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Highlights oversaturated after export
I’m experiencing a problem where my highlights become oversaturated after I export video to H.264.
Here’s a screenshot from the program monitor in Premiere Pro CC:
and here’s the same frame in VLC player after I export my video to H.264.
It’s evident that something is happening during encoding. What am I doing wrong here?
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5 Replies
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If you open your exported video in Premiere Pro you’ll find it looks exactly the same as the file you exported. I just went through this after months of handwringing and hair pulling. Open VLC and go to tools>preferences and click on the video tab and change “output” from “auto” to “OpenGL video output”. Not “OpenGL video output(experimental)”, that will produce a black screen.
That should result in your video inside VLC looking exactly as it does in the PPro Program Monitor.
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btw if that works, thank Chris Wright, not me!
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Thanks for your suggestion Duke, but unfortunately that didn’t work for me. The problem is consistent across all media players, so the saturation is embedded in the video file.
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Try clipping your highlights down.
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Well, I couldn’t figure out what was causing the problem, so I used a hell of a time consuming workaround. First I exported every shot that had the problem into a TIFF sequence, then I imported the TIFF sequences back into a nested sequence. The resulting TIFF images had a noticeable color offset compared to the original material, so I had to use masks and track mattes to replace every highlight in the shot. This included lots of keyframing to move the masks over the highlights. The result is a good H.264 video that looks exactly like the preview on my program monitor.
I would still like to find quicker solution to the problem, because I don’t want to do this manual patch up every time this problem occurs in the future.
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