Exported movie looks different from Canvas

[Shane Ross]

#49 – Quicktime movie lighter than what I see in FCP.

Shane’s Stock Answer #49 – Why is the Quicktime Movie I made much lighter than what I see in my timeline in FCP?

Because it is designed to be bright enough to be seen on most monitors, some that might be too dark. But, if you want to see the same image you see in your FCP timeline, just open Quicktime, and in the Quicktime Player’s preferences window under the General tab you can choose to Enable Final Cut Studio color compatibility.

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[Jennifer Smith]

Thanks for the response.
The problem is that it’s not just in QuickTime. It still looks different when I bring it back into FCP, or burn to a DVD. How do I get what I see?
But, I would like to do that change in QuickTime, how do I get to Quicktime preferences? I don’t see that option on Quicktime 10.0 running Snow Leopard.

[Mark Petereit]

Canvas is NOT intended to represent an accurate view of your project. The only way to get a true view of your project is to run a broadcast monitor connected to a dedicated video board designed for that purpose.

[Roberto Tyszler]

I did that, using the best broadcast monitor that I ever see, a sony BVM 24″, with HD-SDI and SDI input 444 and 422, when I am working with the final cut, I only able to use HD-SDI single link ( 422 ), untill now it is a limitation of the FC6, I have a AJA KONA3 with its breakout box with all input and output with the correct reference generated by an Ensenble Designs frame module, but even with it I still see the diference when I do an Export and than I make the Import of the same Clip or Still Image or a Quicktime.

Whatever is the options for importing or exporting allways !! ALWAYS I got a diferent image after import a single still file or a sequence or a quicktime!!!

If I send the video to an HDCAM (SRW-5500)or a DIGIBETA ( DVW-500) or even to an analog (PVW-2800) I send and call it back with the same color and bright. But just with VIDEO, with DATA that is THE PROBLEM.

I will love if someone have this answer, I am looking for it a long time and anyone can solve it yet!!! At least that I found it.

Thanks for all……

[Mark Simon]

There is a good discussion of this at
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/2545461?start=0&tstart=0

The most popular solution seems to be using JES DeInterlacer which is available free at https://jeschot.home.xs4all.nl/home.html

JES DeInterlacer seems to provide handles for controlling gamma expression. Gamma is not necessarily baked in to the image, but is influenced by metadata that is attached to the file. I’m not deeply knowledgeable here, be warned… It seems FCP is messing with the gamma metadata without letting you decide the specifics. JES DeInterlacer gives you back some control.