FCP & Pro Apps Video All Dark

[Nathaniel Cooper]

Apple changed the IRE settings in 10.6, but there shouldn’t be a change from 10.6.4 to 10.6.6. The changes they did to the IRE settings can make a file look ‘darker’ on the screen, however it’s actually more acturate to the video. But, this should have been updated when you moved to any version of 10.6 and should affect non pro apps and pro apps just the same.

Is the video outputting okay after you do your work in FCP? Do you have a reference monitor output? If so is it darker there too?

You may want to try trashing your FCP prefs and rebooting, if you haven’t already.

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[Chris Armstrong]

It only seems to be an issue with the Apple FCS apps. Nuke and other non-FCS apps show the files fine. (Qucktime works fine) And if I run the video out to a broadcast monitor it looks fine.

It has something to do with the way the FCS apps are showing files on the LCD’s. It’s as if it is showing it with a crazy dark gamma.

I’ve tried deleting all the preferences and reseting settings, but that didn’t help. Next step is to completely remove FCS and reinstall and see if that makes a difference.

[Erik Sulcs]

Hi,

Did you ever resolve this issue? My FCP 7.0.3
Has been doing the same thing. I see the video just fine with perfect Iris levels in my Panasonic AG-HPX170. As soon as the video is in FCP it is really dark. It even exports looking way too dark…

I also recently updated to 10.6.6 What if anything did you do to resolve the issue?

Thanks…

[Chris Armstrong]

Yes I resolve it.

Turns out my “Display Profile” had gotten changed. Once I returned it to a normal profile everything looked fine after that.

[Erik Sulcs]

Chris,

Sorry I’m a bit of a newbie here, but where exactly is the “Display Profile” you mention?
Is it something in FCP or in the OS? I did a search in both and nothing matched…

Thanks,

Erik

[Chris Armstrong]

Click on OS X’s “System Preferences”, then click “Display” in the hardware category. Then click on the “color” tab.

[Erik Sulcs]

Thanks for the info…

[Mitch Netzer]

Perfect! My display preferences randomly changed themselves from 60hrz NTSC to 50hrz PAL and changed color driver types. Super weird. Changed them back and all is fine now. Didn’t even have to restart final cut or my mac!

[Eric Dubé]

Hi i have the same problem, i did what you said and click on color tab and try all the menu could not get rid of the darkness.

Hepl

Eric

[Ivo Machado]

I’ve been having this problem for along time. I think I just figured out.

Go to the Sequence Settings (Cmd + 0) on Compressor switch to Apple Pro Res 422.

It works for me 🙂