Sony 16-bit Log footage is rubbish after the update.

[wherestim]

Before the update, if I displayed 2K (or even 1080p) on a 4K monitor it would appear smooth (obviously not as crisp as when working with source 4K footage, but it was at least smooth). Now after the update, the 2K footage appears clearly pixelated. The two screenshots below is a BEFORE and AFTER the Premiere update grabbed on a 4K monitor: The source footage is 2K 16-bit Sony Log. If you can view the AFTER image at full resolution you will see the pixelation. What gives? Is there a setting somewhere that I'm missing?

BEFORE:

AFTER:

[wherestim]

Adobe techs is any one able to shed some light?

[Jim_Simon]

Please describe your set up for us.

[wherestim]

My setup hasn't changed since the update;

HP zBook17 G4.

Win10.

Xeon E3-1535 3.10Ghz 4 cores.

32GB RAM

Quadro P4000

Source material;

Filmed with Sony F5 / AXS raw recorder @ 2K, 240fps 16bit raw sLog2.

The photos above are quite telling... Rendered out of Premiere the same way shouldn't produced two completely different results like that.

[wherestim]

What are your thoughts?

[Kevin-Monahan]

Hi WheresTim,

Have ever opened the app package before? Like, tried to add LUTs other than using the "Browse" function?

Thanks,
Kevin

[wherestim]

Hi Kevin,

I'm not sure what you mean by app package.

The footage exhibits the pixelation straight after it's imported in the bin and on a fresh timeline before any LUTs or effects are added.

As i mentioned, the BEFORE picture was pre-update, and the AFTER picture is post update... both from the same timeline/footage/source.

[wherestim]

Hi Kevin,

Any thoughts?

[wherestim]

Kevin-Monahan, I need an answer to this asap.

All footage I've ever shot from a Sony F5 using 2K, Cine EI, raw, sLog scales as per the examples above (horribly). Yet if i open the same footage in Resolve it scales as expected (the same with the previous version of Premiere).

Please can you provide a fix.

Contact me via this website: www.gen.media

[wherestim]

Hi Kevin,

This is still an issue - and a rather glaring one as to get around the problem, i currently have to take the footage into Davinci Resolve and re-export it as something like a HQX 444 file then re-import it into Premiere in order to get it to look sharp. This is almost tripling my storage requirements.

Keep in mind, Premiere used to read these file types natively prior to the October patch.

Please can you contact me directly to discuss?

Many thanks,

Tim

[wherestim]

Kevin is anyone still looking into this???

Thanks,

TM