Captured Image Too Dark

[Doug Martin]

Jon,

Thanks for the reply – I am familiar with how to correctly calibrate monitors, and have done so with mine. If you look at the screen grab on a decent monitor (as opposed to a 4″ low colour depth display) you will see the difference. Basically the image on the left looks like someone has ramped the gamma up.

What I’m trying to say is that the video output looks fine through VLC on a correctly balanced monitor, but the output of the same file via Premiere Pro on the same monitor is way too dark.

I’ve found a workaround for now – I’ve had to put the two side by side on two identical monitors and raise the gamma on the one running Premiere Pro until it matches the one viewed via VLC player. I’ve now finished the project and it looks fine on both VLC and when burnt to DVD and viewed on an LCD TV.

I now have to re-calibrate my monitor so it’s right again.

From online searching, I’m not the only person to experience this problem, and it’s frustrating to keep seeing the same “calibrate your monitor” response every time when it’s quite obviously a problem within Premiere Pro.

I really don’t want to keep uncalibrating my monitor every time I want to grade footage, but it looks like I will either have to keep doing this or else try and save up for either Avid or a Mac with FCP 🙁