[Arthur Dobbe]

When I open an old project, the audio plays ok there. Then when I return to my new project, the audio of clips and sequences plays ok there too.

So opening an old project might be a workaround for the time being.

[Arthur Dobbe]

Yes, about 3 days ago, I got the same kind of problem.
When I start playback of a clip in the viewer, or a sequence in the canvas, one of the stereo audio channels has a delay of about 1 second, so that it echos the other channel.

Indeed sometimes the problem is suddenly gone, but reappears the next day.

When I play the same clip with Quicktime player, both audio channels play back normal.

[Arthur Dobbe]

I, too, have been trying to set my monitors’ gamma to 2.2 lately. I agree that QT player uses ColorSync, no problems there.

However as far as I could find (by trying and searching the manual), there is no way to prevent FCP from “correcting” the gamma. This is what I found in the FCP 6 manual:

‘Whenever you watch your video on a computer display (such as video displayed in the Canvas, the Viewer, or via Digital Cinema Desktop Preview), Final Cut Pro applies gamma correction to the video to more closely approximate the way it would appear on a video monitor.
Note: Gamma correction is not applied to external video outputs such as DV or third-party interfaces because this correction is inherently applied by external video monitors.‘

For still images and RGB video codecs there is an option to set the source gamma, but (quote) ‘Y