I edited Sony FX5 XOCN RAW on the cheapest laptop Apple makes, a fanless M5 MacBook Air. DaVinci Resolve handled three stacked RAW tracks without breaking a sweat, Premiere Pro came close, and Final Cut Pro could not open the video at all.
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Two years after Adobe flew me out to hear my complaints, here is what they have fixed, what they still have not, and the pricing decision that makes no sense.
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Change Viewer Gamma to 2.2 (Web) and you have probably fixed it. If not, here is Adobe’s free compensation LUT, the QuickTime gamma explanation nobody tells you about, and the Nvidia setting that washes out PC exports.
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The exact Premiere Pro export settings I use on every 4K video, walked through one setting at a time, plus how to save them as a preset so you only do this once.
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How to set up color management in Premiere Pro so log footage from any camera comes in with contrast and saturation automatically, and stays that way on every project after.
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Six rounds of Warp Stabilizer against the DaVinci Resolve stabilizer: how you apply them, how fast they analyze, how good they look untouched, and the export mistake that once ended up on a Times Square billboard.
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