What is going ON with Media encoder changing things!?
Previously, it screwed up only Specific letters from a mogrt. Now, it's messing up just a Few clips.
This time it's not involving AE at all. And I Think I might have an idea of where the issue is coming from.
Premiere has ben automatically enabling the "Auto Tone Map Media" checkbox between versions.
Honestly, I don't even know what it does other than screw things up. I tried it when it first came out, and it Seemed like it automatically added the correct LUT, only I think maybe it was doing it as an input lut rather than a creative LUT, even though Premiere's documentation Specifically says NOT to do that because Lumetri works top down, so that means you adjust your colors Before adjusting basic corrections and if the input lut causes something to be under/over exposed, you can't get that information back.
So, what's a bug? I have no clue, other than I think it's related to that because I have check the preference off multiple times, and it mysteriously turns itself back on.
Most of the footage, even from the same camera, is fine within the same video. There are probably a few slight shifts, but 2 of the videos became Very washed out.
I rendered the exact same sequence directly from Premiere and it rendered just like my timeline.
Checking the clips > Interpret Footage > Color management > Input LUT = None. -- Use Media Color Space from File: Rec. 709
Which is what all of the other footage, except for the RED footage, is set to.
When I tried out the tone map setting previously, I had the same issue without realizing what had happened, so I decided whatever that setting was doing wasn't a great idea, and turned it off.
It seems like it turns itself on after some of the updates, but again, unsure exactly. I thought there was a setting in the preferences at one point, but now it's only in the sequence options?
I'd actually use it if it just automatically added the correct LUT to Lumetri, if a Lumetri effect didn't already exist, but that doesn't seem to be how it works. It just changes the colors Fairly close to what they should be after the LUT is applied...without telling you which one it chose, or at what point it's doing it? And when I tried it originally, I created a nested sequence, things were fine. I opened premiere, and it applied the auto-tone map twice to every clip I had nested, without providing a way to turn it off (that I could find).
Regardless of my frustration with why we would get half-baked releases from the Adobe dev team; this is one project, renders fine from Premiere, and Some of the clips have color issues when rendering with Media Encoder, while others from the same camera on the same shoot do Not have any issue if I render from premiere. I even closed premiere and opened it, then rendered again for good measure Just in case I had made an error that was only showing up when opened again for some reason, but it rendered fine.
I mentioned mogrts because I had the same issue there. They work and render fine within premiere, but when I sent the render to AME, within text that was set to change to all caps, only a few specific letters ignored that.
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