I’m using shotcut since some year.
In my current project, all clips coming from my Samsung Galaxy S23 handy get extremly bright. Normal MP4 files, no HDR. The original files are correctly exposed. Inserting JPG pictures works, they look the same.
All other MP4 clips from GoPro and Lumix camera are okay.
Maybe your video is HDR. Shotcut does not support HDR video, and it needs to be converted to SDR using Properties > Convert. Maybe we do not understand you because you did not provide much information. Consider including a screenshot that shows the video opened with Shotcut Properties panel and the player with bad color.
Thanks. I edited my inquiry and added a pic.
That looks like log footage. Was the Filmic Pro app used to record video? It may have used the LogV3 curve.
if it is Log gamma, WIndows Media Player shown in the first screenshot does not know how to convert the color because a LUT or transform is used with that. To me, it looks like HDR, which I already explained is not supported directly and must be converted.
I suggested you to show Shotcut Properties and try using Properties > Convert, and you did not do either of those.
Here is an example comparison against Windows Media Player with PQ HDR
See Properties > Color transfer. Normally, by default, when you open such a file in Shotcut, it shows this dialog:
However, if you dragged multiple files to Playlist or Timeline it is not as obvious and must show a multi-file dialog:
In the above, I am showing the tool tip for the gold exclamation point–not very obvious, I know, but there is only so much we can do.
If you clicked the checkbox “Do not show me this anymore.” for some previous reason (such as variable frame rate warning), then neither of those appear. Because that is the Convert dialog, which can appear for several reasons.
And in case you got lost reading all of that…
Use Properties > Convert
Hello again. You were right about HDR. There was an update for the S23 Camera which I installed, and now it films in HDR. Didn’t get that before.
After a while of confusion I managed now to convert the files, and the result is good.
Thank you so much for your explanations.