Color grade in Pr preview doesn't nearly match my exported H.264 file

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Color grade in Pr preview doesn’t nearly match my exported H.264 file
Jeff Arthur updated 2 years, 4 months ago 4 Members · 7 Posts
Adobe Premiere Pro
Jeff Arthur
September 11, 2018 at 8:48 pm
I have been using Premiere for a long time but recently started using LUTS and getting into grading. Has anyone run into the problem where the grade you see in the preview is completely different than the exported file??? I tried exporting using H.264 and as a Quicktime file but both are coming out very flat- almost like the LUT isn’t taking. If someone could help or post a link where this has been discussed before I would appreciate it. Screenshots are below of the difference.
Example1:
In Pr

H.264 Export

Example2:
In Pr

H.264 Export

http://www.silencefilms.com
Shane Ross
September 11, 2018 at 9:39 pm
How are you viewing that exported file? IN QT? It’s highly inaccurate…wrong, busted. Use VLC player, see what it shows.
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Jeff Arthur
September 12, 2018 at 12:04 am
[Shane Ross] “How are you viewing that exported file? IN QT? It’s highly inaccurate…wrong, busted. Use VLC player, see what it shows.”
Thanks for responding. I only use VLC for viewing media. I wonder if there are some settings for making sure the LUT is applied that I am missing? This seems to be a widespread issue.
http://www.silencefilms.com
Chris Wright
September 12, 2018 at 1:19 am
this should work for the latest premiere:
Mac: /Library/Application Support/Adobe/Common/LUTs
/Creative
/Technical
Win: \Program Files\Adobe\Common\LUTs
\Creative
\Technical
Jeff Arthur
September 12, 2018 at 4:15 am
Thanks all. Youtube University helped out again!!! Long story short- you have to make sure your LUTs are copied into Media Encoder too- assuming you export from there!
http://www.silencefilms.com
Tim Taylor
September 14, 2018 at 4:38 pm
God bless YouTube U! Thanks for posting the answer. Id have never thought of that.
Tim Taylor, Producer/Editor
RESolution Media Services, LLC
Jeff Arthur
September 14, 2018 at 9:51 pm
Here is the video in case anyone runs into this issue.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yskE8bId72M
http://www.silencefilms.com
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