FCPX Timeline Footage Dark & Saturated in Viewer
First off, I am well aware of every single post in the following thread, which are of no help whatsoever:
Very very dark video in FCP X viewer. - Apple Community
PROBLEM: I restored a MacOS High Sierra drive backup from TimeMachine to an external 2TB SSD then booted my mid-2015 5K 27" iMac from it, but I sadly discovered that although footage thumbnails in the left sidebar look fine and while hovering over those thumbnails displays great looking video in the viewer too, those same clips on the timeline look dark and saturated in the Viewer.
FAILED Things I've tried:
- Press Opt & Cmd while launching FCPX to create new preference files.
- Start afresh with a new "standard" library, new event, reimport footage.
- Confirmed there are no Effects whatsoever causing this.
What Sort-of Works:
System Preferences > Displays > Color > SMPTE RP 431-2-2007 DCI (P3)
But that isn't the profile I normally use because it makes everything a bit too bright for my taste. Interestingly, the calibrated profile (calibrated with Apple's software calibrator, not any third party device) I normally use doesn't work to fix the FCPX viewer darkness and over-saturation problem. In fact, most of the profiles which looked rather decent before (when I had High Sierra on my internal SSD) now display FCPX timeline footage too dark and too saturated in the Viewer.
I launched ColorSync Utility and did a Verify & Repair on my profiles, but that didn't resolve anything, even though it made some fixes.
Again, only SMPTE RP 431-2-2007 DCI (P3) eliminates the darkness and over saturation in the viewer (when viewing timeline footage). But it is not an ideal solution because, like I said, it makes everything a tad big too bright, almost like it has a brighter gamma. I should be able to use the profiles I always used, but for some reason they appear broken, and ColorSync Utility's Repair feature doesn't resolve the issue.
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.
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