Exported video colors differ from original

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@notsmoothsteve

Your camera vendor may also have a program to do this conversion.

He is using iPhone and asked about QuickTime Player which cannot convert it to SDR, but I believe Final Cut Pro can. Of course, so do other tools as you pointed out.

In any case, read our docs:

Editing HDR Source Clips

Introduction Some users report that their clip looks “washed out” or “pale” in Shotcut compared to media players. This is often because the clip is encoded as High Dynamic Range (HDR). Shotcut has very limited support for editing HDR, and most users do not want to bother with HDR output. So, HDR clips can be converted to SDR that Shotcut can edit. Identifying HDR Clips To identify HDR clips in Shotcut, open the clip and view the Properties panel. In the properties panel, look for the “Color t…