Fix Premiere Color Shift when Exporting H.264 for Vimeo

I have been exporting for YEARS!!! h264 pumping up saturation to compensate for vimeo THANK THANKYOU

Colors stills not the same.. 2.22 is really less saturated

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Thanks bro ❤

I wish Adobe would address this. 4 years in and it's still an issue

Thank you so so much!!! Really helpfull!

you are kidding me.. ive been trying to 'fix' an mkv file for hours!

almost didn't make my upload schedule because of this issue. Thank you for the fix!!!

Oh my gosh thank you much!!!! I was losing my mind trying to fix this. I even called my sister-in-law who does assistant editing professionally and we couldn't figure out why it would be doing this to my colors. When I started a sequence with a regular video recorded from my google phone I had no color problems, but the videos for this channel are recorded on my brother's iphone and I download them from dropbox. I have been doing this for a year and never had a problem until now. When I put his video in a sequence with one of my videos it would show me the awful yellow color that keeps showing up on export. When I started a new sequence his his video it would do something that must correct color because it looked great in my monitor, right up until I pulled up the export screen. Yellow and washed out every time on the preview, no matter what export type I used. The raw footage also looks fine when I watch it before importing to Adobe. I have no clue where this yellowing is coming from. If anyone knows that I would love to know, but in the meantime this fix totally worked for me. I use Adobe Premier Pro on a Windows PC so it's not just a Mac thing. Thanks again.

Play your videos back in VLC media player not Quicktime. Problem solved, VLC plays it back exactly how it looks when exported

It seems to have helped me, thank you :)

This helped me a lot now with the new update of premiere! exporting has been struggling when adjusting color on clips.

Thank you so so much for making and sharing this video.....

thanks man! It worked !! <3

For those of you having the problem in After Effects, find the adjustment layer you are using with "brightness & contrast" applied, tick the "use legacy" checkbox, and adjust as needed. Not sure why but this is the reason its happening, needs to be legacy.

I have the opposite problem. My exporting to the H.264 format oversaturates the image compared to what is on the monitor.

This just TOTALLY wrong. This has to do with Color Space Management. And this is NOT how you solve this.

Bizarrely enough I was constantly having this issue with my 2018 MBP on OSX, I spent hours trying to fix it by exporting at different settings and never managed to solve anything. Since I've switched to a new studio, graphics, 3D and video editing machine on Windows 10 however I'm not having the issue any more. What I see is now what I get.

CHEEEERS MAN! That saved my damn ass :D THANK YOU!

What if the client wants to download the file from Vimeo though...The resulting file will look terrible to them. Good solve for Vimeo only though! I've ended up just doing contrast / sat LUT adjustments built into my encoding presets and it's worked alright.

Just render it in premiere without encoder

Strange, I get a dark blue noise in anything that hits max black when using this, both in h264 and h265.

My video colors come out a lot more saturated?! Any explanation for this? When I export (QuickTime) uncompressed RGB 8 bit the colors are very accurate but the file size is very large & hard for clients to get. I'm trying your method now but I'm sure I'll end up with too much saturation again🤷🏽‍♂️

Thank you so much! Huge help.

i've been trying to resolve this problem for 2 years. every month or so i google to see if something has addressed this issue. finally someone has! thank you!

Unfortunately this hasn't worked for me. The export with High10 and the boxes checked still looks exactly the same as the default h264... There is absolutely no difference.

Also unfortunately I'm locked in to h264 as the files are sent the clients to upload as they please.

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Mu understanding is quicktime forces your video into a 16-235 space when it's originally a 0-255 space, because quicktime is generally garbage. So, it's more a contrast issue than a gamma shift. Not sure how to avoid it except to avoid quicktime altogether for things.

AFTER HOURS OF SEARCHING. finally someone with a simple fix

I rarely comment on videos but this was a LIFESAVER. Thank you so much!

is this a bug that just started? Before hand i never had problems it wasnt until recently i now have desaturated videos in premeire pro exports.

i did a test and when rendering from After effects as uncompressed RGB (8 bit) it works. All the color correction is there when rendering using this format options. I had to use dynamic link from Premiere though.