Color handling problem - Not matching Resolve

[benwinter]

I've taken a clip into Resolve for color grading, but when I bring it back into Premiere, the colors are different—it seems more saturated, and hues are slightly different. See screenshot below. What's going on here?

Top is Resolve, bottom is Premiere. His face looks almost reddish in Premiere, but in Resolve it looks fine.

I'm exporting from Resolve in ProRes 4444.

[Jas Brooks · Accepted solution]

It's hard to be at all sure given the lack of detailed information about your exports (operating system, version number(s), source footage format, colour space, display space, etc). But this is definitely worth checking:Contrast issues in DaVinci Resolve on Macs - Time in Pixels

jason

[benwinter]

Wow. Yes that was it. Now I have to regrade my entire project. It's stunning what a difference that makes—why would they make that setting the default?!

[Jas Brooks]

Great, glad to hear that's solved your problem. It was REALLY frustrating me for quite a long while until I eventually found that blog. It's important to note that it's a PROJECT-setting, and so you'll need to check it every time you start a new grade in DVR.

I'm not exactly sure why it isn't the default setting, but I suspect that it's because DVR's primary market is high-end, professional colour-grading studios, where they're less likely to be grading for playback on a computer per-se, and more likely delivering for cinema or broadcast, where the colour-specs are much more precise and specific than a 'one-size-fits-all' web-export (like what I imagine you and I are normally used to delivering).

Ho-hum, live and learn eh?

Cheers,

jason

P.S. One more thought re: "regrading the entire project". I have found in the past that the gamma-shift was fairly consistent, and so I could just add a node to the existing grade, bring the clip back to where I wanted it, and then just add that node to all the other shots using copy & paste. Sometimes I've had to tweak one or two shots a little, but it was still MUCH quicker than starting over with each shot. Worth a try I guess. 😄