[Eugene Huo]

Thanks Victor,

I went and looked at the suggestions, and I tried switching monitor colors from millions to thousands and back, and nothing changed. Then I tried changing screen resolutions, back and forth, still no change.

Then I tried connecting my DVI adapter (no monitor attached, mind you) to the side, triggering a external monitor recognition, and then removed it, while FCP was running. No change.

THEN, as I went to quit and it asked me if I wanted to save the project, the colors went back to normal!!! I cancelled the quit and yes, the colors were all normal again.

Now as I launch FCP again, it’s still normal.

I don’t know what did it, but it’s very strange. At least for now, problem solved.

[Eugene Huo]

I am also experiencing this same issue, and it’s very frustrating.

I have video that appears solarized in the viewer and in the canvas, but when opened in Quicktime it appears normal. The file format is a Photo-JPEG mov file, generated from FCP 7 on my desktop Mac, for use as an offline proxy edit on my MacBook Pro.

Needless to say there’s not much editing going on with the video looking like this…

https://eugenehuo.posterous.com/14232191

And here is the same file on the same computer, open in Quicktime looking normal:

https://eugenehuo.posterous.com/14232240

I’m running 10.5.8 Leopard, with the latest software updates. It’s a new install of FCP Studio, prefs trashed, etc.