Q: Video much too dark in FCP compared to iMovie
NB I mistakenly asked this question in the Final Cut Pro X forum and should really have posted it here
Bit of a newcomer to this but as I have Final Cut Pro 7 thought I'd use it rather than iMovie which seems a bit primitive.
Shot a video of someone in the studio yesterday on a Nikon DSLR at 1280x720 25fps
Then ran it through Compressor to transcode it to Apple Pro Res for editing.
All ok so far
Viewed the footage in iMovie and it looks fine but what a horror in FCP7 !!!
It is so dark
So what's wrong ?
Have seen an earlier discussion which seemed to think the monitor calibration is off but how can that be ?
iMovie displays the footage fine but FCP doesn't.
Any thoughts guys ?
See the attached screen grab
As you can see: FCP Viewer on top and iMovie below
The latest reply I have received was the following from Meg the Dog and it certainly helps but is not a complete solution so I'd appreciate any further views:
In FCP-7 go to the menu Final Cut Pro > System Settings.
When the System Settings Pane opens, click on the Playback Tab.
Set Gamma Correction to Approximate:
Posted on Feb 4, 2014 3:17 PM


