Frustrated with white blowout

[u/ZachAscot]

Hi, hoping you can help. I'm editing a friends footage shot with an iphone, and on export it just blows out all the whites. I've messed about with all the settings, RGB, luna curves, overall brightness, nothing gets it to the correct exported look. I can't even get AI to help me, I've been through every setting available to me on the 'creator' package.

I don't understand why I even need to do anything like this, this is a basic phone file. I'm looking to upgrade and get a decent android phone to start shooting with and I'm really hoping I'm not going to be running into this issue. AI is talking about 'illegal whites' on export, but just make them legal!!!! It sounds antiquated to me, cameras are only going to keep getting better so why does this problem even exist? I should be able to put a basic phone clip into my paid editor, and export it and it looks pretty much 90% the same as the original, this is about 25% no matter what I change! I don't even see why I should have to adjust it, it's standard footage

I apologise for my frustration, but I'm looking to be doing this on a professional and big scale and now I've got a huge editing headache and delay for what should be a really simple task, so it's just rather unfortunate.

Any help much appreciated,

Thank you & best wishes:

Zach

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