Video quality is destroyed when exporting in premier pro

[kirstand66008717]

Hi ive this problem that i cant find a solution to anywhere. I have a video loaded in premier pro that been colour graded and looks perfect in the preview. But when it is exported in a h.264 file in the highest quality, the image is over exposed, heavily grainy, and looks way too sharp. However you can see the lut is still applied so i know it isnt a problem with it and i also removed the lut and exported and still has the same problem. The preview on premier pro looks cinematic but it ends up looking like a very amateur camera phone video. I've tried exporting with every version of h.264 and they all still are blown out. is there something im missing?

The top image is the image as viewed on premier pro and the bottom is the exported 1080p h.264 file.

[Jim_Simon]

I think Jamie LeJeune has it right in the following thread from the Blackmagic forums.  He's specifically talking about Resolve, but the idea holds true for all NLEs.  The upshot is, "The only image you can trust is to run SDI out to an accurately calibrated reference monitor."

http://forum.blackmagicdesign.com/viewtopic.php?f=21&t=68410

[Kona_Bob]

I can appreciate that when previewing the timeline via the Premiere GUI on an inexpensive monitor, we are not seeing what the image "really" looks like- BUT

what I don't understand is why the rendered, exported h.264 file, when placed on the timeline and viewed through the same monitor, looks different than the preview of the original graded footage.

The example above seems pretty striking

That has not been my own usual experience with Premiere: normally what I see on my exported file preview looks like my edited timeline preview.

[Richard M Knight]

Your two stills are different resolutions, are you sure your exports are correct?

[juanmario]

Exporting with HW in the latest version of the program has lower quality than previous versions.