[Jeremy Simms]

Um…err… no… didn’t know you couldn’t colour correct on an LCD and I’m afraid I haven’t the $$ for and fancy monitor : (

I guess I mightn be able to do a proper color correction, but surely you can get a (very) rough idea of how the picture should look – contrast, brightness, etc – which at the moment I can’t because the picture just looks so crappy. Again, it’s just in FCP that the images look like the gamma (or something like gamma) is incorrect. Instinct tells me that it’s therefore something to do with FCP settings rather than the monitor, although happy have my instinct proved wrong… no?

[Jeremy Simms]

Thanks Jeff – I’m using OSX 10.6.8 and FCP 7.0.3 I’ve tried calibrating my external monitor with the internal mac calibrating facility in Systems Preferences.

The issue is pretty important to me because I won’t be able to do any color correction, so the shoot, edit, output unfortunately is not satisfactory.

hmmmm

[Jeremy Simms]

Grrr, I’m afraid I’m still stuck – if I open the clips up in QT, they look fine. I’ve tried exporting as well – they look fine BUT the clips when viewed in FCP7 still look weird.

Help!

Anyone.

[Jeremy Simms]

Thanks Jeff – yes, when I compress to quicktime, and play the quicktime back on the same computer, monitor, it looks ok but in FCP it still looks crappy.

I’ll play around with the colorsync and see if that makes a difference, but I would have thought that would affect the overall look of video in general in all programs and formats, not just how it looks in FCP?

[Jeremy Simms]

Further to the above and sorry for all the details but I thought it helps tell the complete story – I’m running off an 15″ MBP i7 8GB RAM with external FW800 drive, using an external monitor, although when I disconnect the external monitor, the images in FCP on my laptop screen still looks as bad. All other video whether I watch on You Tube, through the internal DVD player on in Quicktime looks fine.

Tx