• Apple Final Cut Pro Legacy

  DVCPRO HD looks darker once imported than in log&transfert(FCP)

  Posted by Stefano Bianchi on April 14, 2010 at 7:47 pm

  Hi everybody, and thanks.
  Problem already talken here, I’ll try to add my experience, let’s see if can lead somewhere.

  Camera: Panasonic AG-HPX 171
  Monitor LCD 8′ Panasonic BT-LH80WUE P (https://adcom.it/public/images/big/BT-LH80W-1.jpg)
  Laptop: Apple, Mac Book Pro 17′.
  FCS 2.

  I’m shooting some tests with my new camera, new monitor, new laptop (wow!). Tests has been shooted in a club with live music and the stage was not well lighted, so I would say that the light condition wasn’t the best. Anyway, with a +6 gain on the camera, the LCD external monitor, a quite good one I guess, was giving me back a readable image for what concerns lightness and colors (this my eyes told me watching at the screen). In real quite similar to the lcd monitor of the camera.

  Then I opened log and transfer window in final cut pro, and the shoot appeared darker (on the computer monitor), but, more worse, once transferred on the computer, and opened in the fcp timeline, the images were completely dark, unreadable (if we exclude the stronger fonts of light, as advertising backlighted logos etc).

  Now, I wonder, if as said in the previous threads, a good high quality monitor can be the only sure source from watching our shoot, what my external 8′ lcd monitor was telling me while I was shooting… I mean, it’s not a cheap monitor, and Panasonic doesn’t present it as consumer equipment. So, the only answer I can give to myself, is that fcp is not able to handle dvcpro hd footage as well as it’s said it should. Ok, you could replay me that I can’t pretend to edit anything with only a laptop, even if the best laptop produced by Apple. Maybe it’s right. Then I will ask you: I’ll forget about the editing, and I’ll think only to shooting. But how can I be sure that what I’m shooting will be really as it looks like on my external lcd monitor then?

  I know there’s surely an answer, and that my awareness of this matter is not at its top. So, I would be so grateful to you all, if please, someone could explain me with easy words (and maybe in a detailed way) how to handle this hot potato, before finding myself in embarrassing troubles one day.

  Thank you very much for the time you spent reading this post, and more for the one you’ll dedicate to give me an answer.
  My best regards,
  Stefano Bianchi

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