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Such a weird glitch, but BIG impact on editing ☹ Any insight??
I recently tried updating to Mojave, but got stuck for hours and couldn’t get out of it, even after restarting. Last resort had to restore a time machine backup from the previous day.
Everything looked fine, but the first thing I opened was FCPX and I noticed something weird. In the viewfinder and while scrubbing, all my footage looked dark– blacks crushed, highlights blown out. But if I just looked at the rows of files without scrubbing, they looked fine.
This is NOT what the original file looks like, and when I export from FCPX, it looks normal too. But all my libraries and projects look like this now, which is making color correcting impossible since I don’t know what it actually looks like until I export it.
I did some googling and even came across some old old threads on this forum, found that some people on FCP 7 had this issue but no real solutions posted. There were a few saying fixing the gamma correction in the playback settings worked, but I’m not seeing that option in FCPX playback settings.
Also, I completely deleted & reinstalled just in case it was a time machine issue– same issue happening.
Any insight would be greatly appreciated! Nothing else on my screen or other apps are discolored, so I don’t think it’s my actual iMac display settings (tried that anyway).
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This maybe way off, but what is the setting under the View dropdown at the top right? Better performance or better quality?
Scott Witthaus
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I had it on better performance, but I’ve toggled that setting already and nothing changed ☹
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I wonder if FCPX has added a LUT to your footage?
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I found that setting when I was poking around, and nope– it’s set to None. And ADDING any of the LUT options makes it worse.
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Did you trash prefs when you reinstalled?
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I trashed the Final Cut Pro folder in the Library, the “com.apple.FinalCut” folder in the Caches folder, and the following files from Preferences:
com.apple.FinalCut.LSSharedFileList.plist
com.apple.FinalCut.plist
com.apple.FinalCut.UserDestinations.plist
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Have you tried a fresh install?
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Yep! as said in orig post, I tried a fresh reinstall and that didn’t fix the problem :/ reinstalled from mac app store
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Shot in the dark but how about changing your displays color profile?
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last line of original post– tried that, didn’t work. nothing else on my screen is discolored. and I can see the true color in the timeline.
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