Why is my image sequence appearing darker in the VSE than in the render output window? I'm having a weird problem with the VSE in Blender 2.90. I am rendering a night time scene using the physical atmosphere addon, with a very bright emissive object that passes through the sky. When I try to use the rendered image sequence in the VSE though, it appears much darker than it does in the viewport or when I replay the animation with ctrl+F11. I simply opened up a preset &quot;video editing&quot; workspace, then used shift+a to add the image sequence. I am experiencing the same problem with both cycles and EEVEE renders. Render format is the default PNG.
What might cause this behavior?
You'll need to set View Transform to Standard(and not Filmic).

If you use the Video Editing template at start-up or through File - New - Video Editing it'll be set to Standard from the beginning.