How To Fix Desaturated Colors In Your Adobe Premiere Pro Exports
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- Опубліковано 5 сер 2024
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Do your Premiere Pro exports look more desaturated and washed out than you see in the preview window? I've received many emails over the years from people having this issue, so here's how to fix it on Mac and PC.
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This works, but I also think it is inexcusable that this is an issue in video editing software marketed to professionals.
I agree. I am not sure why all of this cant be applied in the program initially?!
It's appalling.
This is not an issue with Premiere. It is an issue with how programs read video files and how browsers and platforms decode videos. So essentially you are applying a "fix" with this LUT but the "fix" is only for certain web applications and is actually wrong and will show up as wrong if it goes to broadcast or any other platform that has proper color management.
Wow! I've been looking for an effective fix to this issue for years! Thank you so much!
You have saved my life SO MANY TIMES! Of the many, many, many UA-camrs giving filmmaker tutorials on this platform you are by far the best. Thanks for all of your work and for your fun, laidback style of explanation. I owe a good 15% of my career to your advice at this point!
Straight to the point, and well articulated. Thank you.
Thank you for making such a professional, super simple, and to-the-point tutorial! It gets pretty annoying watching tutorials on UA-cam sometimes when the creator stretches out 6 minutes of actual tutorial into 12 minutes just so they can get more watch time... You a real MVP! Straight to the point... and for that, I instantly subscribed :)
Is it weird that this is what i needed to get proper colors in... Windows Media Player? Supposed to be for QuickTime, but i was getting washed out renders even without it.
I've had this problem for years, thank you for bringing this to light!
MATE! game changer! this was the best explanation ive seen for this issue, Ive been trying to fix this for AGES and this has been the most straight forward best way I have seen to fix it let alone how you explained it, thanks Matt! killing it as always mate!
Wow! Super effective. It's weird that this is not just an option in the software already. I was trying to compensate by adding saturation / contrast in my grading but never ended up right after exporting. Thanks for the easy fix!
WOW!! FINALLY!! I'VE SEARCHED THIS FOR OVER A YEAR AND YOU FINALLY FOUND A SOLUTION!!! THANK YOU FOR SAVING ME FROM SWITCHING TO FINAL CUT!!
I tried over 10 fixes to this issue, and this is the first that has fixed the gamma shift! Hats off to you sir.
Omg Matt i have been struggling with washed out color in premiere for months. Thank you so so much for sharing this
Omgosh! I was stuck at the live chat with adobe and they couldn't solve this problem. Thank you so much Matt! You saved me! Greatly appreciate it!
MATT!!!! Bro you totally answered my question on an edit I did recently that I color graded for a friend and the skin tones were washed out! God bless you and thank you 🙏🏻You’re AWESOME 😎!!
Where have you been all my life! It worked perfectly on a Mac, color is super deep and saturated as it should be. Thank you!!
This is the exact video I’ve been wanting on UA-cam for so long! You’re the greatest!
Haha awesome! Glad to help!
Thanks Matt ! Just a while back I was facing this issue ! You are a life saver !🤩
Wow - you're a genius. I have tried for two days to understand why my washed out video looks like it does when exporting from After Effects. This worked great in Aftereffects as well - Thank you!!!!!!!
i dont have enough words to thank u for saving my life. Ive lost my whole day trying to fix it and now u made it worth
Thanks a lot for this! I feel like I've struggled with this issue since day one with Premiere on my Macs. However, when I first added this LUT and exported it didn't work. The exported video was too dark. So I went to Preferences > General > Enable Display Color Management and checked it. Now the LUT makes my exported videos look 98% like inside of Premiere. The hues are sliiiiightly off in the green/magenta balance, but this is the best fix for this issue BY FAR. Just wanted to share that if anyone else tried this fix and it didn't produce the expected results. Thanks again. :)
thanks you, i prefer the little deviation to the magenta. is not perfect but more accurate from the premier preview
yeah same here
Thank you, I had to do this extra steps as well
Hey thanks for this comment! Question: After enabling Display Color Management, do I also need to apply this LUT to the newer projects? Or is it just a quick correction for pieces that were exported wrong? So, once I enable that, I can expect my exports to look exactly the same as it is displayed on Premiere? Thanks!
@@bluecalima9877 At least in my case I needed too as well. (I'm in AE) and had to turn color management to rec 709. gamma 2.4.
Great fix. I used it via an adjustment layer in my timeline (added the lut through color correction to that layer) instead of applying it during export, and it worked perfectly.
Exactly what i thought. Question is- then, is this tutorial [going through NVIDIA drivers] - is obsolete? the LUT is the solution here?
this video should be the first thing that pops up when searched. Still super helpful 3 years later
THANK YOU SO MUCH, I really considered switching programs ONLY because of this... I could never find a solution and again you, of all people, bring a perfect solution that has frustrated me so much for so long!
Finally, a person who find a REAL solution, it works perfectly on my MacBook Pro! Thanks a lot, dude! I will watch your others videos :-)
This is invaluable Matt, thank you! For those whose footage is turning out just a bit too dark with the LUT, this helped me: before color grading go to Premiere preferences > General and make sure Display Color Management is checked. This will adjust the view to your to your screen (and in my case, hopefully yours too, darkened it). I believe this darkening is happening at export but now that you have it enabled, you can accurately color correct and then your export with the LUT will work.
Thanks for this but mine is still super dark?
EXCELLENT video, Matt. Thanks for getting this info out there!
Dude! omg. I was editing a video for a client and was HORRIFIED when I exported the project lol!! Spent 2 days looking for a solution and nothing really worked. So glad to have stumbled across this video. It helped me immensely! Thank you so so so much!!!!!!!!
I love that you help us all with premiere pro!
You're a tutorial and problem-solving superhero. THANK YOU!
THANK YOU! We've asked so many people in person and have always come up empty-handed. Can't believe it took so long to find this video that solved the problem in a matter of 60 seconds. +++++
THANK YOU FOR SAVING MY DAY!!! You make awesome videos and I'm glad I started following your channel, keep doing what you're doing Matt, you are doing so much for the community! Hopefully one day we can give that back to you :)
Hey Matt! This was very helpful. Like many others though, my footage was a bit too dark after the Adobe LUT fix. HOWEVER-I figured out how to perfect the formula:
I created an adjustment layer for my whole timeline called “Export Layer.” Then I made the following color corrections to this adjustment layer:
Temperature @ 3
Exposure @ 0.2 for “normal” clips
Exposure @ 0.5 for “darker” clips
Exposure @ 0.7 for “darkest” clips
Highlights @ -17
Shadows @ 14
Saturation @ 105 for all clips
Took me several tries to get it right, but my exports are looking extremely accurate to my Premiere preview window now!
Hope this helps.
great advice as well
Thank you so much, sir! I still can't believe this issue hasn't been fix by Adobe
Please and thank you. Did a test (i.imgur.com/PaeZTJ9.png) comparing alternatives. These settings on top of the lut came out near perfect.
I want to express my EXTREME gratitude for these settings you provided. Those exact settings combined with the LUT have gotten me pretty much identical to what I am seeing in premiere. THANK YOU SOOOO MUCH!!!!
I HAVE TO APPLY THIS
AFTER LUT OR WITHOUT LUT?
Much appreciated for creating a walkthrough on how to fix it. The most annoying part is that this is just another reason Premiere is infuriating and continuing to go in the wrong direction. You now have to add an extra render-slowing lut onto the footage just to make it look like its supposed to. Why wouldn't they have a check box in the render window for broadcast safe, than forcing everyone to just go that way and add extra steps to to reverse it. its like apple automatically adding the U2 album to every iphone
Not even that necessarily... The QT compensation Lut just adds contrast & dynamic to the footage. So it still doesn't turn out as viewed inside premiere. The end result differs a lot.
The Premiere team claims, that the color mistakes comes from the player inside of premiere itself. Which is a blatant & easily debunked lie.
Oh dude, thank you so much! This has been driving me crazy for so long, trying to oversaturate, over contrast etc to compensate. Now it finally looks right! I appreciate it the info.
You've just changed my whole editing live! thank you so much!
If it makes the footage darker, I'm confused why you're suggesting to apply this lut in the export window and not as an adjustment layer. I have to color correct the darker clips. By using the export window, you have to calculate how much this will darken the clips and apply that calculation to all clips beforehand.
i love you i love you i love you... ive been struggling since... YEARS! and always had to do more contrast and saturation and always fucked up footage and my beautiful gradings never looked like they were... ah... thank you
O M G ! I could literally cry right now. I don't know how many years and ways I've been trying to figure this thing out. But finally! Thank you so, so much.
I was one of those who asked you about this terrible issue. Thank you for having posted the solution.
I am not sure, though, that, once you have applied the LUT in Premiere, it also works if you export the file in Media Encoder. I think you need to import the LUT into Media Encoder LUTs folder before exporting
This has bugged me for literally years. Thank you.
Hi I tried this and it only seemed to add contrast, the colors still seem to be different than in premier
finally!! I have been trying to figure this out forever! Thank You
I usually don't drop comments on UA-cam, but this video deserves it. Saved me tons. Godspeed.
Anybody know if there is such a LUT for Resolve?
Hope this helps you if you've been having washed out colors in your exports from Premiere! 😁
Why I don't have, adjust video colour setting?
@@chef_maruf in your Nvidia Control Panel? I believe this may only work for desktop Nvidia graphics cards, not laptop based Nvidia graphics cards. If you have a laptop with an Nvidia graphics card it won't have as many setting options available.
@@whoismatt Thank you so much for your reply. Yes it's my laptop.
Will play well with Creative LUTs used when grading??
@@RodneyCooperFilmz yes, because it is applied at the end after you color grade it shouldn't cause problems.
Sir..... you literally solve all of my Adobe problems. I am now a loyal subscriber. THANK YOU!
Months of searching I finally found someone that could help me! Thank you so much!
This still doesn't work for me :( Skin tones just went more brown, before they were coming out too yellow... the battle goes on but thanks for trying
same everything is warm for me...any update?
@@aarondabee5573 Try to go first to Preferences --> General ---> check "Enable Display Color Management". You will have to readjust the colours of your video tho but if you then follow the tutorial it will work perfectly :) Let me know
For anyone on Mac OS X Mojave or later who gets a black screen in their preview (and a black screen in any renders too) when using this method, you may need to change your Renderer under File - Project Settings - General. For me, switching it from "Metal" to either "OpenCL" or "Software Only" does the trick. I suspect this is an issue related to older video card support going away on the newer OSes.
Thank you for this, Brian. Was experiencing the same black screen issue, and your tip solved it. Cheers 'n be well.
Thank you!
Thank you very much! I was having trouble with the colors in my exported cooking videos and this will make such a difference.
Thank you kind bearded sir! You saved me. Now my clients will have their videos look the way they should! You're a good man
When I applie Adobes LUT while exporting my Video gets even darker and more contrasty than in my preview. What am I doing wrong?! Help! :D
I have the same problem...aaaaa! its like washed our or darker/more contrasty :D nothing between
i have the same problem, did you fixed?
@@renatocarmona No, i just try to guess how much saturation and contrast i have to add to make it look similar. I gave up :D
@@LuciaBrezianska *Thanks a lot for this! I feel like I've struggled with this issue since day one with Premiere on my Macs. However, when I first added this LUT and exported it didn't work. The exported video was too dark. So I went to Preferences > General > Enable Display Color Management and checked it. Now the LUT makes my exported videos look 98% like inside of Premiere. The hues are sliiiiightly off in the green/magenta balance, but this is the best fix for this issue BY FAR. Just wanted to share that if anyone else tried this fix and it didn't produce the expected results. Thanks again. :)* . taken from another answer from this video.. i do it and have to ajust my grading again but now i have the same contrast and saturation with a little deviation to magentas, but more similar to the original than before
Renato Carmona ou thanks a lot! I will try it ! ☺️and let you guys know if this worked for me :)
THANK YOU FOR MAKING THIS!!!!!!!!
Glad to help bro! 😁
Thanks mate! Sorted it. Was a very clear and concise tutorial, need more like these on UA-cam !
YOU ARE A LIFESAVER i was getting so mad but the NVDIA control panel thing fixed it, no need to apply the adobe LUT
yo man every time I try this it makes the screen go black, only audio no image. :( anyone know why ?
Same
This lut makes my footage look far dark than my actual color correction. It's not accurate.
I have same problem !
Agreed.
I agree. This solution doesn't work at all. Even if you apply the LUT to an adjustment layer (rather than in the final export) and decrease its intensity in order to find a balance, the colors in the final export are different. Any ideas?
Have you tried going to preferences and checking: Preferences > General > Enable Display Color Management?
@@Devilgolem What does this do?
This helps me so much! I have had this problem for a long while and couldn't figure out why! Thanks a lot!!!
Thanks very much Matt! My NVIDIA control panel settings needed adjusting. This helped a lot. Appreciate your to the point tutorials!
Great though it is, I find that this particular LUT goes too far the other way for me and sets the contrast a bit too high.
Same here. Did you find another solution?
@@thibaut1987 Haha sorry that was 5 months ago now and I can't remember as I don't produce vids so regularly. It was definitely something where I compensated manually for the difference in appearance on YT though.
All right. Thanks. I'll try to contact Adobe about that.
don't know if any other windows users had this problem, my nvidia control panel only shows the "3d settings" section and nothing else
same
Same
same
I still haven't found a solution for Nvidia PC users who do not have the video settings in the control panel... :(
Me too
dude.. you are by FAR the best person to learn from. thank you
“It’s just a bug in Adobe.” 😂 you said that in the nicest tone that I’ve ever heard that phrase used. Thanks for the video!! I thought it had to do with the color management profiles. Downloading the LUT now to fix my washed out colors!! You’re awesome.
😂 when you use Premiere for as long as I have, bugs and quirks aren't surprising hahaha.
Thanks for this very helpful video!
I used the compensation LUT for my previous project, but now suddenly this LUT is not enough anymore in Premiere 2021.
Sure, it makes the exported file a bit more saturated and contrasty than without the LUT, but it is still quite undersaturated.
Any ideas? Anyone else noticed this in the newest version of PP?
I have the same issue in Premiere pro 2022. It saves some highlighrs from being blown out but I don't get the same results as in the Premiere Programm preview at all. Anybody has an idea of what is going on ?
Problem is, this doesn't stop Adobe Premiere from messing up the original image to begin with, it just covers it up with a filter.
That's not at all what is going on. Premiere assumes a Rec709 2.4 gamma color space. Macs on the other hand are SRBG 2.2 gamma. It's a color management thing and most users are too amateur to understand this so Adobe slapped a bandaid on the problem.
@@grizzlycat I found out the problem. If you use a JPG or PNG file, the color will be messed up. You have to use a bmp or a psd file to have the gamma show correctly.
@@kizzume that’s not true at all. If your image file is RGB you should be fine. I’d guess the problem you’re running into is CMYK to RGB conversion. And don’t ever use BMP in video work. That’s a super outdated format.
@@grizzlycat No, that's simply not true. It's a bug, one that has been confirmed by Adobe. And yes, BMP is outdated, that's why it sucks to have to use it. Go ahead and do tests yourself. The JPG or PNG will have brightened gamma. This has been a problem since v13. Maybe they've fixed the problem in the latest, I don't know, I haven't wanted to take a chance, since they so often break things in their new releases.
@@kizzume I use PNGs weekly and have for the duration of my 15 year career. You’re obviously encountering user error and I’d recommend digging into color management practices and workflow.
You have the absolute best channel for Premiere PRO understanding and learning BIG respect for you/Mike.
Thanks Mike!
I wish I had seen this before I submitted my short film for Rode Reel!! I was wondering what happened to all my color grading when I posted to UA-cam. Thank you for making this !! Life saver.
I'm on Mac and this hasn't helped at all. Footage still looks really desaturated and washed out, colours are completely off. This is so frustrating!
Same problem. I can't work out how to fix it!
Did anyone solve this problem yet ????
@@augustsandstrom1486 try going to your preferences, and go to the gernal tab. From there make sure 'Display Colour Management' is ticked. That helped me. Colours aren't 100% perfect but they are much better. Like a 95% match I would say
August Sandström Also, try exporting in Premiere as opposed to Media Encoder. For me that helped quite a bit.
@@AndrewLavers mine is still a little washed out
it's too dark now
Same here, please help!
I do this instead ua-cam.com/video/WQdejDD_1_c/v-deo.html
You're a lifesaver! One detail that I needed to enable in the NVIDIA control panel for this to work though: under Change Resolution, make sure under setting 3 for it that you check off 'Use NVIDIA color settings' and in there I had it set to desktop color depth 32 bit, output color depth 8 bpc, output color format RGB, Output dynamic range full.
As much as I don't want to take away from this amazing discovery, has anyone else found that the LUT overdoes it a bit and crushes things too far?
louis Norton Selzer YES
@@evanderlipps I also found out that when I open my exports in VLC rather than QT they look fine. It's the player. not the actual file.
louis Norton Selzer they look the same as QuickTime when uploaded to UA-cam Facebook or instagram. Can’t be just the player. Have to use the LUT to get color right
@@evanderlipps i think it's meta data. YT/FB probably read it the same way as QT player. My colourist sent me a quicktime proress which played with perfect colour and contrast in QT. So there is a way to do it from da vinci with correct colour management setup. Or it's just the LUT and accept the differences.
louis Norton Selzer can you share your davinci process with me?
I still found that the LUT didn't totally return the color to normal. Now it's too shadowy and saturated...
SAME
Yep. It's not really a fix at all
@@DoggyMcDoggerson I went to settings and enabled that check box for Adobe to manage colour (forgot the name) and now with this lut is 99 percent (looks dark in the preview window tho)
Very helpful! Your videos have saved me hours in my editing process. Thank you!
YOU ARE WONDERFUL! ive been looking for this for so many years!! xxx
If it's not working on your 2016+ MacBook Pro, do this:
Command + comma > General > Enable Display Color Management, THEN color grade. If you grade with this unchecked, you're gonna have to regrade.
OR...
If you don't want to regrade everything again, I made a fairly close quick "correction grade":
Add a new adjustment layer on top of everything, Lumetri > +120 saturation, +35 shadows.
Play with these settings. You still need to use the LUT on export as well.
OMG Thank you! I've always hated this problem, but never knew what was going on!
I've been looking for this video for such a long time ! thank you!!!
This worked perfectly!! Simple and easy to follow, thanks so much!
Thank you Matt, you're a very talented and well-spoken bloke. This tutorial was super helpful mate. Cheers
Very useful! Worked fine for us! I'd say it's 95% exact to what the preview window displays. We add this during the export which is a much simpler method than using an adjustment layer. Thanks!
Words cannot describe how helpful this is! Thank you thank you!
Matt! just wanted to thank you!! New content creator and this helped me out with my motivation! you earned my sub!
Awesome! Thank you SO much! I too have been searching for an effective fix to the issue.
Thank you so much for this information. You literally helped me to solve this issue in seconds.
nice! thought i was going mad for a while there. keep up the short informative stuff!
Thanks a lot Matt!!! Your videos are always amazing and super helpful!! BTW, Did you see that now this video is linked in the original Adobe Forum page as instructions on how to use the LUT?
I have the Nvidia control panel, but i don't have the video drop down selection that you have - i only have the 3D settings option available, NOT the Display, Stereoscopic 3D or Video options. Any help would be appreciated
I have been going crazy with this. D/L LUT. Will try tomorrow as on my way out. Thank you for the explanation too. Its helps to understand!
Hi Matt, I did apply the LUT as you explained and it did improve the contrast and saturation a little bit, but the result was still far less saturated and contrasty than the original in Premiere Pro. Do you know why is that and do you have any other suggestions? Thank you.
My god, you are a lifesaver. I always thought there was something wrong with premiere or the way i exported stuff.
You are my hero of the day!
Incredible stuff, just what I have spent the last 5 hours trying to solve. Thanks!
I just encountered this issue tonight for the first time and this fixed things instantly. Thank you!!
Thanks for the help. I knew this was going to help me as soon as I saw the rich colors of this video!
4 years later I found your video and she helps me at a crucial time so thank you
Thank you very much. Great, I've been looking for this for a long time.
Idk what I would do without you!!! THANK YOU
i thought i was blind all this time... thankyou for bringing my sight back
yess!!! this has been a mystery to me for years. thanks Matt
Thanks so much for the information and the correction LUT on Mac. I had trouble with a video recorded on iPhone 13. All the whites were very blown out. With the LUT you provided AND selecting the "SDR Conform" box immediately below the Lumetri Look/LUT selection box that still says "None." I left the SDR Conform settings at default. Did the trick!
Thank you so much this helped a ton
also the 4K rendering video was a massive help too