HDR Encoding Guide for Premiere Pro

    I just don't understand why they would. They mentioned pixel formats clearly specific to HDR workflows, based on what I quoted from post 78 above. Why would they mention that but then shut down any questions about that? If they just wanted their own exporters to use those formats, I wouldn't think they would be mentioned at all.

    It took longer than I thought (I managed to almost kick the bucket and get two major surgeries in the meantime) but I'm finally back to trying to make HDR work. I completely removed all Adobe and Voukoder Pro from the system, reinstalled both using the latest 2026 versions, and created a new project just to test this. No matter what settings I change, I ether get no HDR at all (washed out colors) or the same slightly brightened result as earlier:

    Is it possible to ask somebody to run their own test on this exact video sample? https://filebin.net/mq9kwzze56ohy22t

    If the HDR looks good from the first glance, please make sure to open the original and compare them either side by side or by quickly switching between the two windows, because the difference is easily to miss from memory. If you output looks identical, could you please share your exact settings for the process?

    Premiere has color settings in:
    • Modify → Color
    • Sequence Settings → Color Management (plus the Advanced collapsible section)
    • Project Settings → Color

    Voukoder Pro has color settings in:
    • Video Input → Colors
    • Video Encoder → HDR
    • Video Encoder → encoder settings (for LIBX265, I tried "colorprim=bt2020:transfer=arib-std-b67:colormatrix=bt2020nc" as X265 params and • yuv420p10le as the format)

    Sorry to ask, but I've already spent hours on this myself, even blindly trying different variations off all the settings above at some point, and have nowhere else to turn. If somebody could take a look and point me in the right direction, I'd greatly appreciate it.