Spent three days fixing a simple color profile mismatch on a video project

I was editing a short film for a local theater group in my spare time. Everything looked fine on my monitor, but when we projected it for a test, all the skin tones looked sickly green. I thought it was the projector at first, but it was a color space issue. My editing software was set to Rec.709, but the footage from their camera was shot in a weird log profile I didn't recognize. I had to manually match the color by eye, shot by shot, because the automatic correction looked awful. It took me three full days to get it looking natural again, when I thought it would be a two-hour fix. Has anyone else had a project derailed by something that should have been simple, like a technical setting?

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the_piper1mo ago

Ugh, color spaces are the worst. I feel your pain on that one.

matthewbarnes1mo ago

Which project is it killing?