14" MacBook Pro-Video overexposed in Photography Reference Mode

[Jamooche]

I was editing photos in Lightroom Classic tonight on my 14" 2021 MacBook Pro. I had the display setting in the Photography Reference Mode and everything looked great in Lightroom. I decided to play an iPhone video I had downloaded to the computer and the video is completely blown out, super overexposed with funny colors. I switched the reference mode back to Apple XDR Display and the video looked normal again. The Photography reference mode causes this problem even with my custom brightness settings of 100 and 120. I'm used to a calibrated iMac screen and never had any issues between photos and videos.

Is this normal for the MacBook Pro Photography Reference Mode?
Why does the photography reference mode mess with the video exposure?

And thus, my next question is that when I start editing video on this computer in iMove, what is the best reference mode to use for iPhone and other camera video?

Thanks!

 

[nollic]

Sounds like the "Photography Reference Mode" disables HDR which the iPhone video was shot in.

 

[Jamooche]

Sounds like the "Photography Reference Mode" disables HDR which the iPhone video was shot in.

Thank you very much nollic! I just looked at the video info on my iPhone and it's listed as Dolby Vision which is indeed HDR content. Thanks again for helping solve this confusion!

 

[nollic]

Thank you very much nollic! I just looked at the video info on my iPhone and it's listed as Dolby Vision which is indeed HDR content. Thanks again for helping solve this confusion!

No worries! Happy to be able to help.