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CJCARNAHAN
CJCARNAHAN
Inspiring
January 11, 2023
Question

Export colors different between Premiere and Media Encoder

  • January 11, 2023
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Clients were complaining that the colors are "washed out" upon export, which, upon further investigation, is a color shift when I export with media encoder. 

When I export h.264 from Premiere directly, the color does not shift, however, the color significantly shifts when using Adobe media encoder. Attached are some screenshots. The first screenshot is what comes out from AME. The second from Premiere directly. Why would there be such a significant shift? 

 

My monitors are all calibrated, using NVIDIA settings high bit rate, full HDR color spectrum etc. I'm not a newbie at this. 

Latest studio drivers from NVIDIA, RTX 3090. 

Premiere v 22.1.2

AME v 22.0

Shooting BRAW, using BRAW 2.3 

 

Before you tell me to update everything -- it was working fine a few weeks ago. Why is there a shift all of a sudden? 

 

Thanks!

 

  

  

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R Neil Haugen
R Neil Haugen
Legend
January 11, 2023

What is the color space and management of clips and sequence?

 

Are any LUTs involved?

 

Do you have the same preferences set for Mercury Acceleration, and for H.264/5 hardware encoding and decoding in both apps?

 

Neil

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CJCARNAHAN
CJCARNAHANAuthor
Inspiring
January 11, 2023

Hi Neil, thanks for the reply.

 

No LUT's. I am utilizing the Blackmagic RAW panel in Premiere, however. 

 

Mercury Playback Engine GPU Acceleration (CUDA) Is enabled in both programs. 

 

Color management is set to HDR Graphics White (Nits) 100% (Premiere), and tin AME I have "H265/HEVC Hardware accelerated decoding/hardware encoding) selected. Is there another color management section in AME that is not in preferences?

 

R Neil Haugen
R Neil Haugen
Legend
January 11, 2023

Yes. Although it did look like "Display color management" was unselected in the GENERAL tab on PR. Not sure if that would have done it though. 

 

In PR: H264/HEVC hardware encoding/decoding was already selected. 


DCM would affect how it looks in the Program monitor on many systems.

 

What's the BRAW panel you're using there? And the settings applied ...

 

Neil

Everyone's mileage always varies ...
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