Amsterford wrote: Have no idea what I'm doing wrong. Source video file opened in QT doesn't match to DVR Viewer.
The same issue still persists in my system.
Using "Mac Viewer Color Profile" and timeline to "Rec. 709-A" doesn't make any difference at all for my 2019 iMac 27". No matter if importing AVCHD, XAVC, MP4 or MOV, the Resolve-viewer is always extremely oversaturated and dark compared to
every other application on the Mac. All browsers (Firefox, Safari) and players (QT,VLC,IINA,Adobe) just as iMovie, Lightroom, Luminar and DXO are showing very similar, respectively identical colors and contrast, but Resolve does not. Applying any Luts to the Color Lookup Table doesn't help and switching from Resolve 16.1 to 16.2.2 even made it worse. Under these circumstances, it seems questionable to lay all the blame on the Mac, isn't it?
I started using Resolve this year, loving it so much, but this problem is getting me down. I'm not a professional and color profile-evaluating isn't easy stuff to me. However- there is no issue with export of files. Ignoring the color edit in Resolve or just import-export files isn't causing any problems. Source files and rendered files always look the same, no matter what player will be activated. It's just the Resolve-viewer driving me crazy...
Regarding your screenshot-samples, I wonder about the very little differences between them. I would be glad having that! In my case, I would have to lower color saturation from 50 to 35 in the Resolve color module just for playback to match the colors of QT-, IINA- or VLC-player. Exporting this way would result in an almost black and white movie, so I have to readjust, guess and estimate whatever I'm doing with color grading and edit in Resolve.
What am I doing wrong?
Thank you very much in advance for any help!
Normann