[Jen Casson]

You can do it two ways.

At a user preference level – go to user preferences and under the editing tab, there’s an option to set the gamma of RGB Video / Stills. This will be set for all imports of such files (that use RGB color space).

If you want to do it on a per clip level – then import the clip, open the item properties (cmd+9) and in the window, option+click (right click) on gamma and you can change the setting (if the clip is of the proper format – i.e. a clip w/ pro-res 422 compression will not have this option available since it’s not an RGB codec).

[Jen Casson]

Not sure if this was already mentioned or if this issue has been resolved. But if you import the a clip from AE that uses the animation codec (or another codec that uses the RGB color space), then select your item properties (cmd+9), change the gamma to 2.2 (right click / option click to bring up menu).

That seems to have sorted the gamma issue for me thus far.

You can also change the user settings to import RGB video / stills to use a specific gamma setting instead of whatever the source uses.

[Jen Casson]

My levels in FCP peak at -10db. So in the conversion to analog – shouldn’t this level be safe and not peak over 0 in analog world?