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Premiere Changed ALL Of My Color Correction/Grading Dramatically!!!

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April 9, 2022
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So, I have a project that I've worked on for over 9 months. It's in a sepia tint and I painstakingly tweaked and colored each and every clip to perfection. Like I said, this took me about 9 months!

Tonight, I open up the project and... Premiere has removed ALL of my color correction and color grading. All I have now is a big project of ugly, uncorrected, ungraded footage.

I'm literally in tears over this. I'm sorry, but these kinds of DRASTICLY DESTRUCTIVE bugs are simply UNACCEPTABLE for a "professional" program, and it seems like they are occuring on a regular basis lately.

Is there ANYTHING I can do to fix this?

Windows 10 64 bit, 64G RAM, NVIDIA card. I've tried opening in the latest Premier 2022 and in 2021.

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Mo Moolla

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Hi there

Really sorry to hear that so many months of work may be at risk due to some unlnown issue.

There could be a possible solution that hopefully will resolve your issue.

Even though you donot see the color correction being applied, the sliders and value changes are still "alive" in the Lumetri panel.

You should look at saving the corrections as LUTS.

If you dont now how to create LITS there are a ton of vids available to watch on this.

The trick is now what to do AFTER you have created the LUTS (and stored them safely in a location like an external)

You have several options but I will outline just 3:

1. Reinstall your OS (not the most pleasant of tasks but it will esure stability)

2. Should 1 not be an option uninstall PP using the CC Cleaner tool.

Roll back to the most stable version that you were previously working with (ensure that your current save can be opened with the version you are installing)

3. Open the save .proj file and manually delete all the Lumetri correction you have made from within the Lumetri panel or the Effects panel

4. Save this .proj without the color correction as something like "My Ungraded Project)

5.Close off Premiere and Reopen with the new saved project

6. Apply any LUT and see what happens

Kindly let us know how you fare.

Hope thos works for you

Remeber that you can also move the saved LUTS to other NLE's if this is a client critical project and you stand to lose your income. Again , there are tons of video resources out there if you do not understand how to do this.

A tip for future use. ALWAYS have 2 versions of Premiere installed when Adobe releases a big update. As an example run 15.0 and 16.0 on the same machine. On Macs this is very safe and will not cause any issues. Its a safety net for serious critical work that doesnt cost too much time to manage.

Mo

Jeff Bellune

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Mo and Neil gave you good info, if a bit unpleasant.

Before you wipe your system, though, try this:

Launch Pr from a shortcut (Taskbar, Start Menu, Desktop) while holding down the Shift+Alt keys. Alt resets prefs and Shift clears plugin cache.
Keep the keys pressed until the main program window appears.
Before trying to open any project or starting a new one, go to Preferences>Media Cache and delete *all* your media cache files.
Now try opening your problem project or starting a new one and then importing the old one into it.
Try selecting just one sequence in the Project panel (what you called the "media bin") and then trying the XML export again using File>Export>Final Cut Pro XML.

You should also try setting your default audio input to none in Preferences>Audio Hardware.

R

Richard M Knight

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If you could Dropbox the project and Media we could have a look.

R Neil Haugen

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At this point I would also check that you don't have the "global fx mute" toggled on, because that WOULD do exactly what you're seeing. That's an option in the Program Monitor.

Neil

Everyone's mileage always varies ...

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defaultxevn64n09qqnAuthor

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I tried this and it did made a drastic difference to the appearnce of my edit. But it did so by displaying all of my clips completely unafected. Just the bare video straight from camera.

This tells me that there is some kind of color grade being recognized and displayed on my clips, just nothing like the color grade I did.

The color grade Premiere is putting on my edit makes it look like washed out log footage with a dark contrast matt overlayed. Very strange.

R Neil Haugen

Legend

What is the media? Log encoded or ... what?

Everyone's mileage always varies ...

Jeff Bellune

Legend

Do you have a saved version from before the upgrade to 2022? If so, save a copy of that project file somewhere safe and try opening the saved version in 2021, then in 2022.

(This assumes that it worked as expected in 2021).

You should also try importing the problem project into a new 2022 project.

D

defaultxevn64n09qqnAuthor

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Thank you Jeff. I'm downloading and installing it now. Hope this works. Fingers crossed.

About a month ago, I tried to remove 2022 and reinstall 2021. But something completely unexplainable happened. Even though I created projects in 2021 (not sure which iteration), EVERY single time I would go to open a 2021 created project in the reinstalled 2021, I would get the "this project was created in a previous version of... you must convert it..." message.

I literally uninstalled and installed EVERY SINGLE POINT iteration of 2021 on my machine and tried to open the projects I created in 2021, and no matter which one I installed, I got that message. That blows my mind and makes no sense. Is there an earlier version of 2021 than 15.0? 15.0 is the the last one Adobe offers me to download and install.

I've put up with A LOT of super annoying bugs for months. Like how every 30 min, my timeline witll lock and not let me move or import any new clips. I just get that circle with a line through it. I've gotten used to working hobbled like that in Adobe. Closing and reopeing Premiere a minimum of 100 times a day just to work on an edit. Once I close and reopen, it lets me work on the edit for another 30 minutes or so before it locks the timeline again. Let's not even talk about the ever present freezing, super choppy playback etc.

But it only got worse ever since I installed 2022 on my machine. Since installing 2022, I've had at least one CATASTROPHIC bug ruining entire projects every month. I can't go on like this with Adobe much longer, looking for a new NLE today. It's a shame because I used to teach Premiere and know it well. I didn't want to have to learn new software, but I can't take all the catastrophic bugs COMPLETELY RUINING projects I've worked on for 16 hour days for 6-9 months.

It's worth ANY costs to get away from that soul crushing heartache.

Jeff Bellune

Legend

If you can get any version of Pr 2021 to run, try importing one of your old 2021 projects into a *new* 2021 project.

If that works and the color grade looks like you want, then try saving that new 2021 project and importing it into a brand-new, empty, 2022 project. If this is just a problem of a slightly corrupted project file, then the project import step should fix that.

Also try resetting your workspace, or changing to a default workspace and resetting that.

All this is done in the hope that the grading information you need is still in those project files and you just need Pr to get at it.

D

defaultxevn64n09qqnAuthor

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I'm not sure how to edit my original post, or even if I can. I should mention that all of the color settings and adjustments on the sliders or the various looks are still there in the Lumetri Color panel for each clip, it's just that they are all being ignored in the playback monitor.

What's more odd is that the image I am getting in the playback monitor appears as though a color correction and grade has been perfomed across the entire edit, but it's like a washed out, almost color log footage appearance, across the entire edit (I don't ever shoot in log).