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selenadaphne
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June 23, 2018
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Color Correction Changing After Update

  • June 23, 2018
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I am having issues with color correction being changed when I'm opening projects on a different computer than the one it was colored on.

I am re-exporting new versions (different resolutions and codecs) of old projects. When I open these projects on a different computer (same adobe login), there is a huge discrepancy between how I colored the clips originally and what they look like on computer B.

I'm wondering if this is an issue that other people are experiencing and how to fix this?

In terms of coloring, most of the clips were colored with one of my lumetri presets (not LUTs using .cube or .look), just preset saved in effects. Is it possible that this is causing my issue going from computer to computer?

edit:  This may be user error (it must have something to do with the color presets), but it's concerning to me that this wouldn't be synced across computers or that the color on the individual clips wouldn't be locked into the project rather than unique to the computer. Any help resolving this would be greatly appreciated.

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    Correct answer Kevin-Monahan

    JacobT,

    It sounds like the LUTs you have installed on each machine might be slightly different from each other. Did you happen to add LUTs by opening the app package? Or have you only used the Browse button to add LUTs? If you hacked open the app package, you can have this problem, because Premiere Pro stores LUTs in a certain order that could only be maintained by using the Browse function. With the current version, that has changed with a new feature that allows you to load multiple LUTs without getting this confusing color issue.

    Let me know if that might be the case.

    Thanks,
    Kevin

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    Kevin-Monahan
    Community Manager
    Kevin-MonahanCommunity ManagerCorrect answer
    Community Manager
    July 11, 2018

    JacobT,

    It sounds like the LUTs you have installed on each machine might be slightly different from each other. Did you happen to add LUTs by opening the app package? Or have you only used the Browse button to add LUTs? If you hacked open the app package, you can have this problem, because Premiere Pro stores LUTs in a certain order that could only be maintained by using the Browse function. With the current version, that has changed with a new feature that allows you to load multiple LUTs without getting this confusing color issue.

    Let me know if that might be the case.

    Thanks,
    Kevin

    Kevin Monahan - Sr. Community and Engagement Strategist – Adobe Pro Video and Audio
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    rodneyb56060189
    Legend
    June 23, 2018

    A sad but true state of affairs: re: different computers etc.

    Nothing is standardized in consumer and pro-sumer computer land. Every monitor and every laptop screen is slightly different. Even every TV ever made is different. Color, contrast, brightness, etc. is all different for each monitor and TV etc.

    Think of the computer as a digital thing with a 'accessory' or 'output device' attached to it. Every one of those output devices is different.

    This is also true of PRINTERS attached to computers so that you can make nice photo prints.

    To really get sorta close to having the same color spaces and outputs things have to be calibrated very carefully and 'matched'.

    For example, what you see on one computer monitor can be carefully 'matched' to another computer monitor by comparing the two simultaneously and then adjusting your EXPORT to accommodate the other computer monitor.

    So, in short, what you are seeing as a difference is very normal and you will probably never in your hopefully long life ever find a solution that is satisfactory.

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    selenadaphneAuthor
    Participating Frequently
    June 23, 2018

    Hi Rodney,

    Thank you for the input. I've done quite a bit of research into this over the past few weeks and I've researched monitor/display/color calibration in the past as well.

    This is a different issue. This isn't the difference in calibration between two displays, it seems that Premiere is actually reading the color correction information differently on the two computers. The differences are so drastic (when alternate exported video content is viewed on the two displays side by side it is almost identical), it is clear that there is a deeper issue with premiere or the way my color correction is structured.

    I reached out to adobe support directly and they acknowledged that they have been getting a number of complaints concerning color correction recently, but they weren't able to provide any answers or even confirm if people were experiencing the exact same issue.

    R Neil Haugen
    R Neil Haugen
    Legend
    June 23, 2018

    Trying to isolate exactly the situation you're having.

    So, is this opening a project file on different versions of PrPro on different computers, the same version of PrPro across different computers, what, just to be sure ... ?

    Are the presets also copied over to the same location in all computers?

    And it sounds like if you export something from one, then view that on others, it looks pretty much the same?

    Neil

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