Footage too dark ONLY on premiere

rawfa

rawfa

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Hi,

Lately I notice that whenever I'm color correcting HD footage it always looks way darker than the original footage. Actualy, I have a TV monitor hooked to the pc and the footage looks dark there too WHEN I'm editing on premiere. When I'm playing the footage straight from the camera or from the orginal captured file on media player classic the TV monitor displays the exact image that was originaly captured. Now get this. When I end color correcting the footage and I export it to whattever format I want to export and then I play it OUTSIDE PREMIERE it's too milky because the only reference I have when I'm color correcting is the premiere monitor and the TV monitor. This is really weird. This is truly a pain in the ass because when I finish color correcting the footage looks perfect ON PREMIERE and ON THE TV MONITOR, but when I export an mpeg or a quicktime and play it back on the pc monitor and on the tv monitor it looks nothing like what I wanted.

Any advice? Maybe there's a way to mess with the brightness and contrast ONLY on premiere. Please, any help is apreciated.
 
Anyone?! I'm seriously considering changing to some other editing software. It's impossible to work like this. There's GOTTA be a way to fix this, to calibrate the colors/contrast on premiere only. I don't want to be FORCED to learn another system when I've been working with premiere for over 7 years.
 
I've been doing some tests and the only way I can make the exported footage look like the footage on the timeline is by exporting an mpeg it using the adobe media encoder. All other options on "export movie" look different. I also tried exporting a frame and it looks ok. The problem is only when I try exporting using "export movie".
 
Premiere doesn't encode quicktime files very well at all. I export an uncompressed quicktime and then encode using either quicktime pro or sorenson squeeze. I only use the adobe media encoder to export mpeg2 for DVD. For that it does a nice job.
 
I just found out a new aditional problem. When I capture the footage on premiere it looks way darker then the original. I played the footage straight from the camera to a TV set and it looked the way it was shot, the way I liked it...but when I captured it on premiere and played it to the same tv set it looked way darker. I copied some tests to my usb stick and tried to view the footage on different computers and it looked dark in all of them.
 
Ok, I just captured footage with Vegas and it still dark. It MUST be something to do with the graphic card. I already reinstalled it but no go. Any advice on a GOOD and FAST graphic card to edit with premiere pro 2.0?
 
At the end it WAS the graphic card. I downloaded the 91.31 forceware and the problem is solved!
 
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