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finally have what we always wanted: HEVC support in Adobe Premiere!

Started Dec 2, 2015 | Discussions thread
MikeDPR Regular Member • Posts: 241
Re: Crushed Blacks ..

Happy Daze wrote:

For some reason the H.265 codec in Premiere appears to alter the contrast of the original file of the NX1 resulting in crushed blacks.

I have found that applying the brightness and contrast filter to all clips using these settings brings it back fairly close to the original exposure: brightness -3, contrast -15. (Video Effects, Color Correction, Brightness & Contrast)

Can not fathom how Adobe made such a basic mistake when they have been promising this support for months.

OK, I finally had a chance to run some H.265 files through the latest Premiere Pro.

Yes, I do see crushed blacks IF I play within PP or export to H.264 format and play it with another player (I use the MPC-HC).

If I export to H.265 format, it retains the tone curves perfectly and looks the same as the original source file. And boy does it look fantastic.

This does poses couple of problems:

1. I still want to export to H.264 time to time for sharing purpose. If I tweak the levels in PP to fix the H.264 export output, I'm guessing it will probably degrade the H.265 export output instead. That means I would need two separate PP projects, one for H.264 export and another H.265 export. Not good...

2. If I plan to export to H.265, PP's tone rendering in its editing window is useless. What I see in PP is not what I get in H.265 export output.

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