Washed out colors only on YouTube (it's not the export from PP itself)

[joliens60402762]

Hi

So I have been having a serious issue with washed out colors with the H264. Now I've found the solution with the NVIDIA control panel and that indeed made a complete difference. Now my exported files look as good as in PP, but when I upload them on YouTube however, they look bad again. So I upload a good-looking video, but somehow with the upload on YouTube the colors wash out. How is that possible? Hopefully someone can help me with this!

Kind regards

Jolien

[joliens60402762]

I realized it's probably the export anyway as it can't be much else. I tried to export with preset YouTube1080 instead of HD720p29.97 (which was recommended to me). Now it seems to be better. Although the first 5 seconds of the video in youtube are still very blurry and low quality...

[excited_Genie16B8]

The problem here is one of variables.  Ideally you want to eliminate anything that could be affecting the video signal, so that you're certain you're seeing that signal as it is, and not altered in some way.

Towards that end, you really do NEED to get the video off of the computer and onto a calibrated television from a hardware player.  This is because firstly, the majority of computer monitors just don't calibrate accurately.  So right there you've muffed the viewing experience and you're not seeing what's actually there.

Secondly, the software, the video drivers and even the operating system all can and often do alter the video signal, so again you've muffed the viewing experience and you aren't seeing the video accurately.

[joliens60402762]

Thank you so much for the reply. At the moment your suggestion is not an option, but I did read a lot about LUTs. Now I wanted to try and add a lut that would fix the situation in YouTube afterwards, but for some reason when I go to video effects -> color correction, Lumetri is not an option. Only Lumetri Color is, but I can't really open it. Any idea what I might be doing wrong?