washed out colours when exporting as .h264

[mattsmithdop]

I am having a nightmare with a whole load of exports (15 of them!!) where the colours looks great in premiere but are all washed out once exported (Settings are 50mbps .h264's wrapped as a .mp4) I have spent all afternoon researching what the issue might be and i've come to the conclusion that its likely to be a gamma shift problem. I can't find any straightforward solutions to this though so any help would be massively appreciated! The top image below is a screen grab from in premiere with the correct colours and the bottom one is taken from the .h264 in quicktime player.

Thanks in advance

Matt

[Frannie@Cartoonfun]

Brilliant. Many thanks!

[R Neil Haugen]

Understand that LUT is going to "help" for users watching on improperly color-managed Retina (P3-Display color space) monitors.

Which are under 6% of screens in the US, under 3% worldwide.

On Retina screens with proper settings in the ColorSync utility, and the vast majority of other screens, it will make your work look worse.

So it's your choice which "fix" to use. And what your market uses.

Neil

[marcoso59846131]

Maybe that video would help you! 

It actually worked. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=noFlexiSJxo

[R Neil Haugen]

One caveat ... when you apply the export LUT, the media produced by that will look closer to what it was seen as on your machine within Premiere when viewed on as noted, QuickTime or YouTube ... on a Mac with a Retina monitor.

However ... that will perhaps not look so good on any other device not using a Retina screen.

Does everyone watching your content use a Mac device? Hmmm ... that's under 12% of screens in the US, less than that elsewhere in the world.

Retina monitors are beautiful things. It would just be nice if Apple just applied correct Rec.709 standards to Rec.709 media. But ... they have always liked to have their own playground.

Neil