BY LOGAN BAKER | Premiumbeat
Is your exported footage looking a little washed-out? Here’s how to fix Premiere’s weird exporting problem.
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. As in, there was a pretty significant (at least to an editor’s eye) drop in saturation and, to some degree, contrast.
Here’s an example of a shot I captured last winter. This is already graded.
Back then, the real problem was that I couldn’t actually tell if this was a real problem. Like, maybe my eyes were just worn out from looking at the same images and colors for hours. Perhaps I was experiencing the visual version of whatever it’s called when a word is repeated so much that it loses all meaning. (Nougat. Nougat. Nowgut. Wait, what?)
Turns out, it wasn’t just simple eye fatigue. It was, in fact, a thing. It was common, even. I was happy to hear I wasn’t alone in facing this issue, because that meant a solution likely already existed.
Now, let’s take a look at why this happens and how to fix it.
Read Adobe’s blog about why this happens here: https://forums.adobe.com/docs/DOC-9952 😁
Download Adobe’s Correction LUT from my site: http://go.whoismatt.com/washedoutcolo…
My Video Export Settings: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list…