Gamma shift when using media players or YouTube

[James Paulley]

I have my colour workflow set to Rec.709 Gamma 2.4 accross the board. So Photoshop, AE, Premiere are all set to the same profile. Everything looks fine in Adobe's apps. I can play the files back in Premiere and as long as I have the Lumetri Colour viewer gamma option set to Gamma 2.4, they look fine. Same in AE, they look fine. When I view the files in various media players and on YouTube, the brightness is shifting. What is the best approach here? Should I be rendering a final version out with a gamma shift for uploading to YouTube? Would this be done by setting an output profile to sRGB Gamma 2.1 in the render module? I've seen people using a weird QuickTime Gamma LUT too. What a headache! I just want to upload videos to YouTube and have them look the same as what I can see in Creative Suite. I'm not overly technical so I'm just after some simple, practical advice. Thank you!

[Warren Heaton]

For YouTube and social media, you want to be using sRGB IEC61966-2.1 under File > Project Settings > Color.

On the Premiere Pro side, make sure that the Viewer Gamma is set to 2.2 Web.  If needed, override Source Clip Media Color Space to sRGB.

A low-key picture quality check is to upload your exported video to FrameIO (included with our Adobe subscription) and check the playback on an iPad before publishing it elsewhere.