[Alex Bond]

Premiere pro ignores whatever colour settings I set the iMac to. When you cycle through the display options you can see all the windows changing colour EXCEPT the programme window which reverts back to the same look in every setting.

[Alex Bond]

Does it? Are your exports the correct colour?

[Alex Bond]

I have an iMac Pro, latest IOS latest CC – I cannot export videos correctly from it so I’m not over the moon.

I am having to add a ‘fake’ grade to exports so they come out correctly as Premiere is washing out colours. Currently speaking to Adobe about it – Apple washed their hands of it pretty quickly.

[Alex Bond]

Colin, did you sort this issue?

I’ve just invested in an iMac pro and have found the same issue so obviously I’m not happy.

You may have seen my thread(s) on Adobe’s Community but the outcome so far is this:

Premiere Pro Ignores the colour profile of the iMac – you can see the Programme window reverting back to what it thinks is correct when you click through the different display profiles within the iMac’s settings while all other windows change colour.

If this does not have a solution then it is not possible to edit with Adobe on an iMac Pro – which I find hard to believe.

[Alex Bond]

I have just run the following test, which to me confirms it is a Premier Pro export issue:

Set iMac Monitor display profile to “iMac”
Export file from premiere pro to H264 (or anything, it really doesn’t matter)

Open H264 in Quicktime and put it next to the Premiere Pro Programme monitor for comparison.
The two video images are different – the export is washed out.

Leave everything on screen, in place – not even moving windows around – open Display profile settings for iMac and CHANGE them to sRGB IEC61966-2.1

The Exported QT movie is now the same as the Premiere Programme monitor – to clarify, the QT file changes but the Premiere Pro Programme window remains the same. – Flick back and forth between the monitor settings and the QT movie changes but NOT the Premiere Pro image.

When the H264 is uploaded to Vimeo and I look at Vimeo on a different device Vimeo displays the altered exported image – ie, the more washed out version. If I open Vimeo on the iMac and flip between the colour profiles I can see the colour changing on the uploaded video.

Whatever the iMac is showing pre upload doesn’t really matter – Premier Pro is NOT exporting the same looking video that you see on the screen within Premiere Pro. Given that you cannot know where the film will be shown it MUST come out as Premiere Pro intended it – so this remains the problem – How do you export what you see in Premiere Pro so it looks EXACTLY the same.

[Alex Bond]

HI, it’s washed out significantly. I’ve never had this issue before – take the same project and footage and export it on an old laptop – no issues. Must be something to do with the iMac Pro

[Alex Bond]

Hi Bill,

That’s very useful, thank you.

I cannot imagine why it’s been programmed to change from timeline to viewer automatically – it does it after I make any change to the timeline – it’s very rare for me to do just one thing on the timeline and then need to zoom in and out on the viewer – in fact it’s very rare for me to need to zoom in and out of the viewer AT ALL so it’s bizarre function.

Thanks for the help 🙂

[Alex Bond]

Looks like I’m not the only one having this problem.

https://www.fcp.co/forum/4-final-cut-pro-x-fcpx/24369-zoom-function-switching-to-viewer-while-working-on-timeline

It’s incredibly annoying as I have to keep stopping to click back in the timeline to re-activate the zoom on THAT.

when I’m working in the timeline I’m zooming in and out all the time – I don’t want FCPX to change the zoom to the viewer by itself!

[Alex Bond]

I think it’s a glitch due to my reprogramming the keys – it seems like there are a lot of options in the command Editor, when I type ‘zoom’ into the editor search box I have 4 Zoom in shortcuts, 4 Zoom out, Zoomt to Fit, Zoom to Samples and Zoom tool. There are too many Zoom In Zoom Out commands and I’m sure the software is getting confused.

Must be a choice thing re your zoom preference – I can’t see a faster way than plus or minus!

Cheers though

A.

[Alex Bond]

As a caveat to that, I’ve worked out exactly when this happens:

Zoom in or out on the timeline
Move/trim a clip or slug (ie interact with the timeline)
Zooming in or out again with the same keys will now activate the Viewer zoom – not the timeline zoom.
Click back into the timeline and zoom will again work on the timeline.

I’d like to set it so it never reverts to the viewer on the zoom – is that possible?

Cheers

Alex