[Dantly Wyatt]

“I don’t think it is ProRes. In fact I KNOW it isn’t. I did the same thing with an uncompressed HD file – sure enough the gamma is different between the FCP and the QT. ”

I just did a little bit of research & testing because I was having the same issue of quicktime & my FCP window having different appearances in perceived brightness/gamma. The culprit is (at least on my system) the color profile in the display settings in system preferences. I have a Macbook Pro 1.83 hooked to a 32″ vizio LCD. I noticed that when I changed the color profile to SMPTE-C, I got accurate perceived brightness/gamma between my quicktime window & FCP viewer window. ***while viewing through my 32″ vizio***, going through the color profile choices, I notice that they did NOT change the appearance of the quicktime window, but did change the appearance of my FCP viewer window. I found this to be odd but anyways…. I just found the color profile that made my FCP viewer & Quicktime window match in perceived brightness/gamma which happened to be SMPTE-C. (side effect note) My laptop & monitor now have two different color profiles but I don’t mind too much because I’m mirroring & I use the vizio 95% of the time.

Dantly Wyatt
Final Cut Pro 6.0.6
Macbook pro 1.83