[David Piggott]

Hey Mark
Thanks for replying.
The strangest thing has just happen. After powering down my drive and Mac Book for a few hours and opening up the project, all is well.
I had already checked your suggestions Mark, but still didn’t work. In fact, it worked OK when switched to Approximate.
How weird!! I have noticed that several others have been suffering the same frustrating problem, but I wonder whether theirs was permanent.
I wonder if anyone can figure out why that happened?
Thanks again Mark for your help.

[David Piggott]

Sorry like I said I am quite a tech novice.
It doesn’t seem to matter what I import, from where, what codec, etc… The footage appears a lot darker when viewed through FCP (on the source and canvas). The only exception is when I view on QuickView, then it looks normal.
When connected to an external monitor it still looks dark.
When I export the edited sequence and view on Quicktime. It looks normal.
My waveform levels look fine.
On this current project I am importing Mov. files. DVCPPRO50
I think it is some kind of monitoring setting I have somehow altered. Any suggestions welcome.