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How to deal with Youtube making videos 'pinkish'?

Often my videos that i upload to Youtube turn 'pinkish' when played there. And unfortunately Youtube allows to adjust Yellow-Blue ratio, but doesn't allow one to play with any other colour after upload.

Sometimes i can counteract this 'pinkification' by using the Youtube editor and increasing both brightness and contrast, but since that implies one extra re-encoding step i would like to avoid that if at all possible (also it doesn't always work).

What i have notice is that this happens more often if the video is shot with just slightly insufficient lighting, where the video (as it plays on my computer) appears just a little darker than it should be.

  1. Is this something that is a common problem or is it just my particular approach to recording that causes that?
  2. Can i expect better quality if i re-encode video locally by increasing luma? Or maybe by decreasing red in RGB?
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