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FCP contrast and color way off after Snow Leopard install
Hello,
When I installed Snow Leopard the color and especially the contrast within Final Cut have been drastically inaccurate. It’s not my monitor because I tested the source footage using Quicktime and it looks fine.
I am using a MacBook Pro 2.16 GHz Intel Core Duo with 2 GB 667 MHz DDR2 SDRAM.
Thank you.
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12 Replies
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[Adam Querns] “When I installed Snow Leopard the color and especially the contrast within Final Cut have been drastically inaccurate”
Its not inaccurate at all Snow Leopard displays images differently, so what you are seeing is probably perfectly normal.
https://www.apple.com/macosx/refinements/enhancements-refinements.html
It specifically sayas that gamma in 10.6 has changed.
There are no “technical solutions” to your “artistic problems”.
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Interesting. Why do you suppose that the video image looks different when playing it in Preview or Quicktime?
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[Adam Querns] “Why do you suppose that the video image looks different when playing it in Preview or Quicktime?”
Because quicktime always does that.
There are no “technical solutions” to your “artistic problems”.
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So you’re saying Quicktime is the problem and not Final Cut? When I play it back in QT or Preview it looks accurate, the way it looked at the time of shooting.
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[Adam Querns] “So you’re saying Quicktime is the problem and not Final Cut?”
No im just saying they display things differently.
The ONLY way to properly judge accurate color is NOT on a computer monitor. You need a calibrated broadcast monitor connected to a AJA or Black Magic card.
There are no “technical solutions” to your “artistic problems”.
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I’m sorry but isn’t FCP and Quicktime one and the same? Quicktime runs the video we’re seeing through FCP correct? To me there shouldn’t be any difference between the two.
Just to reiterate if anyone else is reading this, when I play video in Final Cut the color and contrast are inaccurate. When I close or hide Final Cut and play the same source video though Quicktime or Preview they look fine.
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[Adam Querns] “I’m sorry but isn’t FCP and Quicktime one and the same?”
No they are not. The “QuickTime Player” & “Final Cut Pro” both use the core QuickTime components in the OS but each are separate applications that will show video slightly different.
There are no “technical solutions” to your “artistic problems”.
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It has to be said, all be it as a novice and without getting too deep into the whys and wherefores, that it is quite disappointing and baffling as to why one clip viewed in QT and FCP – both made by the same people Apple – should look so different, especially when the look is such an important part of the process.
My 10 cents worth
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I agree. And I am absolutely sure that the image in Final Cut is bogus. I realize that you have to monitor the image externally (which I’m doing) but there should be some resemblance. I’d like to know more about this, something a little more substantial than “that’s just the way it is”. This has never been the case before I installed that Snow Leopard! Here is an example:
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[Joe Orange] “especially when the look is such an important part of the process”
Look is important yes but the ways computers display images is VARY different then they way a image is broadcast. So if you want accurate depiction of color you are ONLY going to get that by having the computer hooked up to a properly calibrated broadcast monotor via something like a aja or black magic card.
There are no “technical solutions” to your “artistic problems”.
Don’t let technology get in the way of your creativity!
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