Export color is so different than preview

Report · May 18, 2022

Hi,

When I export my video it looks VASTLY different than the preview with the color corrections I've made, and the quality of the video is quite poor.

I've seen some different posts about how the preview function doesn't match Apple's resolution settings but these look like minor differences with the video. Mine looks terrible and totally blasted out.

Here are the steps I went through:
1. Color corrected the video in the main editing window. I'm using a Lut that is supposed to help with color correction.

2. Rendered the video.

3. Exported the video with the following settings:
- Adaptive Medium Bitrate
- H.264
Am I not doing something right in my export?

Report · Jun 24, 2025

If any of this works, try going to preferences/color and check this two boxes, i have my premiere in spanish but i guess that in english should work too

Report · Aug 12, 2025

Anyone still struggling with this should watch this video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-o6xjqLyuvo&t=377s&ab_channel=MattWhoisMattJohnson

This explains a lot, including how using VLC (at 2.2 web gamma) can help with the anxiety of a QT export. LOL. It still looks like shite in QT, but once uploaded, the web gamma broadcast shows up exactly as I wanted.