All videos are Washed out within iPhoto Library. VERY SERIOUS ISSUE

iPhoto despite showing properly in terms of colours the thumbnails of whatever video, once opened the same immediately turn into totally washed out colours.

I have done some test and gone to iCloud to see the same videos and those are shown properly there. After trying the various download options "Unmodified originals" mode again is showing washed out colours. Same story when I use "highest resolution" mode. The only way to see the proper colours but I suppose losing some quality is the "most compatible" mode. In any case the entire library is a total **** and there's no a command to turn the same with the proper colours.

iMac 27″, macOS 10.13

Posted on Mar 20, 2024 11:14 AM

Top-ranking reply

Matti Haveri

Level 7

20,490 points

Posted on Mar 21, 2024 4:28 AM

Time marches on and you should not expect old devices support the latest and greatest at least by default. But yes, video details might be overwhelming.

I had a similar issue with my old iPad Pro 2016 when HDR footage was displayed as "washed out". I fixed it by converting those HDR clips also to SDR via Final Cut Pro.

I later got MacBook Air 2022 which displays HDR correctly so I have now deleted those duplicate SDR clips from the Photos library.

Turn off HDR in the iPhone so at least new footage displays correctly an old devices. You can re-encode 10-bit HDR as 8-bit SDR H.264 with apps like HandBrake or Shutter Encoder so it should play on older devices (but not on 1980 era Mac Plus etc).

[Edited by Moderator]

View in context

Similar questions

5 replies

Top-ranking reply

Matti Haveri

Level 7

20,490 points

Mar 21, 2024 4:28 AM in response to marceclo

Time marches on and you should not expect old devices support the latest and greatest at least by default. But yes, video details might be overwhelming.

I had a similar issue with my old iPad Pro 2016 when HDR footage was displayed as "washed out". I fixed it by converting those HDR clips also to SDR via Final Cut Pro.

I later got MacBook Air 2022 which displays HDR correctly so I have now deleted those duplicate SDR clips from the Photos library.

[Edited by Moderator]

Mar 21, 2024 12:52 AM in response to marceclo

Usually this is caused by shooting HDR video in a newer device, and then playing it in some older device that does not support HDR.

The clip below relates to Final Cut Pro but has good info (current FCP version has updated its HDR handling workflow).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H4RSS8g5HLU

marceclo Author

Level 1

11 points

Mar 21, 2024 1:59 AM in response to Matti Haveri

I went through that video and It's giving lots of info. But my point is different. I'm using only apple products Mac book pro - iPhone - iPhoto and I wonder why I have to go through all these processes to display properly my videos. That's not acceptable according to me

Mar 20, 2024 11:45 AM in response to marceclo

What format videos are these? What is the source?

marceclo Author

Level 1

11 points

Mar 20, 2024 1:25 PM in response to Keith Barkley

iPhone native videos mostly 4K.

This thread has been closed by the system or the community team. You may vote for any posts you find helpful, or search the Community for additional answers.

All videos are Washed out within iPhoto Library. VERY SERIOUS ISSUE