• Apple Final Cut Pro Legacy

  How to fix FCP viewer different from quicktime original footage?

  Posted by Rob Lambert on November 9, 2013 at 10:05 pm

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  The images in the picture are from the same source footage, top being FCP viewer and bottom being Quicktime vid clip.

  I took the clip on my desktop and opened it up, then I imported that same clip in to FCP. As you can see the FCP image is displayed much darker. Which brings up the problem of how can I make any adjustments with any certainty if the images I’m adjusting or playing with are not how they are or how they will export out to be?

  I had a friend suggest I calibrate my monitor (which I did using Sypder) – however even if I made my monitor colors green, the images displayed above would still be different shades of green. This makes it an FCP problem and not a hardware problem.

  I made the suggested adjustment in FCP settings from Accurate to Approx without much of a change.

  I look forward to reading any suggestions or workarounds as I am at a complete standstill on how to proceed with my work.

  Thanks in advance

  Rob Lambert

  Rob Lambert replied 12 years, 10 months ago 2 Members · 2 Replies
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  Don Greening

  November 10, 2013 at 4:34 am

  Confucious say “When FCP starts acting weird the first thing to do is trash the preference files.”

  There’s a free program at Digital Rebellion that will to this task for you called Preference Manager. You can find it at the link below.

  https://www.digitalrebellion.com/prefman/

  Try the program and see if this solves the colour issue.

  – Don

  Don Greening
  A Vancouver Video Production Company
  Reeltime Videoworks
  http://www.reeltimevideoworks.com
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  Rob Lambert

  November 12, 2013 at 7:58 pm

  Thanks Don! I’m going to try this – does this reset the software in some way?

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