Video in Premiere appears much darker than the original

[cedrickk57448528]

Hello everybody,



if I import a 4K (50 fps & 10-bit) video in Premiere, it is much darker and has quality loss.



What can this be? I've already changed the sequence, etc. The problem remains unfortunately

Left Windows Media Player                  -                     Right Premiere Pro Preview

[Grigor Poghosyan]

Seems like you have made default setting of auto contrast and premiere adds it to videos .

[cedrickk57448528]

How can i change it?

[Grigor Poghosyan]

I am not really sure, but maybe trashing preferences may be useful. FAQ: How to reset (trash) preferences in Premiere Pro?

[cedrickk57448528]

I try it but it doesnt work...

[R Neil Haugen]

Your example up there ... to me, it looks like WMP is trying to show you a lightened version of the image, and PrPro is showing the more likely actual quality of the image file.

It would be very helpful if you could post a frame of that in your reply box so others of us can test on our machines. Also, go into the color workspace, bring up the Lumetri scopes, either/both RGB Parade or Waveform ... I'd prefer to have the RGB Parade to view at the least, but Waveform would also be useful. Do a screen-grab of the image in program monitor and the scopes I requested. That would give the better information.

For exposure/contrast, always trust the scopes ... never your eyes. Below top, RGB Parade and Waveform (Luma). Below bottom, RGB Parade, program monitor and Creative tab of Lumetri. A screen grab like the bottom with with either/both of the scopes would be great.

Neil

[Mo Moolla]

R Neil Haugen​ Difficult one to troubleshoot. So many factors to consider:

Screen type

Codec of original footage

Connection from GPU to screen

Are monitors calibrated?

etc etc

WMP is showing saturated "non true" colors and OP sees the "RAW" footage in premiere as inferior as would most who are used to seeing ungraded images.

To me the image in PP doesn't look inferior, just "washed out" which is normal on ungraded material.

OP, is your display resolution on source and program monitors set to high?