Updated Premiere 2019, color problems

[fotomokio]

I just updated to the latest version and when I open an exisiting project, open a new one, etc, the colors on the raw video files are much more contrasted as opposed to the raw image they really are. How can I adjust for it to open correctly?

[Mo Moolla]

Well Mojave offers the new "dark mode" which I am sure you are aware of. I find this has somehow played havoc on color gamuts in Resolve and now I see in Premiere. The gamut is almost non existent and the RAW footage seems to look "graded" already. Somehow the OS is bumping up the RAW files saturation levels. Still a mystery but hopefully one Apple will address in a patch sometime soon.

[Villiam3295]

I had the same issue.

A project I was working on after a previous editor had no effects on the clips used and I thought the raw footage was just nicely color corrected.  But when I tried to "Replace With After Effects Composition," edited it in AE, and then looked at it again in PR, the color had changed; it looked flat like you'd expect it to from raw footage.  Apparently, the previous editor had color corrected the MASTER file in PR, not the CLIP.  That affects all clips of the same name without having to apply that effect to each clip, and once replaced with AE composition removes it.

Maybe that's the problem?

[adrienr48325702]

Premiere Pro 2019. has major issue with decoding format.

XAVCS/L are not decode properly, leaving behind huge banding and noticeable loss of resolution in the colours.

I don't see this problem in the 2018 version, neither in other software. This is widely use video format and it's rather urgent for Adobe to address this problem.

I bring a test shot here: from A7SII Slog2 XAVCS HD 50P, contrast and sat pushed to the max (in premiere pro) for the show.

On the left, XAVCS decode by Premiere pro 2019, on the right decode by DaVinci, then exported in Pro res (422HQ 50P HD).

So it is not a hardware problem. It is premiere pro 20149 that have a problem.

It's unbelievable, you would think the shot is from two different lighting.  Take a look at theses red spots on the skin, it feels like premiere pro has decoded this pictures with a format under 8 bits depth.

[R Neil Haugen]

S-log ... what LUT are you using?

Neil

[adrienr48325702]

There is not LUT applied.

Only contrast and saturation to make the issue easier to spot.

S-log or not, every other software has no issue at all.

I'm not the only one, some youtubers have spot that problems as well. This is Adobe's problem and need to be fix.

[chrisw44157881]

i think the workaround is to transcode to prores before importing into premiere if its the same bug

[adrienr48325702]

Yep, but that is not a solution when the volume is way too big, and the deadline is too close.

[R Neil Haugen]

Go over to the bug/features UserVoice system and search for other posts of problems with that media. Either add a vote/comment or make a new post.

Include a short clip if you can for the engineers.

And then post a link back here. Everything posted there goes to both the engineer's system and the upper managers who decide budgets and such.

Adobe lives by metrics. Let's give them some.

Neil