And are pretty hacked about the Macosphere having a separate color management setup. I work with and teach pro colorists, most of whom work on Macs, and they can't find a way 'around' this.

But on some new Macs with the newest OS, it's not apparently workking all that well. Of course, on any non-Mac computer, that file will look too dark, contrasty, and over-saturated. and will darken the file and raise saturation so on many Macs it looks 'like it should'. Sadly, that's about the best options you have.Īdobe provides a 'gamma compensation LUT' that is to be used on export. So if you want to check the file, do so by re-importing into Premiere, or get it to someone with a fully calibrated/profiled system and see what they see in your file. I've been told by some that VLC actually can ignore ColorSync, and at times with it's own 'control' of the image might show a fairly correct image, but I've got no Mac gear to test that on.

This tells PrPro to look at the ICC profile of the monitor, and remap the image shown to as close as possible to Rec.709 standards.Īfter exporting, the file will look 'washed out' and/or desaturated because of the way ColorSync will display it within QuickTime on a Mac. Hard-wired.īut on the Macs, you NEED to set the 'display color management' option in the Preferences to on. With one, you don't need to worry about color management, it's built in. Premiere Pro is built using on bog-standard pro broadcast Rec.709 systems. plus they use what they call 'sRGB gamma' which is unspecified but various knowledgeable types have reverse-engineered it to be between 1.95 and 1.96. Rec.709 calls for sRGB primaries, D65 white point, both the scene-referred transform function AND the display-referred transform function, gamma 2.4 (2.2 in bright-room viewing is ok), and 100 nits brightness for the monitor.Īpple's ColorSync utility only applies the scene-referred transform but not the also required display transform (yea, that's a biggie). in application of color management standards. The reason for Chris' questions is simply that the great minds at Apple decided to be unique, as always.

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