
FCP 10, QuickTime, and certain web browsers all play video back in the same way. This gamma shift is completely dependent on what app you play your video back in, as most users have figured out on their own. This results in lighter blacks and softer whites.Īdobe goes deeper into the issue on their blog: Meanwhile, apps like QuickTime and browsers like Chrome display video in gamma 1.96. When video is displayed in Premiere, the app assumes your monitor is set to Rec709 color space and that your footage was recorded in reference to gamma 2.4, which displays darker blacks and more intense whites. It all comes down to Premiere’s display window. Upon doing approximately minutes of research, I found that Adobe has actually addressed this issue head-on. Now, let’s take a look at why this happens and how to fix it. I was happy to hear I wasn’t alone in facing this issue, because that meant a solution likely already existed. Turns out, it wasn’t just simple eye fatigue. Perhaps I was experiencing the visual version of whatever it’s called when a word is repeated so much that it loses all meaning. Like, maybe my eyes were just worn out from looking at the same images and colors for hours.

This is already graded.īack then, the real problem was that I couldn’t actually tell if this was a real problem. Here’s an example of a shot I captured last winter. As in, there was a pretty significant (at least to an editor’s eye) drop in saturation and, to some degree, contrast.

I don’t remember exactly when I realized I was having this issue, but it was around 2018 that I started noticing my exports were looking a little washed out. Is your exported footage looking a little washed-out? Here’s how to fix Premiere’s weird exporting problem.
