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Inconsistencies in monitoring footage on Final Cut
Hello,
I have noticed that there are inconsistencies in the way footage looks when monitoring on Final Cut Pro and other places. For example, if I am looking at a clip on the viewer in Final Cut Pro, the footage will look brighter when I export it to an .mov file and view it in quicktime; even if I haven’t color corrected it. There’s also a big difference from what I see in Final Cut Pro and what I see in Color.
Has anyone else experienced this and is there a solution to make all views consistent?
José
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4 Replies
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First off, for compatible viewing you should be using an external monitor driven by some flavor of I/O device: Kona, Blackmagic, Matrox, etc. Otherwise you’ll never know what you’re really seeing. As for the Viewer/QT shift make sure you have “Enable Final Cut Studio color compatibility” checked in the QT Player prefs.
John
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I agree with you about using an external monitor, but I am subject to the limitations of my employer. Do you have any idea why Color and Final Cut might not be consistent? I will do some correction in Color, send it back to Final Cut and it will look totally different. The difference seems to be predominantly in the brightness of the images.
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The Canvas in FCP and the clip viewer in Color are not the way to critically judge the quality of your footage. The Clip Viewer in COLOR is REALLY bad. Just meant for reference.
What John said is right… for consistency you need a capture card and external professional monitoring. Or a DARN good HDTV.
Shane
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[Jose Moris] “but I am subject to the limitations of my employer.”
Then tell the employer the limitations of FCP. If they want things done right, they need to get the proper equipment. A Matrox MXO2 mini and good HDTV will run you about $1000-$1500. That will get you consistent monitoring.
[Jose Moris] “r. Do you have any idea why Color and Final Cut might not be consistent?”
They aren’t designed to be used in the manner you want to use them. Judging video color on a COMPUTER DISPLAY is the wrong way to do things anyway, but the Canvas and Clip Viewer aren’t designed to give you full quality. They are only to show you what you are doing.
Shane
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