Rec.709?

And did you use 'standard' Rec.709 for the export, or Resolve's Rec.709-A?

Next, is were you exporting in legal/video range, or full? For proper Rec.709, you must work in legal/video, which you will get in Resolve using the auto settings.

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jessica_6984Author

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Thank you @MyerPj and @R Neil Haugen I'll take a look at both of these options with my friend who's putting it together and report back 🙂

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R Neil Haugen

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If the file was exported from Resolve using the "Rec.709-A" option, that's problematic. As that adds an NCLC tag that the BM dev found would 'trick' the Macs without reference modes into using gamma 2.4 for the display transform.

However, that is actually an "unassigned" tag. And it can go awry in some other software and some QC machines ... so Adobe devs decided not to use it.

:Premiere puts out "standard" Rec.709 files without that 'unassigned' tag added. So Macs without Reference modes, set to HDTV, will display the file a bit lighter in the shadows.

If that might be the issue, and you're on a Mac without Reference modes, try viewing the Premiere export in VLC or Potplayer. As they will refuse the Mac ColorSync control of the display, and will apply typically the correct gamma 2.4 dispay transform.

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MyerPj

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You're on a Mac I bet, however Info needed for a bug report

You'll have to specify some things.

BTW: Can you install the Beta and give it a try there. Some differences in color features are available from 25.1 (assuming that is your version) Beta available thru Creative Cloud app and can run along side shipping version.

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