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Rendering in Rec 709 From Premiere Pro
Hi,
I shot some footage on a Canon 60D and I’ve edited it on Premiere Pro CS6. I colour corrected the footage using scopes to make sure the colours and levels didn’t go over the limits for broadcast safe.
Now i need to render it to Apple Pro Res 422 with the Rec 709 colour space, and I don’t even know what that is or how to achieve it. I set it to Apple Pro Res but I don’t see an option to set the colour space.
How do you ensure your footage is in Rec 709?
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[Chimanlal Charlie] “How do you ensure your footage is in Rec 709?”
HD should always be Rec. 709. This is not something you’d need to worry about setting somewhere in Premiere.
Walter Soyka
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REC 709 color space is for HD sized material; SD sized material uses REC (formerly CCIR) 601 color space. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rec._709#Primary_chromaticities
Premiere/AME will render anything larger than SD in REC 709 colors. ProRes supports 709 (as you’d expect) and Premiere will mark the color space in the QuickTime container with the correct primaries, so there’s nothing to set. Pretty much any container Premiere would export at HD size will be either explicitly or implicitly REC 709, although some older containers (e.g. MPEG-2) have export settings to allow you to change the color primaries in the export settings, though I can’t imagine why you would.
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