Losing Superwhites

[Jarle Leirpoll]

Aha! MOV wrapper is a bad thing.

HDV is MPEG, and should be stored as MPEG files. FCP does wrap it in MOV just because, well – it has to. When Premiere imports a .MOV file with MPEG, it uses the 32-bit QuickTime importer (from Apple). Bad things can happen because Apple doesn’t want PC users to have much fun. If Premiere imports an .MPEG file on the other hand, it will use its own built-in 64-bit MPEG-importer. Good things will happen.

Just so others can learn from your experience; Could you try renaming a few of the files from .MOV to .MPG and re-import and see if that magically restores the super-whites?

[Mike Jackson]

YOU NAILED IT. Renaming the HDV as .mpg instead of .mov brought back my superwhites!

That’s kind of hilarious… and a shame it took so long to sort out, as I burned a lot of time transcoding the footage to ProRes, and the show is already delivered.

Still, great to know what the issue is, and how to resolve it!