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Viewer and Canvas extremely dark
I am a long time user of FCP, and am having a strange issue that seemed to come out of nowhere. Today when I loaded a project I had been working on, I noticed that the footage looked incredibly dark. By dark I mean maybe 30%-40% of the video levels they should be. Thinking I must have applied some kind of filter by accident, I checked how it looked outputting through our Kona LHe, and found no issue. The footage looked completely normal. I also looked at the built-in scopes, and the seemed to show normal video levels. I next imported some other footage from a different project and found the same problem.
My next step was to check the same footage outside of FCP, in case it was a monitor issue. Using the quickview feature of Snow Leopard, the footage looked completely normal. I tried trashing the preferences and starting a new project, but found the same problem. The only place in FCP I have found so far that renders my footage normally is the Quick View feature in FCP (not the OS one).
I am scratching my head here. Has anybody else seen this issue or could possibly shed some light on what is the deal? Again, this issue has only shown up today; I have been using FCP for years and never seen this before. I’m running the latest version of FCP and Snow Leopard, and have all the latest updates. I’m using 2×2.26 quad core (8 core total) Intel Xeon processor Mac Pro with 12 GB of 1066 MHz DDR3 RAM. Thanks!
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Nevermind…I figured it out 🙂 The latest update must have messed with my color profile gamma settings. After re-calibrating the monitor, FCP adjusted to match. Cheers!
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Got the same thing going on!
Started yesterday… No Idea what to do.. -
Try re-calibrating your screen using the Mac OS calibration tool. That did it for me.
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