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April 7, 2024
Question

slog 3 footage color issues in sequence

  • April 7, 2024
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I am experiencing a weird issue with Premiere Pro. I am on the current version and only a few sequences in my project have extremely saturated colors. I have been through all color management properties in the sequence and the individual clips to make sure that my slog 3 footage is in the correct color space. All of the footage has the same color space and codec yet some of them are over-saturated and exposed. This issue happened after I attempted to export a sequence. Any fix?

 

  

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Inspiring
May 14, 2024

Hello  
I was experiencing the same thing. I always use an adjustment layer for the phantom lut I use but I was getting weird colors and exposure. 
I solved the problem the long way, and then the short way. The long way: by going into each clip in the timeline, then going to the Lumetri Color panel and clicking on the Settings tab. On "Source Clip" I clicked on "Override media color space:" to Rec. 709.
After doing this I got the proper log look and the adjustment layer with the lut seems to be working well.
Below "Source Clip", on  "Sequence", i didn't change anything. The "working color space" is Rec.709

Then I realized there is a way of doing it faster. Go to the project panel, select all the clips -> modify -> Color. Do the same -> "override media color space" to Rec.709
Hope it helps. 
Leon

R Neil Haugen
Legend
April 7, 2024

First, why are you using the various odd spots they initially put CM stuff into, rather than the full CM controls panel ... Lumetri panel's "Settings" tab. Which has all  the color management options, and if you have a clip selected, even the clip CM settings.

 

This stuff is all interactived. So that's both where you should set things, and where you can best show others what you've done... as everything CM shows there.

 

Second ... that clip is not being correctly 'seen' of course. But as "we" can't see what you've done for CM, "we" can't say exactly what the problem is.

 

Have you set both auto-detect log and auto-tonemapping to on. Then exported to a 'standard' Rec.709 preset?

 

As if you haven't, well ... you haven't used the CM as it is mainly intended to work. And in doing so, you'll either 'fix' the problem or not. Either result tells us something useful.

Everyone's mileage always varies ...
Known Participant
April 7, 2024

Thank you for clarifying that the Lumetri panel settings tab controls the clip's CM settings! I had already turned on auto-detect log and auto-tone mapping. The Lumetri panel settings seem to be what they should be.

Known Participant
April 9, 2024

So you do your color work, export, it looks different.

 

But when you import back into Premiere, it looks the same as the sequence before exporting?

 

If so, then the issue is how you 1) have your viewer gamma and computer monitor setup for video playback, and 2) what you expect to happen versus what will actually happen "out in the wild".


Not exactly. I do my color work then exported. My export looked different because all the colors were overly saturated. Then I went back into my timeline and all of the clips were over saturated, but they still  in the same format before the export.