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

[Durango Torres]

I had this same problem. Suddenly the color in my fcp sequence became orange and darker. The original files outside of fcp look normal. Also, when I had two video channels going, and adjusted the color, the orange and darkness went away, along with the render. When I rendered again the orange and darkness came back. I took the entire sequence and copied it into another project sequence. This seemed to fix the problem. When I went back to the original sequence the color issue was fixed also. Really weird stuff, but I fixed the problem.

[Jay Zellman]

I solved the problem!! In System Preferences, goto Displays. Under color, choose iMac. Mine was set to HD709-A. Go back to FCP and click on a couple of clips and it should look fine.

Let me know how it goes.

[Juan Garcia]

I use an Imac and a MacBookPro I bought the color Munki display and installed it in both computers now Final cut pro 7 and adobe Photoshop CC don’t give me true colors. I can say I detected the problem does anyone have the solution?

JC GG

[Zachary Van heel]

I have been trying to figure this problem out for the past 6 months and nothing ever really helped.

I finally figured it out and had to make an account to share what i did.

In fcp7 – go into system settings – playback controls – change gamma corrections from accurate to approximate.

This at least worked for me and brought the gamma to the correct level.

I hope this helps

[Jon Cermin]

Matt, you ROCK!

Thanks for the easy fix. I just purchased a new very expensive monitor thinking that would be the fix, only to be disappointed. Your fix was simple and brilliant!

Thanks again!

Jon
https://www.ccpi.tv

[Reed Brown]

Wow… not that anyone is still looking at this thread (well, YOU are…), but I’ve been using FCP 7.0.3 on a 2013 MacPro 3.5 GHz 6-Core on OS 10.10.5 with an AMD FirePro D500 and two wide screen monitors AND, drum-role please, had the same issue with the very dark source/record images but after changing System Settings Gamma Correction to Approximate, all screens now look perfect! And shifting brightness going from pause to play as sometimes happened as stopped as well. THANKS for the easy fix!

Also running PPCC on the system and since several Adobe updates a couple years back, no longer have freezes or crashes I had back in 2013. Smooth sailing for at least two and half years. All at peace in the world of non-linear editing. Yeah!