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Export Color and Brightness Issues

  • July 25, 2022
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I keep having export issues were the export of my project just doesn't look the same as the previews while editing in the timeline (see screenshots). The image I'm seeing in the program monitor in Premiere Pro has more contrast and saturation and when I export the video it looks brighter and washed and lacks saturation. I've looked online and on this forum to find solutions but I can't find one that works for me. When I disable 'Display Color Management' the brightness issue is mostly resolved (the preview in Premiere Pro still has a bit more contrast then the exported video) but the saturation issue keeps persisting. So now I'm compensation while editing, I'm adding a lot of contrast and saturation and by trail and error I finally get the export I want, wich is not the way I want to work. I've attached my export settings.

I'm working on a macbook pro 16" M1 Max 32GB ram 2TB ssd 

Does anyone have a solution for these issues?

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Correct answer R Neil Haugen

So when I import the exported video back into Premiere Pro it looks the same as when I'm editing, but if I open the video with quicktime and hold it over Premiere Pro next to the Program monitor it still looks different... Also, when I take a screenshot of the exported video and import in into Premiere Pro, you can see the difference on the scopes. The video looks like the still I took on all other displays


In Quicktime you are not getting an accurately reproduced image ... especially on a Mac. Their ColorSync color management utility applies a weird 1.96 gamma to Rec.709 media, rather than the 2.4 of normal pro Rec.709.

 

And yes, that is a problem heavily discussed everywhere yet for which there is no one 'solution.' You can't display the same file at two different gammas and get the same image on-screen.

 

Neil

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Ann Bens
Ann Bens
Community Expert
July 25, 2022

Premiere Pro V22 - Understanding Color Spaces, HDR, and what that might mean to you - YouTube

Mindflow
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July 25, 2022

Hi Ann, 

Thanks for your reply and I've watched the video but I don't think you've looked at my issue thoroughly because the video you posted doesn't adress any of the issues I'm having. The video is about HDR footage that looks blown out inside Premiere Pro and how to display the footage in Rec. 709. But my issue isn't that the footage I'm editing looks blown out inside Premiere Pro, when I'm editing in Premiere Pro the footage looks perfectly fine. The issue is when I export, the video looks different than in the Program monitor in Premiere Pro. I'm working with Rec. 709 footage shot in Log. The 'Working Color Space' is also set to Rec. 709. But still, the exported video looks different than the footage in Premiere Pro (look at the screenshots). 

 

 

R Neil Haugen
R Neil Haugen
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July 25, 2022

It's actually the problem Ann referenced.

 

A key point: while some Rec.709/SDR video is encoded in log, ALL HDR video is encoded in log.

 

And Premiere at the current time looks at a lot of log media, and assumes it's meant to be HLG. Hybrid log gamma, right? A form of HDR.

 

So yes, Ann's comments and reference are spot-on. Select the clips in the Project panel, right-click, Modify/Interpret Footage, set the Override option to Rec.709.

 

The blown out look on export is what Premiere currently does with any media it sees as HDR when used on a Rec.709/SDR timeline without the Override to Rec.709 being set.

 

Neil

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