MOV from IPHONE 14 shows up overexposed in Premiere Pro

Question

Desperately need help it all shows up overexposed and I have tried this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UY8JZybCn7s. but I cant access to tick the color management buttom. Is it a bug for IPHONE14 movies or how can I get the videos from my IPHONE 14 with correct colors in Premiere Pro? Help is very much appreciated Jenny

R Neil Haugen · Accepted Answer

Still at it and trying to post my XMAS family video. Premnier is wonderful with my Red....hence the biggest most popular recording device, the iphone 14, on the planet and they have not just a small issue but litterally fail dramatically. pretty sure my iphone timeline footage today looks worst than my vhs edit bay of decades ago...while on my i phone it looks cinematically fantastic. I guess Adobe decided not to test thier software on the single most used recording device that existon planet earth. I made them aware of this issue and it is ignored.

Then why do so many others have no problem whatsoever with iPhone video in Premiere?

It's because you don't have your color management set correctly. Which yea, can be a bit of a pain, but once done works.

I've tested a bunch of clips for other users they insisted Premiere couldn't handle correctly. For all iPhone and A7s...x and most others, it was entirely up to getting the correct settings.

I'd be happy to test yours, of course.

But with iPhone, it seems always to be setting auto detect log and tonemapping on, DCM on for all Macs and most PCs, setting Premiere's viewer display gamma correctly for your wants, and making sure you use an export preset that matches your sequence color management.

R Neil Haugen · Answer

You have probably created HDR clips on the iPhone, using that device's HLG setting.

So if you intend to use those with SDR/Rec.709 "standard" sequences and exports, you need to do some basic color management.

Go to the Project panel, select one or more clips, then right-click/Modify/Interpret Footage.

At the bottom are the color management (CM) controls. Set the Override-To option to Rec.709. And if this is grayed out, then you need to give us more information as to your GPU and your OS version also. A screen grab of the timeline and the interpret footage dialog would be good.

Now go back to your seqeunce, and click in the Timeline panel so it has 'focus', that thin blue line. Got to the menu bar up top, Sequence/Sequence Settings. Make sure that the working space is set to Rec.709.

Do any color/tonal corrections as needed. Then export using the presets that do NOT have HLG or PQ in the preset name.

Neil

(ps ... might want to set your iPhone back to Rec.709/SDR recording for now.)

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