Export Frame is way too bright

[dudeoflife123]

why is my export frame from sequence way too bright on export?  

I am using premiere 2025.  I tried to turn off color management but that is no longer in preferences.  tried to look in project settings it's not there either.  fruistrating wasting so much time just trying to export a frame.

also tried to go to File -> Export -> Media and choose PNG and turn off effects, but it does not export a frame it wants to export a video, strange.

thank you

[Ann Bens · Accepted solution]

In the Export settings turn of Export as Sequence and it will export a frame.

[dudeoflife123]

No it is still exporting as video clip tried png tiff jpeg , why is this?

[Ann Bens]

No it is still exporting as video clip tried png tiff jpeg , why is this?

Must be something in your settings as I get a still not a clip.

[Odobe]

Hello

if you use the camera icon on both source and program monitors you can export a still frame - it will give you a choice of formats to save it as such as Tif, JPEG, PNG etc.

[dudeoflife123]

Yeah but like I said the exported frame's brightness is way too high does not look like what is showing in the monitor, this is why I am asking this question. Why is it doing this? 

[Odobe]

You might want to right click on the footage in the Project bin.

select modify

select interpret footage

• And see what you have there in colour settings
• Some iPhone footage will need color space altering for example