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  • Export is much darker than my edit.

    Posted by Matthew Sonnenfeld on February 15, 2012 at 5:32 pm

    Im not sure why this is happening but when I export my footage out of Premiere Pro CS5.5, the resulting file plays back significantly darker than the original. Can anyone suggest how to get a more faithful export?

    I am working with cineform HD files converted to black and white in Cineform FirstLight with one of the B&W film emulators and with a 4:3 matte also applied in FirstLight. In premiere I am working in an AJA sequence and monitoring everything over my IoXT to a quality monitor. Everything looks more than clear when I am working in Premiere, but a cineform export, a ProRes 422 export, an mpeg-I export, and an H.264 export, all just goes dark.

    Panasonic HPX170 P
    2011 Macbook Pro 17″, 2.3 Ghz Quad Core, 8GB RAM
    AJA IoXT
    Adobe Premiere Pro CS5.5, Final Cut Pro Studio 3, Avid Media Composer 3.5.4
    The College of WIlliam and Mary

    Darren Dressels replied 14 years ago 3 Members · 2 Replies
  • 2 Replies
  • Angelo Lorenzo

    February 15, 2012 at 7:33 pm

    Are you playing the export in Quicktime or roundtripping it and playing it back in Premiere?

  • Darren Dressels

    April 15, 2012 at 2:27 am

    I’m having a similar problem editing mts files. All of my exports are significanly darker than they appear in PPro.

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