Color and light altered in imported files

[lucyeden]

I imported files from my iPhone for a project and the footage is washed out and tinted green. I figured it was an issue with interpreting the iPhone footage and just went through and edited to colors as best I could.

But upon exporting, the colors altered again and reverted back to the normal appearance of the footage (but with the color edits I applied so now it's totally off). Also, I added a still png file at one point and that tinted green as well so that means its not just the iPhone footage.

And on top of that, if I remove the color settings I added in premier and export as is, it become wayyy over exposed in the exported file. Whats going on?! Please help!

I attached some images to show what is happening:

1 = how fottage should appear and how it is on my phone 

2 = how it displays in premiere

[Averdahl]

Whats going on?! Please help!

By @lucyeden

This is the new color management in Premiere Pro. Carl Soule at Adobe created two videos that explain everything you need and must know. Well spent minutes to look at:

• Premiere Pro V22 - Understanding Color Spaces, HDR, and what that might mean to you - YouTube
• Understanding Color and HDR in Premiere - Update Jan 2023 - YouTube

[lucyeden · Accepted solution]

Thank you for those videos!! The second one finally got me a solution by doing this: 

1. Download this custom LUT: https://bryanadamc.gumroad.com/l/hdrconversionlut

2. Set sequence working color space by going to Sequence > Sequence Settings and choose Rec 2100 for the working color space

3. Select all used footage in the project panel and right click and click Modify > Interperet footage and at the bottom set the color space override to Rec 2020. Then under Input LUT, choose 'Add LUTs' from the dropdown and import that custom LUT I mentioned earlier

4. Under Premiere Pro > Preferences > General, be sure the three check boxed shown in the attached image are on.

That finally got it right! (And this is what specifically worked when using iPhone HDR footage) 

[R Neil Haugen]

Basic Color Management 101. Which we all have to learn now.

You must set clips to the working color space of the sequence, or set the sequence working color space to match the clips.

For Rec.709/SDR sequence work, select one or more HLG color space clips in the Project panel.

Right-click/Modify/Interpret Footage.

Set the Override-to option to Rec.709.

Redo the color work on the sequence.

Use only export presets matched to the sequence working color space.

Neil