Premiere Pro Exported Color Grading Is Wrong

[resonatatem59247725]

I'm trying to export a sequence with some color grading going on within a few adjustment layers. However, when I export, the color looks desaturated and very different from what it looks like in premiere pro on the parts where I have graded it. I tried exporting with Media Encoder as well as straight through premiere and have had the same result(except media encoder failed the first time). As I mentioned, there are a few layers of coloring going on, I'm not sure if this would have something to do with it, but it just seems wrong. The output file looks washed out.

Rendered with: PP & ME

Playing back on: Quicktime

My setup:

2017 macbook pro w/ touchbar

2.9 GHz Intel Core i7

16gb ram

Radeon Pro 560 4096 MB

Intel HD Graphics 630 1536 MB

Adobe Premiere Pro CC 2018 (no updates available as of Jun 10, 2018)

Here is a screenshot from premiere

And a scren shot playing out of quicktime, within a few seconds on the timeline. notice the orange, blue and reds are all washed out.

[R Neil Haugen · Accepted solution]

No, there's nothing wrong with the export.

This program exports Rec.709/sRGB media, which is also what it works to show inside the app in the Program monitor.

You're then viewing that file on the worst color-unaware app out there, on a computer that may not be really set to properly show sRGB/Rec709 media at specs.

Ergo, the problem is specifically that video viewer on that screen. Which is why both the dynamic range (light to dark) and gamma are off.

You might try VLC and Potplayer for checking,  at least one is cross-platform.

I don't think your screen is a P3, but many newer Macs are, which is also a *very* different color profile than Rec.709/sRgb ... and also difficult to view video properly on.

[redsox542]

But, what's the solution? Surely, there must be a way for someone in X state on YouTube to see what our eyes are seeing in Premiere. How does one achieve that?

[ssgt.barnes2010]

You give all this tech info but no solution to the problem over an over again.  Try solving it.

[Kevin-Monahan]

Hi ssgt.barnes2010,

Sorry! This is an old post. Can you update us on your system and media so we can try to help? These days there are a lot of issues with HDR video. If you can let us know the camera you are using and whether or not you are shooting HDR or not would be enormously helpful. Let us know!

Thanks,
Kevin

[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