Misinterpreting Rec. 709 Metadata as sRGB

[c89706571]

Hey everyone, I’m running into an issue where Premiere Pro is misinterpreting a file with Rec. 709 metadata as sRGB. The file itself (received from the colorist) has the correct Rec. 709 color primaries and color space metadata (checked in VLC, Davinci Resolve), but when I import it into Premiere, it defaults to sRGB.

Has anyone else encountered this? Any idea why Premiere might be doing this. Manually setting the color space in the Interpret Footage dialog fixes it, but I’m wondering if there’s a deeper issue with sequence settings or a potential bug in Premiere, why Resolve and VLC can interpret it properly?

I’m using Premiere Pro 25.1.

Thanks in advance!

[R Neil Haugen]

By the specifications, Rec.709 is sRGB  ... period. The HDR formats can have varying color spaces, but SDR/Rec.709 is simply sRGB.

What is yours showing?

[c89706571]

Thank you for your answer. 

Sorry, my knowledge isn’t enough to properly explain this, but when I import the file into DaVinci Resolve or play it in VLC, the colors look fine. However, when I import it into Premiere, the colors appear washed out until I manually set the clip to override Rec. 709 instead of the default sRGB in modify/color.

[R Neil Haugen]

What is the clip's color space?

What's your viewing gamma setting in Premiere?

Mac or PC?

[c89706571]

Viewer Gamma 2.4 (Broadcast)

PC

[R Neil Haugen]

You don't show the range of the file.

It looks to be a ProRes file, Rec.709, but is it full range or limited?

It should be limited/video, and if it had been improperly exported as full range that might cause the issue.

All YUV (technically Y/Cb-Cr) video files are by specs supposed to be encoded as limited/16-235. ONLY full 12/14 bit RGB files are to be encoded full 0-255.

Then both are automatically displayed 0-255.

Note, this doesn't change the data or number of levels encoded, only how it's encoded.

[c89706571]

It is limited/video. Thanks for the help.

[Chetan Nanda]

Hi,

Please help in sharing a sample media. It will help in isolating the issue you are seeing.

Thanks,