After video export the .mp4 movie looks strange - as any video effect is plugged - the red color turns to blue, blue turns to yellow …a lot funny. It is the same - no mater which player I use after that - Windows media Player or VLC Media Player.
I switched from Win 7 to Win 10 - fresh copy. After that I installed Cubase Elements 10.5 - fresh copy.
The imported video is from my smartphone and the format is .mp4.
Before import in Cubase the colors looks normal.
After import in Cubase and playing it - the view in Video player (F8) looks normal
After the export … everything is filtered - red turn in blue, blue in yellow …???
The video card is Nvidia Quadro K2000. I even updated the driver - current version is from 24.02.2020 - the result is the same.
After different tests made - the result is that this color-filtering effect after export comes only for movies made from one device (smartphone). Clips made from other devices don’t have such effect after export.
The file format is the same - mp4 but the effect is different - not clear why. For now partly the problem is solved.
Working with ProRes video doesn’t seem to have that affect, it might be that some mp4 videos are using non standard color specs.
Regardless, ProRes is much more responsive when you scroll/scrub back and forth during editing, and playback is much smoother in general. Plus it consumes significantly less system resources then mp4 videos. With all that in mind, I see no reason why would I ever want to trouble myself this mp4 in my projects.
After swapping the red channel and the blue channel of the wrong-colored video, everything looks ok!
There’re two ways to fix the color problem:
(1) You can use Channel Mixer in Premiere or After Effects by setting 4 parameters as follow to resolve the problem:
red-red: 0
red-blue: 100
blue-red: 100
blue-blue:0
(2) Use the video editor “VideoMach”. There’s a filter named “Swap Red And Blue” in this software.
Hi there!
I’m experiencing the same problem. I use ShareX to capture my screen. When I import those mp4-files to Cubase (Version 12.0.50) the colors look normal (picture 1). Sometimes the video player in Cubase displays the file with unwanted distortion (picture 2). After exporting the video the colors change as mentioned above (picture 3).
@Martin.Jirsak is there a workaround or a plan to fix this issue?
greets!
It’s not even related to a specific codec.
I also work with videos recorded by ShareX. About 90% of them is OK but 10% (not an accurate percentage) has a colour bug. I guess it must be related to captured colour palette but I have no idea really.
We need this fixed, it’s a little embarrassing sending clients inverted video! Any news on this? Still happening with the latest version of Cubase 13… randomly I should add!
WOW… Seriously? Is this issue goes all the way 3 years ago , since Cubase 10.5? No any other solution than manually correcting \ inverting the colors in cubase plugin or elsewhere?
I am relatively new to cubase, and have the same issue while exporting video. Any solutions? work around? (I am using Cubase pro 12)
10x.
It’s true that the video export is far from perfect in Cubase/Nuendo, but in my experience, most color problems occur when using non-standard video dimensions. The best practice is to import only 1920x1080 videos.
Nevertheless, if you only export the video to include your mix with it, you should check out the ER Media ToolKit I created. It’s far faster than any DAW and supports almost any video type. Plus, you can use it to replace the audio while converting the original video into a smaller version of itself.
Is it fixed yet?
Seriously I have patience but this is starting to be really annoying. It looks unprofessional to send videos to clients with changed colors. I look unprofessional too by using Cubase PRO.
Unfortunately, it must be buried somewhere on Jira in the backlog and probably will never be touched because most Cubase users don’t use video.
I’m not sure because I always convert my videos into 1920x1080 before I import them into Cubando and never had an issue.
However, even if it is fix, I would expect it to happen only in v13 or the upcoming v14, as the other versions are no longer supported (no maintenance updates).
By the way, in my humble opinion, professionals are people who know how to overcome technical difficulties such as this. I mentioned my workaround above and it works even if Steinberg wouldn’t fix this issue in the near future.
In game development, I do a lot of quick demo videos. I’m screengrabbing them from the game engine where the window is not natively 1920x1080. Or I’m importing videos from QA which are often taken from the phones. We’re talking about even several videos per day.
All the additional processes that I would need to do to get what other DAWs do without any problem are, in my opinion, unacceptable and it would slow down my workflow and delivery times. Anyway, I already have to convert rendered videos twice because Cubase renders are huge. It’s already one step more than I should have to do.
Time is money and any time I have to spend on making workarounds, because the software is buggy I’m losing that precious time.
I know the fastest solution, it’s called “Logic” but I prefer to stay with Cubase which I’ve been using for ages already.
