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Colours completely change when exporting HEVC h265 sequence to a mp4 h264 file

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October 13, 2021
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Hello,

HEVC (h265) is becoming a pretty common format now which I have to work with in Premiere. I receive it from drones, from various Sony cameras like the a7s3, etc - it's great quality and in 10bit 4:2:2 is great for colour grading albeit incredibly CPU intensive.

However, even working online (no proxies) I'm having massive headaches with colours when exporting.

I've tried both the 2 most recent betas of Premiere and am consistently finding the colour profile is wrong.

I've tried playing the exported file (just a standard mp4 h264) in various players and the colours are just night and day different - horribly saturated in a crude way that blows colours; skin tones become burned orange and greens are neon, etc..

See this screenshot of my settings - I suspect "Export Colour Profile" is to blame, but it won't let me change it?! Really annoying and doesn't make sense to me.

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Correct answer eplouie

I'm also having this problem, and I'm wondering if there's any new / easier solutions to this problem with the latest version of Premiere (24.1.0 - Build 85)? I'm in the middle of editing a multicam concert video, and I've got the one camera angle that looks fine on the timeline, but quite hideous whenever I try to render it.

My attempts to fix this camera shot with "Lumetri Color" have not been successful.

R Neil Haugen

Legend

Given that's iPhone media, I'd go ahead and set auto detect log and auto tonemap to on. Just ... 'cause.

What's your OS and ... any screen calibration? For most users, setting the Display color management on is wise also.

Everyone's mileage always varies ...

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eplouie

Inspiring

OK, I just did a little test, and based on the sample, it looks like it'll work OK. I'm running Sonoma - 14.1.12.

thanks!

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eplouieCorrect answer

Inspiring

I'm also having this problem, and I'm wondering if there's any new / easier solutions to this problem with the latest version of Premiere (24.1.0 - Build 85)? I'm in the middle of editing a multicam concert video, and I've got the one camera angle that looks fine on the timeline, but quite hideous whenever I try to render it.

My attempts to fix this camera shot with "Lumetri Color" have not been successful.

R Neil Haugen

Legend

Tell us exactly what media you've got, and what you want to do with it, we can give the full instructions on how. Using 'part' of the color management controls without having everything set correctly is the most common problem, and that's easy enough to fix.

And given the new settings are ... new, right? ... something that we've all had to learn.

Everyone's mileage always varies ...

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eplouie

Inspiring

Again, it's multicam concert video I'm assembling in Premiere and the footage from one of the cameras (an iPhone 14) looks fine until I try to render it, and then it looks a weird drug flashback from a low-budget movie. Other than color correction, i'm not familiar with color management tools.

Tell us exactly what media you've got, and what you want to do with it, we can give the full instructions on how. Using 'part' of the color management controls without having everything set correctly is the most common problem, and that's easy enough to fix.

And given the new settings are ... new, right? ... something that we've all had to learn.

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boomtina4965713

Participant

Best quick workaround I found is Open in Quicktime Player > Export (select size) > Change drop down menu option to H.264. Luckily I only had three clips so didn't need a queue. FWIW I tried all the Interpret Footage settings in Premiere and for my footage the Color Space Override to Rec.2020 worked okay but the files themselves were acting buggy on my machine so I felt better doing a source file conversion. Hope that helps someone!

synthetick

Community Expert

This occurs because in the export settings Premiere Pro won't let you select the Export Color Space that matches your sequence (Rec. 2100 HLG) when exporting to H.264. It is set to Rec.709 and can't be changed. Same issue with Media Encoder. The workaround that I used was to export to a Quicktime Pro Res 422 HQ, select Rec. 2100 HLG as my Export Color Space. Then I used Apple Compressor to encode to H.264.

R Neil Haugen

Legend

It's pretty simple: don't use the standard SDR presets for HDR exports!

Use one of the presets designed for MP4/HLG ... and you can do the HLG export in the H.264 format.

Wanna go "match source - HLG" ... just choose that preset to start.

Neil

Everyone's mileage always varies ...

lfleggAuthor

Inspiring

Hang on... I need to be able to use Premiere to ingest various types of videos and output them to the format I need. No good delivering a HDR file to a client who needs SDR. Premiere needs to simply convert without destroying the colours. Other editing software does this no problem.

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noahweyenberg

Inspiring

Soooo, did this ever get solved? Can't figure out why my HEVC (H.265) exporting format is making the video look way more saturated and the whites are popping out like a soar thumb.

R Neil Haugen

Legend

What is the color space of the file? And is it only with HEVC, and not say with H.264 or ProRes?

Neil

Everyone's mileage always varies ...

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abhishekkapoor

Adobe Employee

Hi lflegg,

You can change the ouput color space after changing the profile to Main 10. with H.264 you will get software encode for Main 10 (H264 10).

With Premiere Pro 22.1.1 Beta we have also added Hardware encode support for HEVC 10 bit Media. You can also test with HEVC encode.

Regards

Abhishek

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emmap9318889

Inspiring

Hey @abhishekkapoor my footage is still looking funky in PP Beta, any ideas?

R Neil Haugen

Legend

Emma,

Please help everyone check out what's going on with this. We need to know the source of the media, and the color space. Check the Properties for the clips in Premiere, and it's a good ideal to also check the video header of the file with the free utility app MediaInfo ... download/install, and when you've got the icon on your desktop, simply drag/drop a clip from Finder/Explorer on top of the icon.

MediaInfo will open, go to that app's "Tree" view, and give us a screen grab of the video data like this:

Also, we need to know what the Sequence color space is set to, so check for that in your Sequence settings dialog and give that information also.

Neil

Everyone's mileage always varies ...

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emmap9318889

Inspiring

Hey @lflegg any updates on what worked/didn't work for you with this? I'm having some issues with the color of my H.265 footage as well. For me it's showing up as I'm grading F-Log footage...

R Neil Haugen

Legend

What is your timeline color space?

Neil

Everyone's mileage always varies ...

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