Very very dark video in FCP X viewer.

Can Colormunki create a matrix profile?

Simple experiment- I turned off my colormunki profile and went back to the Apple profile that came with the new iMac (3 weeks old). Darkness was gone and the clips looked much better on the 2560 x 1440 monitor.

Now that I am not using colormunki profile when using FCPX, how do I know that various vids I output are going to be color accurate with other devices?

I think, it is a bug an Apple will fix it. In the meantime you must use the Apple profile.

Chordmasta,

I definitely think you're correct about the green chanel. Videos that were having no issues color wise before suddenly become odd when I open them in FCPX. But the blues are almost the same.

My display is completely standard; I've never touched its settings.

I suspect the problem may not lie with the type of profile, lut or matrix, but rather with the version of the CMM spec used to create the profile.

I normally calibrate my monitor(s) using Spyder3Elite hardware and ColorEyes Display Pro and I have the dark color problem with the CEDP profile but not the Apple provided profile--of course many other color problems cropped up using the generic Apple iMac profile.

In comparing the Apple provided profile with the one I created using CEDP I found that Apple used version 2.1 and CEDP used version 2.0 of the CMM specification. I then calibrated my iMac using Spyder3Elite Version 4.0.2 from datacolor. This software created a profile using CMM Version 2.4 and it works perfectly in FCPX.

Guess that means ColorEyesDisplay Pro, a $175 package, is obsolete.

I'm having this issue as well, but I think that it's more than just the gamma being too dark.

If you'll all indulge me, see if there are actually colors missing. For example, I shot some footage outside yesterday, and it seems like in my viewer, I'm totally missing my green channel. Grass and leaves all appear grey. Thinking in this regard, it makes sense that your display would seem dark, because there's a whole range of color information that isn't being added to each frame.

To test, I opened the vectorscope to see an analysis of the footage, and it wasn't registering any green at all. I'm not sure if it's disregarding any other colors, but I know that changing the color profile hasn't solved this issue. It's helped a bit to make things easier to see, but the main viewer still hasn't registered the missing colors.

This photo doesn't show the vectorscope, but you should get the idea.

I can only assume that Apple has to patch this, as it seems to be how FCPX interprets data, rather than something that we can change 😟

I think there are two separate issues here -

1) issue with color profiles

2) issue with green channel being removed in the viewer

For people who are experiencing #2, what type of video card do you have? Is it one listed on http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4664 as supported?

I'm having issue #2 (obviuously), and I'm using of of the supported graphics cards, the Intel GMA 950.

Actually, your card (GMA950) is not supported by Final Cut X.

"The following graphics cards are not OpenCL compatible and do not meet the OpenCL compatible graphics card system requirement for Final Cut Pro X, Motion 5 and Compressor 4."

You know what? You're absolutely right. I missread that. Guess I'm SOL.

Do you think there's any way to get around the graphics card issue?

I'd really love to have it on my Macbook... everything else works flawlessly except for greens in the video

I hope so as well. It could stand to be faster, but otherwise, it works as advertised (for the most part).

I wonder though if those having the green channel problem are limited to those win incompatible graphics cards. If not, then maybe an eventual update may fix problems for all of us.

I am having issue #2 as well and I have an unsupported graphics card as well.

I am praying some others have the same issue with supported cards so they fix the issue. Color correction with out my green channel displaying is simply impossible. This really is a shame because FCP X just became completely worthless to me and in a matter of seconds.

Intel GMA X3100:

Chipset Model: GMA X3100

Type: GPU

Bus: Built-In

VRAM (Total): 144 MB

Vendor: Intel (0x8086)

Tech specs say 256MB of VRAM minimum requirements.