Premiere Pro Beta: LUTs Appearing Oversaturated and Unnatural – Need Help!

[Nicholas289848475amx]

Hi everyone,

I’m having some crazy issues with Premiere Pro Beta, and I’m hoping someone here might have some advice or has encountered something similar.

I’ve been using a set of LUTs that I bought from a YouTuber (Stalman). They’ve been working perfectly in the standard version of Premiere Pro, with no issues at all. They were working fine on PP Beta until this week and any LUT I apply is coming out way oversaturated. The colours just don’t look right—they’re really not organic, and the final result looks completely off.

Unfortunately, because I’ve already started working on this project in the Beta version, I can’t roll back to the regular Premiere Pro without losing progress since the project file won’t open in the older version.

Yo you can see the oversaturation and colour shift that’s happening. No adjustment to Lumetri. Just LUT applied?!

Has anyone else encountered this issue with LUTs in the Premiere Pro Beta? Or does anyone have any suggestions on how I might be able to fix this? I’m really stuck here and would appreciate any advice.

Thanks in advance for your help!

[Fergus H]

Hi @Nicholas289848475amx , 

You might be seeing the impact of changes we've made to color management in Premiere Pr. Please try this and let me know if it helps: 

1. Open the project you're working on. 

2. In the Project panel, select the sequence you're seeing the issue with, then go to Sequence > Sequence Settings. 

3. Go to the Color Management tab and under the Color Setup menu, choose Disable Color Management. 

Regards,

Fergus

[Nicholas289848475amx]

Hi Fergus,

Fixed!

Thanks for your quick response here. Very much appreciated. Will share with my colleagues.

Have a great day!

Nick

[Fergus H]

Great! I'm glad this fixed it. 

What's happening here is that you're using a LUT to transform your log footage into the color space of the project but the recent beta of Premiere Pro (which added new color management support) is also automatically tranforming log to the project's color space. 

This can also affect a project created in Premiere Pro v24 or earlier that is then opened in the beta of Premiere Pro v25. In a future beta of Premiere Pro v25, we plan to detect when a LUT has been used (or you've used Lumetri's controls to tweak the log footage) and behave correctly, so you won't get the "double LUT" look. 

Here is the beta post on the new color management system in Premiere Pro v25: https://community.adobe.com/t5/premiere-pro-beta-discussions/now-in-beta-dramatically-updated-color-...

Regards,

Fergus

[Hannah24073829j8lb]

Thanks. I had this problem too. Great I found this and it was fixed so quickly.