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Ragert0101
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December 5, 2021
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Disturbed colors when viewing on oled screens

  • December 5, 2021
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Hi, I have been making a 30 min short film which is now completed. I have exported the film and it looks normal when viewing on LCD screens, however when viewing on oled and AMOLED screens it doesn't. The film has a lumetri color grade on with a slight blue shadow tint. When viewing on oled/amoled screens this blue shadow tint looks extremely overdone, all the information in the shadows is lost. It's basically just showing the color blue and nothing else in the shadows. On top of that, the overall exposure gets increased a significant bit aswell on some parts of the film. I have tried exporting in h.264, h.265 and Avi. I've also tried changing some export settings for each format but it makes no difference.

 

Could the problem be the color grade? Because the stock footage looks normal on oled/amoled screens.

 

I've tried viewing on three "non LCD" screens, one Samsung amoled phone, one Samsung QLED tv and lastly an iphone with an oled screen.

Strangely, on the iphone it looked fine which makes me wonder if the issue could be related to Samsung screens?

 

Has anybody experienced something similar?

Thankfull for any help!

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Correct answer R Neil Haugen

Unfortunately, I couldn't tell anything from that screenshot.

 

And I've not heard any issue like this. So ... what is your project? Standard SDR in Rec.709, or are you trying to work in HDR with either HLG or PQ? What is your OS?

 

If SDR/Rec.709, what is your monitor set to? For color management ... I hope it's sRGB and the Rec.709 option, if you have one. And that you don't have the monitor pumped way too bright.

 

Do you have the Display Color Management option turned on within Premiere?

 

And how are you checking the image on the other screens?

 

Neil

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Andy 1968
Inspiring
December 5, 2021

Is the LCD screen a computer monitor? DSLR cameras and even the Sony A7 III are designed for playback on broadcast compliant hardware (your TV) not a computer screen. Computer screens can vary. Keep in mind no camera or video editing software is design to playback on an iPhone or even a 27" inch iMac using Quicktime. I am not saying it cannot look OK using Quicktime. That being said I know they have made changes to the color space in the new version of Premiere Pro but Premiere Pro is capable of accurate color correction as seen in the video below. 

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Ragert0101Author
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December 8, 2021

Hi 

Yes that's true that you should expect some variations but this problem is so dramatic it cannot just be that. It really looks absolutley terrible.

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R Neil HaugenCorrect answer
Legend
December 5, 2021

Unfortunately, I couldn't tell anything from that screenshot.

 

And I've not heard any issue like this. So ... what is your project? Standard SDR in Rec.709, or are you trying to work in HDR with either HLG or PQ? What is your OS?

 

If SDR/Rec.709, what is your monitor set to? For color management ... I hope it's sRGB and the Rec.709 option, if you have one. And that you don't have the monitor pumped way too bright.

 

Do you have the Display Color Management option turned on within Premiere?

 

And how are you checking the image on the other screens?

 

Neil

Everyone's mileage always varies ...
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Ragert0101Author
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December 8, 2021

Thanks for the reply.

My project is SDR in Rec. 709.

I'm running on Windows 10.

My monitor brightness is 75% so that should not be a problem. The monitor is nothing fancy at all so there are no options about sRGB or rec.709, but according to the internet it's capable of around 95% sRGB. The model is a samsung s27d390h.

 

As for premiere, I don't have the display color managment turned on. I just tried it and it basiclly just made the whole image darker.

 

For checking on other screens i have just put the file on a usb stick and plugged it in to the tv/computer/phone.

 

I'm showing the film in a cinema on saturday so really hope it will look fine...

This image clearly shows the problem.

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Ragert0101Author
Participant
December 5, 2021

Edit: i now see that the screenshot i posted does not show the issue. Strange because I screenshotted on an amoled screen where the issue was clearly visible.

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