[Evan Blackford]

Cool, thanks again for your reply, Shane. CRX are corrections.

What you say makes good sense. I have thus far avoided any major changes to my workflow for a while, but the good times had to come to an end eventually, I suppose. In the meantime, I’ll just trial and error it with some rough “make it a bit darker” adjustments, till I can get it close to OK. And longer term, the solutions you laid out seem like a great place to start my quest.

All the best,
EB

[Evan Blackford]

Thanks Shane. Your #49 is a pretty nice stock answer, and certainly a quick one! But I still have a problem: it doesn’t matter that much how much it looks on my system. I only opened it in QT to see how it would (approximately) look to my client. If I set my local QT to match FCP’s color, that won’t change the file, right? Just the way the file looks to me on playback?

What I want is for my color CRX in FCP to reasonably match what most clients will see when I output. I know there is a lot LOT of variability in playback scenarios. But my expectation would be that when I see something in the Canvas, I’m doing my color CRX there to get pretty close to the average of what most people will see. At least when I select “Use Current Settings” on my output and I’m not doing any conversion at all. But these are TOTALLY different. Like not even in the same ballpark. More different than what I’m used to.

Any other ideas? Thanks again for your quick reply.

-Evan