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musaby
musaby
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June 23, 2025
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HDR footages Makes white color to grey

  • June 23, 2025
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Hello Dear Community.

Before the answer i just want to make sure that i read all the post and watched all the video about HDR, Rec 709 or HLG, but knowing these stuff and not finding the solutions is just making me so annoyed.

So i have a video thanks to my client she recorded HDR with her iphone not with standart colors.

So obviously i set my sequence settings to HLG, my lumetri color settings and my export settings etc.
All the settings that i did you guys can see from the pictures i added to this post.

But no matter what i did, no matter which option i selected the subtitle colors or the graphic colors just faded. Yellow is not looking like yellow or white looking like grey. And if i set the settings to Rec 709 then the footages just making trouble.

So what is the proper solution for that. Like what i'm missing in here? God please help me with that.

Correct answer Sumeet Kumar Choubey

Hi musaby,

I discovered a better way to change the color space of the text-based graphics layers in bulk. To do this, create a new Bin in the Project panel (name it Graphics or anything of your choice) & double-click to open it. Then select all the required text-based graphics layers in the timeline & navigate to Graphics and Titles > Upgrade to Source Graphic. This will create individual instances of your graphics in that bin. Now select all these Graphic clips in the bin, right-click on the selection > Modify > Color > set Override Media Color Space to Rec.2100 HLG. This will update the color space for all the graphics at once.

 

Also, if you have any PNG-based graphics, you can also bulk select all the required PNG clips in the Project panel & right-click & modify the color space in the same way. Hope you find it useful.

 

Thanks,

Sumeet

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Sumeet Kumar ChoubeyCommunity Manager
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June 23, 2025

Hi musaby,

 

Welcome to the community! Adding to Joost van der Hoeven's suggestions. Generally, such issues occur due to a mismatch in the color space of your media and the graphics/text layer. Could you please confirm if you wish to export in HDR or SDR? If you want SDR export, you may navigate to Window > Lumetri Color > Settings and set Color Setup to Direct Rec.709 (SDR) or Wide Gamut (Tone Mapped) (if you want to tone map the iPhone HDR to SDR).

 

However, since captions aren’t treated as clips, exporting them in HDR can be a bit tricky, as you won't be able to change or override the color space of captions and subtitles. If you want to export HDR, you may try these steps and see if it helps.
- Keep your existing sequence settings for HDR (with Working & Output Color space set to Rec.2100 HLG)

- Select all the subtitles in the caption track, then navigate to Graphics and Titles > Upgrade Caption to Graphic. This will convert the subtitles to individual text layers, which can then be assigned a color space.

- You may then select a text layer in the timeline & navigate to Window > Lumetri Color > Settings & set Override Media Color Space to Rec.2100HLG. This will allow the text to have higher brightness levels in the HDR sequence, which will prevent that faded or greyish look for white texts. However, this might be a lengthy process as you will have to do this action for all the text layers individually.

Hope this helps. Let us know if you have any questions.

 

Thanks,

Sumeet

musaby
musabyAuthor
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June 24, 2025

Hello Sumeet, I would like to export in the best possible way that doesnt require any color grade. In this case i believe i would like to export HDR, i changed my Lumetri settings according with the Joost suggestion and it look a bit better(footage wise) but my subtitles, or the question mark design still looks out of color. And my subtitles are already graphics(or in this case .png file) not .srt files, I'm using Firecut extention for my subtitles.

And i just read your comments as you said i clicked one of my subtitles file and than overrided to 2100 HLG and it worked but there is a catch as you mentioned. It doesn't allow me to change all of my subtitles file at the same time. So Adobe has no solution for that? I mean come on guys cant do all the subtitles one at a time, it's OMG.

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Sumeet Kumar ChoubeyCommunity ManagerCorrect answer
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June 24, 2025

Hi musaby,

I discovered a better way to change the color space of the text-based graphics layers in bulk. To do this, create a new Bin in the Project panel (name it Graphics or anything of your choice) & double-click to open it. Then select all the required text-based graphics layers in the timeline & navigate to Graphics and Titles > Upgrade to Source Graphic. This will create individual instances of your graphics in that bin. Now select all these Graphic clips in the bin, right-click on the selection > Modify > Color > set Override Media Color Space to Rec.2100 HLG. This will update the color space for all the graphics at once.

 

Also, if you have any PNG-based graphics, you can also bulk select all the required PNG clips in the Project panel & right-click & modify the color space in the same way. Hope you find it useful.

 

Thanks,

Sumeet

    Joost van der Hoeven
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    Joost van der HoevenCommunity Expert
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    June 23, 2025

    You have Preserve RGB on, disableling all color management for that clip. Please set it back to Use Media Color Space.

    This wis what I'd recommend:

     

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