Premiere Pro 21.5.0 Color Management / Override Media Color Space is not working correctly

[Raddles]

This is really annoying and time consuming to deal with.

I'm on a Mac Pro 7,1 and updated to Premiere Pro 2025 with a new project using the new color managment system which is great to use until I save and exit Premiere and then restart it and open the project and my timeline clips that have been color managed with Color/Settings/ Override Media Color Space have resorted back to their raw states even though in each clip the Override Media Color Space option is checked and Hue Preservation is also checked. . I have seen someone else has already also reported this and I'm confirming the issue. Basically I have to go into each clip one by one and reset the Color mangaged profile (Currently its DJI D-Log/D-Gamut) by choosing another profile then re-choosing my desired profile. Then the Input Tone mapping goes back to Hue Preservation setting goes back to 

By channel and I have to re enable Hue Preservation for each clip and effectively lose the original Exposiure and Highlight Saturation settings I previously had for each clip. Fortunately I'm currently only working with a 1 minute program but what happens if I'm color grading a one hour edited project and I have to do this for every clip in the timeline. 

Please can you recommend a viable working fix for this until this bug is resolved as currently I'm looking at either not using Premiere's Native Color Managment feature at all or not closing Premiere until my projects have been exported and approved. 

[Rach McIntire]

Hi @Raddles, 

Welcome to the Premiere Pro forums.  Thanks for the message.  Are you able to send a screen grab of your color management settings?  Are you using an adjustment layer?  25.1 still has limited color management please try the beta (current version 25.2) for a richer experience.  

If you have time, please give the team a few more details. See: How do I write a bug report?

[Raddles]

Hi thanks for the reply. Ok so firstly I can't seem to access the 25.2 beta version on my Creative Cloud

I updated Premiere Pro just now but it's still on v 25.1.0 after the update. 

 

Here's my current Color Managment workflow (I've created a test project to illustrate what's going on. 

1. I import some clips into a project and then select them all and choose modify/color/ override Media colorspace and select my appropriate colorspace for that type of media (in this case DJI gamut)

 

Raw inputed D-log image before 'Override Colorspace'

 

 

2. I then go to Color settings for each clip and modify the input tone mapping for this colorspace to

'Hue Preservation.'

 

This is what I expect to see. 

 

3. Then I save the project and exit from Premiere, then re-open Premiere and the project and the files have gone back to their raw state even though all settings have been preserved. 

 

 

 

4. So then I have to go to color settings for each clip and change 'Override Colorspace' to another profile, then back to the one I need and then re-enable 'Input tonemapping - Hue Preservation' all over again. 

 

5. This process again does not save the color mapping as it should. 

[trevora3]

I saw this recently on a project, with Sony Slog3.Gamut3.cine files needing to have colour space manually set - it was intermittent (some clips reset to 'use file', others didn't).

It *seemed* to be related to source files being in a different project in the production than the sequence but I didn't get to the bottom of it.

[Rach McIntire]

Hi @Raddles,

If you open the Creative Cloud App and choose Apps from the side menu, Beta options should be the second tab.  The area you were looking in is just for changing release versions.

Thanks for all those screengrabs as well.  That makes it easier to see what's going on.  I'll take a closer look.

[Raddles]

Thanks Rach for that tip for finding the Beta versions. I'd never had reason to use a Beta version of an Adobe app  until now. 

So, to confirm, that in Premiere Pro Beta version 25.2, the Color management issue I had before has been resolved. 

Clip Modify/color/ override Media colorspace 

The effect of this setting is now preserved on clips after a save and restart. 

Lumetri Color / Settings

This whole section I now see has been revamped somewhat. The Hue preservation settings I adjusted for each test clip have also been preseved after a save and restart so happy there too.

Cheers for the support. I'll be sticking with this Beta version until Adobe fixes the Color managment issue I had with v25.1 on the next update. 

[trevora3]

It's not necessarily advisable to do production work in the beta. It can catch you out if you hit a deadline at a point they make a breaking change.

So be careful when you accept the beta update if it's working OK for you and you might be under any time pressure.

[Rach McIntire]

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