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Very very dark video in FCP X viewer.

Sort of getting to like FCP X.

I am getting very very dark video in my viewer. The clips look fine in the clip viewer (sorry if thats the wrong name but I mean the central window) but as soon as I select a clip and scrub through it the clip itself goes very dark and the clip playing in the viewer (the large window on the right) is very very dark, I would say maybe three stops darker than it should be. I have output a couple of clips as a QT mov file and they play just fine in QT it's just that they are showing up very dark, to dark to edit in FCP X.

Any ideas?

thanks.

Final Cut Pro X-OTHER, Mac OS X (10.6.7)

Posted on Jun 22, 2011 3:42 PM

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ColinResponse

Level 1

4 points

Posted on Jul 3, 2017 8:37 AM

I've drafted up a solution, (mostly incase I forgot how to fix it myself LOL) however,

Please save this photo and share it as much as possible because it's taken me close to 3 years to discover what was going on. And I would like to resolve this for as many people as possible!

Photo is Attached below but Here's a Link too: Dropbox - FIXING DARK MONITOR DISPLAY (Final Cut 7).pdf

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Jul 3, 2017 11:25 AM in response to Tom Wolsky

Gladly I'm just not on it could you link me to it please? Feel also free to repost it yourself as well! The more people know the merrier!!!

Very very dark video in FCP X viewer.