Premiere Pro 22 color management problems

scorsesefan

scorsesefan

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I recently upgraded from PP 15>22 and my slog3 footage shot on my FX6 is being interpreted correctly (rec 709) but my A7SIII slog3 footage is not. It has the neutral unsaturated look from the older versions of PP where the color space is not recognized. Any thoughts? Thanks
 
When you first import your footage you will have to select all of the affected clips and right click for the contextual menus. Then you pick modify>interpret footage. From there you will see color space options at the bottom. I believe you pick rec709 for the fx6 footage and it will go back to being displayed as the flat and desaturated log we are used to working with. Conversely, you could probably select the a7siii footage and tell premiere to interpret it as slog3.cine.

I would probably do the fx6 method and work with a transform lut on an adjustment layer just like normal to be honest. I'm not sure if the new color space management is applied last in the processing chain as Adobe has done a poor job of communication on this new feature. I typically like to color my footage in a scene refered way (before it gets transformed to rec709) rather than a display referred method (adjustments after transforming to rec709).
 
I upgraded versions, so I haven't imported footage in the new version yet. PP doesn't seem to read the clip metadata for the a7siii footage -- particularly its color space. Maybe because the a7siii uses a "consumer" codec?
 
It's the same with FCP with some cameras; ignores LOG footage and leaves it as is while with something like a C200 it automatically applies a transformation LUT.

There was another thread here somewhere, months ago, that I responded to where someone had a similar question and it turns out there may have been some bugs in Premiere (at that time, in that version) with the handling of some Sony footage and LUTs. (I'm not sure.)
 
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