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Sorry, but you’ll NEED to aquire a hand-held BLUE FILTER (such as a Rosco Gel #80 Primary [CTB] Blue) to help you adjust the monitor properly.

For accuracy, you CAN’T do any INTERNAL MIX (inside the “source”, in this case, FCP) because you are needing to adjust the MONITOR’s controls INDEPENDENT of the source.

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Well, I have actually had pretty good luck making overexposed DV footage look much more “normal”.

(In analog, if you overexposed the shot, it was done-for.)

But with digital footage, I’ve actually found I can use the “3-Way Color Corrector” filter and just turn down the WHITE and MID level-sliders a bit and I can get the rolled-over whites to tame down substantially.
(Yes, there is even “detail” info in those rolled-over whites.)

So, by doing a combination of this 3WCC filter and maybe a bit of Richard’s “sky-replacement”, you can fix this footage.

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How was the file converted to 48 kHz?
Clicks and pops are associated with mis-matched audio files (like mp3s).

Do you have the following settings:

Final Cut Pro (menu) > User Preferences… > General >
Real-time Audio Mixing: (I always set to 12 tracks or more, every audio “effect” is counted as a “track” as well)
Audio Playback Quality: High

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You first need to convert the CD to a 48 kHz file for use in FCP (If you did that, great. You didn’t say.)

CDs are usually recorded very near the upper limits of “full” level.

I always need to drop the level of an imported CD cut by about 9 to 14dB for it to come close to matching the “normal” record level of a captured DV tape, MUCH less if its to play UNDER other audio tracks (say, as much as -24 dB).

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Many small camcorders do not have a record button (for VCR mode) on the camcorder itself, but DO offer that feature on an optional remote control.

I have never once heard of the odd behavior of FCP writing files to HD instead of the camcorder during PtV.

Did you Trash the FCP Preferences?

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Fast solution:

Do not use “Print to Video” (PtV).

Just hit record on your camcorder and PLAY the timeline.
As long as you have rendered everything at full quality and performed a Mixdown on your audio (see below) the quality will be identical to PtV.

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Audio Mixdown:

There is a function in FCP that is often overlooked… and it can help with many audio and video “skipping”, “sticking” and “missing” problems.

You should “Mixdown” the Audio for playback before you dub out of FCP, or during the edit, if you have audio/video stuttering, drop-outs or freezes.

NOTE: Mixdown has even been demonstrated to help with slipping, skipping problems (or “missing” audio clips) for files being EXPORTED as QT (or similar) files out of FCP.

First, SELECT ALL of your audio tracks (highlight them) on the timeline, then:

Sequence Menu > Render Only > Mixdown.

You should see a dialog box telling you its rendering.

It might seem to make little sense that “Mixing down” even simple audio tracks will “fix” complex video “freezes” or random audio dropouts to tape or export, but it CAN.

NOTE: It does not matter of you only have one audio track, if there are random freezes during output, you should try the Mixdown.

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At this point something sounds “too” strange if it won’t respond to simple procedures.

So we are left with:

1. Operator error: Are you sure you are operating Title 3D correctly? (Never hurts to make SURE).

2. Software corruption: Reinstall FCP and/or the Boris title programs.

3. Hardware issues: Add a second Monitor to the Mac you’re using and see if that clears it up.

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[Tom] “150 and 170 may be nice but can’t stand up to a camera with a real lens”

Why stop there?

I don’t understand why you would bother with video cameras at all.

Just buy/rent a Panavision 35mm film camera and a complete set of lenses and really get high resolution.

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[Wayne K.] “can you please tell me where the ‘force all’ feature is exactly,”

There is not a “feature”.

At least when using CRT monitors, you can just open the Display settings and resize the display to the highest setting.
At that point everything that’s displayed should be available for you to manipulate over to the one monitor.

Then, you can resize the display back to its normal size.

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You should be able to use the “Displays” function in the Mac’s System Preferences to “force” all windows to show up on a single monitor. But if this does not work for you…

You might try Trashing the FCP Preferences.
The Preferences retain your window layout positions.

Caution: If you DO this, ALL of your FCP Preferences (and “Favorites”) on this computer will “go away” and revert to the software’s basic one-monitor settings.

But if you’re in a pinch, this might do the trick.

Click the following link for instructions on how to do this.

https://www.kenstone.net/fcp_homepage/trashing_fcp_prefs.html

NOTE:
If you use the free software, “FCP Rescue”, you can first SAVE your Preference settings.
Quit FCP, then you can use FCP Rescue to Trash the Preferences, but DO NOT “Restore” them.
Just open FCP before you choose to “Restore” and see if the Title window shows up.
Then, after you get the job done, you can use FCP Rescue to “Restore” your former Preferences (The Favorites should return as well.)

Download the “FCP Rescue” Apple Script at

https://fcprescue.andersholck.com/