Premiere CC Desaturating / Recoloring ALL My RED Footage [Examples Included]

[Tony Aaron II]

I just realized Premiere CC has been dramatically desaturating ALL of my footage in the stills and media I export. And I stress dramatically. All footage is shoot on my RED Scarlet camera at 4K, and is in a 4K sequence. No color correction settings or plugins have been added to any footage.


In the attached picture below, the top left image is a frame exported from the image in the viewer. The bottom right image is the media export dialogue. And the bottom left image is the last version of the film I exported in Premiere CS6.

In this next picture I am attempting to export an interview and the color is CLEARLY COMPLETELY DIFFERENT from the image shown in the program viewer.

I need this fixed ASAP.

 

[Richard Tran]

Please?

 

[Matt Gottshalk]

What format are you exporting to?

 

[Paul Russell]

Exporting 4K (4096 x 1714) footage to 8-12Mbps H.264 will drastically cut down your colour depth. Try it at level 5 50Mbps.

 

[Alexander Mejia]

It sounds like you may be running into a color management issue.

Keep in mind that Premiere Pro is not color managed at all, but the picture viewer applications in OS X will be. By default, macs come with a color profile for the display they have, so it should look slightly different.

External monitoring is good to have in Premiere untill they get some level of color management built in.