• Apple Final Cut Pro Legacy

  Color Issues

  Posted by Julian Acosta on December 14, 2009 at 9:07 am

  I am having a problem when I export a clip from FCP 6.0.4, there is a pretty significant shift in color. Maybe it is a gamma shift? The exported clip is much lighter, it has less contrast. The problem started when I installed Snow Leopard. My monitor is a Dell UltraSharp 3007WFP-HC 30-inch. Below is my work flow on most projects.

  1. Shoot RedOne
  2. Compress footage with RedCine to ProRes HQ
  3. Edit FCP 6.0.4
  4. Color Correct in Color and send back to FCP
  5. Export clip from FCP using “Export Quicktime Movie…”

  I have color calibrated my monitor with the Spyder3 Pro. I also tried changing rendering setting in the Video Processing tab of the Sequence Settings. Neither of those worked.

  The only thing that seems to work is changing the color calibration to a preset, Apple RGB, but this makes my monitor very dark and all of my color correction appears too light on other monitors. I understand that an LCD is not the best option for color correction but I don’t have another option right now.

  Also a bizarre occurrence is that h.264 quicktime clips look different in Quicktime 7 than they do in Quicktime X. 7 appears to be accurate.

  Andrew Kimery replied 16 years, 9 months ago 2 Members · 1 Reply
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  Andrew Kimery

  December 16, 2009 at 10:48 am

  You need to be working with an actual broadcast monitor because using a computer monitor hooked up to your GFX card is inaccurate a number of different levels (as you’ve experienced).

  For other Color related Q’s I’d suggest posting them in Apple Color section here on the COW instead of in the FCP section.

  -Andrew

  3.2GHz 8-core, FCP 6.0.4, 10.5.5
  Blackmagic Multibridge Eclipse (6.8.1)

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