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February 26, 2019
Question

Yellow bar and rendered green bar give noticable different image colors

  • February 26, 2019
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I'm editing some DSLR footage and I noticed something that never really captured my attention before. I have a NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 for its CUDA and it helps me to play the footage perfectly even in full resolution and color corrected with the Lumetri Color panel straight from the timeline while editing. The timeline displays a yellow bar on top. So far so good.

Until... I try to render some clips for smooth playback (some of them have partly an effect or a MOGRT title applied and need rendering) and I noticed once the green bar appeared on top of the timeline the colors changed noticeably, in my case with a slight orange-ish tint. To be clear: for experimenting I also tried different sequence settings and preview settings and mixed them (Arri Cinema, DNX, I-Frame only MPEG, etc...) but the color problem stays the same. In the included samples please take look at the color of the skin and the color of the flag in the back which turns more orange with the rendered version.

Yellow Bar (straight from the timeline):

Green Bar (after rendering a part of the clip on the timeline via Sequence>Render Entire Work Area):

My question now is: how can I apply a correct color adjustment on my timeline if after rendering (and I assume also exporting) my colors will change? And what am I doing wrong? Does anybody have the same issue?

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Peru Bob
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Community Expert
February 27, 2019

My uncalibrated monitor shows that the rendered version is actually less orange.

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March 1, 2019

Finally someone notices. Thanks!

Legend
February 26, 2019

"Variants of this question have been covered to death on this and every other color grading forum. The answer is always the same.  The only way to get a [proper] image you can trust is to run SDI [or HDMI] out to an accurately calibrated reference monitor.  Grading by viewing the image in the GUI just doesn't work."  - Jamie LeJeune

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February 27, 2019

The question is not how to SEE a correct color adjustment. The problem is that AFTER you render footage that has a yellow bar on top (of the timeline) the color changes. The SAME footage has noticeably different colors before (yellow bar) vs. after rendering (green bar)

R Neil Haugen
Legend
February 27, 2019

Like Ann, I see no discernible difference. And by the time Ann has checked them in Ps, she has data also.

I could check with the scopes tomorrow,  but ... what does the Vectorscope YUV show?

Neil

Everyone's mileage always varies ...
Ann Bens
Community Expert
Community Expert
February 26, 2019

Comparing the two images is somewhat difficult as the are not the same frame, but

looks the same to me, even took color samples in Ps. They were nearly identical.