P: Having text on screen makes video brighter.

[ExoTheFlyingFish]

I post gameplay videos on YouTube, and I've noticed that when I add text to the video, it makes the screen a tad brighter while the text is on screen. It's not a disaster, but it's definitely a little irritating. I've added a short video for an example.

As far as I can tell, it doesn't change the video brightness within Premiere- just Windows Media Player and YouTube, so I suspect it has to do with my export settings.

[Matthew5D51]

You are a god send thank you so much! None of these solutions worked but I tried this and it did!! I've been struggling with this problem for a while and this fricking worked! I literally made this account just to thank you!!!

[R Neil Haugen]

I would like @jstrawn  ... @DaciaSaenz  ... and @Francis-Crossman to be aware of this. A very odd solution, but if it works, hey, it works ... shouldn't be an issue though.

Neil

[yejink88244996]

Thank you so much. It worked perfectly. Thank you again!!

[jenr22722148]

YES! Thank you!! I have been dealing with this issue for over a year and this is the ONLY solution that worked for me!

[keeldog]

YES! This fixed the issue for me — thank you for sharing this!  Awful problem. Might not be too bad for others, but for me, the contrast on the video looked like absolute garbage.

[Griobhtha]

I noticed this artifact when exporting for the first time and I believe I found a fix.

Go to File -> Project Settings -> General

Then at the top you see  a panel for "Video Playback and Rendering"

Make sure you choose "GPU Acceleration" for final exporting.

I've had issues in premiere rendering some effects with "GPU acceleration" and so sometimes toggle back and forth between "GPU acceleration" and "Software only" rendering. I forgot to toggle back to "GPU acceleration" before exporting and noticed this strange brightening (its sort of like a desaturation, actually) with not only text overlay, but when some other elements were overlapped as well, such as nests overlapping other unseen footage (bad practice, I know, but easy way to use audio from a clip without delinking, etc). 

[WesleyWasTaken · Accepted solution]

Discovered this strange bug today. The solution André0D45 posted worked for me, so I went looking for something related that might make it easier. I believe I may have found it:

1. In your export settings, select the Effects tab.
2. Check the box for Lumetri Look / LUT.
3. Make sure None is selected in the drop-down.

After I did this, none of my clips with text overlays changed brightness, and I didn't have to apply Lumetri Color with Basic Correction unchecked to individual clips.

[keeldog]

I had followed the instructions of André0D45, and that worked for individual clips, but this solution worked for the whole video. Thank you! I wish there was a better way to upvote solutions like you can on Stack Exchange. Greatly appreciated!

[Stan Jones]

> I wish there was a better way to upvote solutions... 

You inspired me to experiment. I'm not a moderator, but I found that I had the option to select the WesleyWasTaken solution as the correct answer.

Stan

[keeldog]

Oh nice! Hopefully this fix works for everybody else too. Thanks!

[Daniel37084469jk41]

I started to have this same issue right now, only when rendering 1080 videos. Working fine with 720. Using Premiere Rush (mobile phone version)

Weird that I've used to render 1080 with no issues on titles just a couple of weeks ago. The only difference is that I've experienced some storage issues since then but I've already made space available so it should be solved now.

Any clues?

[Red-Cor]

I've been using Premiere Pro for at least 7 years, and for the past 3ish years I've encountered this issue where if I add any type of text (whether generated in Graphics or open captions/subtitles), any type of subtitle or caption, it creates this hazy/washed out/brighter adjustment on top, and each time a text appears on screen, it makes the image flicker in and out of this seeming filter. I have tried every single solution I found on forums and nothing worked, I am using the most up to date version of Premiere (24.1), I export in h.264 always, I resetted my preferences too. I followed what these links said: 

https://community.adobe.com/t5/premiere-pro-discussions/subtitles-change-the-brightness-of-my-video/... 

https://community.adobe.com/t5/premiere-pro-discussions/brightness-issues-subtitles-premiere-pro-202... 

https://community.adobe.com/t5/premiere-pro-discussions/having-text-on-screen-makes-video-brighter/t...

I ran out of ideas. Adobe please help me fix this bug. 

THE ONLY SOLUTION I found, was if I used WHITE captions. Normally I like to add yellow subtitles because they are less distracting. I NEED to be able to use coloured captions without this bug. 

Please does anyone have any solutions, it doesn't seem like a common bug but it exists and for me it's lasted for years. Help I want to be able to make my films the way I envision them and text is a big part of them! Thank you!!

[Red-Cor]

Edit: I exported the film I'm working on now thinking that I have found a solution by only using white captions, but it is doing the same error, it was less noticeable initially. So no solutions on my end. 

[AnnikaKoenig]

Hi Red-Cor, before I make wrong assumptions, can you attach a video so I can see what the issue looks like?

[Red-Cor]

Hi @AnnikaKoenig , yes of course, here is an excerpt: https://youtu.be/xZQxj83hbJU 

Thank you very much for having a look!

[Tc-Mt]

Hey everyone.

Ive encountered a strange problem after exporting my newest video. Everytime a subtitle appears, it changes the brightness oder the colour of my video. Inside the programm this does not happen.

*Edit: Ive looked closer and it also appears inside the program, although more subtle. The options Ive selected for subtitles are "open subtitles". I havent put any effects on the video or the subtitles.

** Nice. Removing the subtitles doesnt change it. Now it stays even with subtitles.

The only options Ive selected for the export are Format h.264 and Youtube 1080p Full-HD. I havent touched the other settings. The options for the subtitles are locked.

I havent found any clue about why or a solution. Whats happening?

[Phillip Harvey]

Are you exporting with hardware encoding? Try software.

Also, I always like to throw out the recommendation that you make subtitles with the Essential Graphics tool rather than the Captions tool unless you actually need to work with sidecar files. Maybe that doesn't apply here, but if you have no need to work with .srt's, then in my opinion you don't need to hamstring yourself with the captions tool.

[Steen Pedersen]

Wow, I have the same problem and just tried to software render and the problem is gone. Do you know more? Is it something Adobe will fix? 

[Stan Jones]

Are you saying that the "1" in the "with sub" image is a caption made with the Caption Tool using an Open Subtitling stream?

If you are using captions just to insert numbering, I agree with Joseph that you should just use the text/graphics.

Open Subtitling is a special form of closed caption. If you are burning in captions, you are looking for Open Captions.

Also, I just did a test and I see not color or brightness change with Open Subtitling.

Test by creating a new sequence with your source footage and see if the brightness/color issue gone.

Stan

[Tc-Mt]

Thank you for your time and your responses.

Im quite the newbie and I havent found an option to change the way of encoding. I have, however, fixed the problem by exporting the vid without compression. I dont know why this fixed it. Afterwards I converted the vid to mp4 with another software and still... not the same problem as exporting directly to mp4.

I will dive into the essential graphics tool next time. Thank you.

[AOE]

Hi all, 

Sorry if this has been asked already, but I have issues with exporting subtitles in Premiere Pro 2021. Subtitles changed in this new version to create a caption track with a new format/style. I chose the format ''subtitle'' and style ''none''. Vanity settings are: fill ''white'', background ''75% opacity, 13pt size''. I exported my sequence via software only in H.264 format. In the exported .mp4 (not visible in the sequence in Premiere Pro) there's a brightness change whenever there is a subtitle. It has a greyish overlay/lower brightness setting over the entire screen. Brightness turns back to normal if there are no subtitles in the image. It's extremely annoying to look at all of those brightness changes in a video.

I can't change the export settings to the recommended as I get the well-known compiling error, or I would try. Does anyone know a fix that doesn't mean that I have to redo everything in text?

Working on:

Macbook Pro

MacOS Big Sur

Intel Core i5 processor

Intel Iris Plus Graphics 645, 1536 MB

Almost 1TB left in storage

[davids38282229]

Ever resolve this? A friend is having similar issues that I'm trying to help figure out.

[R Neil Haugen]

This has popped up from time to time. If I remember correctly, a few people could export in say ProRes and not get this, then did their H.264/5 deliverables from that 'master' ProRes in Handbrake, ShutterEncoder, or ffmpeg.

But ... that's a remembrance and I don't guarantee it will work.

Neil