Override color is not encoding correctly, it encodes like raw unsaturated

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Importing footage from the Canon R5, which was shot on log 3 Cinema, as I go to override the color management from 709 to log3 Cinema, in Premiere, it looks exactly as I want it, but once it encodes, the image turns gray, and unsaturated, as if the colorspace didn't change.

R Neil Haugen · Accepted Answer

Thanks for your patience NeilI'm using a small preset to encode parts of it to submit to the director for tests so I don't need a very high quality.The ME color settings are as follows.Media color Settings View Gamma 2.4 (Broadcast)Auto-detect Log video = CHECKEDDisplay Color Settings = UNCHECKED I also changed the preset to many other presets, including AppleProRes 422, and it is still coming out like the attached video.I have no idea what else to do.Make sure that auto detect log in Me is also selected. And unless you're running a Decklink or AJA breakout device, I strongly recommend display Color Management on also. And of course, don't change anything for Rec.709 video levels off of auto or legal for your monitor. Might try unchecking import sequences natively.

R Neil Haugen · Answer

Do you have tonemapping on for the sequence?

Setting it to log3 simply does a manual tell to Premiere you want that seen as log3 or whatever you set. That doesn't do anything in playback or exporting, however. It needs a normalization to linear display space step to go from log-.lin. Hence either manually normalizing or using the better option to tonemap via the algorithm.

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