FCP 7 suddenly video in Viewer & Canvas incredibly dark/severe gamma.

[Madeline Lalande]

Oh my god thank you so much for figuring this out. I have spent the last hour bawling my eyes out thinking that my ColorMunki installation corrupted my entire graduate thesis. I can’t thank you enough.
All fixed!

[Luc Detours]

Incredible Grayson !!!

I have this gamma problem for years ! Thought it was whithout solution !
Thanks a lot !

Just changing from “accurate” to “approximate” is working perfectly ! It’s absolutely stupid !

Does anyone knows if this problem is solved in FCP X ?

[Zach Fine]

Thanks so much for this tip. I had the exact same problem in FCP7 just now, and switching the gamma correction to “Approximate” fixed the issue. Switching it back to “Accurate” just reintroduced the problem, so I’m sticking with “Approximate” for now.

[Grayson Markle]

Hello again,
So I actually am having similar issues again and not even the changing the Gamma Correction to Approximate is working. I think however, I may have just isolated the issue a bit further. Again, not sure why this is, but here it is. The issue mostly appears when I am trying to edit with the sequence setting put on the H.264 compression (In Sequence Settings), when I change it to a different compression (I usually use Apple ProRes22 HQ), the issue takes care of itself. Well, I hope this has been helpful (if anyone finds out why this thing is happening in the first place, please let me know!). May your project get finished before the your computer is thrust through the nearest open window.

Grayson M.

[Jacob Heldt]

hope you can use this:
https://discussions.apple.com/message/19732113#19732113

[Jacob Heldt]

gamma problems in Final cut 7 – solution.

[Shiloh Heyman]

Final Cut Pro/System Settings/Playback Control. Change Gamma Correction from Accurate to Approximate worked for me. Thanks Grayson!!!!! BTW going back to accurate just messes it up again for me to. Funny though, “Accurate” has NEVER been accurate in any version, so leaving it at approximate is fine with me. I wish there was a NONE option that would solve all of FCP7’s Gamma issues. FCP7’s Color Management has been more harmful than helpful IMO. Wish I could turn it off now that OS X is 2.2 Gamma.

[Nate Wooldridge]

your first solution worked for me. changing the display settings was all I had to do. I had the horrible gamma darkness on my final cut 7.0 for a few months and couldn’t figure it out! thanks for help!

[Pablo Villegas]

Thanks! I had the same issue today! But using an i1 Display 2… It looks terribly dark inside FCP 7… And I do remember having seen that version thing, I’m gonna change it and do some tests…

Thanks!

https://vimeo.com/pablovi/videos

[Alex Gat]

Hey there,

So me too I have the same problem of dark clip in Finalcut.
I have been working on a project since decembre, and now that I am coloring, I go back and forth from Color to Finalcut, and viceversa.

For some reasons yesterday, when I switched back my color project to finalcut, all the clips were dark and oversatured. Ok you now know the symptoms. But :

This has nothing to do with color calibration since on the same display I have the image of Color and the viewer of Finalcut and only the one from Finalcut is dark. So this has to have something to do with finalcut pro only.

I did not try or mess with the display preference since both my display are well calibrated with X-rite.
I did try to go in the preferences of Final cut but nothing changed.
So I don’t know what to do, I am in the middle of a project so I have to admit I am a bit scared.

Alex