Imported videos are too dark

In system preferences and setting another display color except default.

you could click Calibrate to correct, may read mac help.

Hello!

I have the same problem on my MacBook 13", early 2008. I could buy FCPX in the app-store, but the graphiccard inside the computer isnt OpenCL compatible.

FCPX is running, but in the viewer it looks, that the green channel is missing.

Changeing the color-profile had no effect.

I hope, Apple will correct this.

I tried to buy FCPX for my Mac Pro, early 2008, but it was blocked to buy, because its graphiccard (ATI Radeon 2600) isnt OpenCL compatible. Then i copied the application from my MacBook 13", early 2008 to my Mac Pro and the application is running without any problems. The viewer-problem is only on my MacBook. I have an third computer, an MacBookPro from 2011 and FCPX is also running without problems.

It seems that the viewer-problem is an graphiccard-problem.

Hey, there are a few threads like this. I have the same issue. From what it looks liked, FCPX isn't recognizing the green channel in your video (in your attached screenshot, look at how the green in the background appears grey in the viewer). To double-check, select your clip in the timeline, then view the vectorscope. If i'm correct, you'll see that there's no green color data that is being recognised.

I don't know if this is a graphics card issue, or something that has to be patched, as the green does come up in the timeline.

The rest of the image appears darker, because (and again, this is only my hypothesis) of the range of green color data that isn't being added.

If there is, I haven't found it...

What I did notice is that while the color is screwed up in the viewer, it comes out properly in the output. If you can use another program to color correct (like after effects, for example), then use FCXPro for the editing, you shoul be alright until Apple does something about the issue.

How would calibrating the monitor change the difference in color between 2 different applications? Quicktime X looks fine but in FCPX too dark? As far as I understand it calibration will change the global environment. I'm having a somewhat similar problem: Colors look fine in FCPX timeline as well as exported video file in Quicktime. When I bring the file into Compressor 4 or 3 the file is very dark and over saturated which would indicate a gamma shift. I'm running a quad core macpro with all updates and a dellU2711 calibrated with a Spyder III. I experience the same problem if I export directly to Vimeo - Vimeo Video file too dark and saturated and it does not look like it did on the timeline. Previously I edited using a Black Magic HDMI card and ignored the time line but no longer have that option with FCPX but can't use the program like this. I have the exact same problem with files exported out of Motion 5 - Any ideas??

Starrate, the color issue migrating over to Compressor is news to me, but it makes me think that whatever issue FCPX is having is hard wired into Compressor as well.

If so, hopefully, Apple will fix this in the next patch.

I've had issued exporting directly to vimeo as well, but when I export to a file, and then upload the file, it works fine. It's an extra step, but it should help out.

Thanks to a blog I found today by DUNCAN DAVIDSON

FINAL CUT PRO X AND ICC V4 PROFILES

http://duncandavidson.com/blog/2011/06/fcpx_colormunki

The problem is with ICC v4 profiles. I use ColorEyes Display Pro to calibrate my old Cinema Display monitor which by default outputs an ICC v4 profile. If I switch to the default Cinema Display profile which happens to be a v2.1.0 specification, it brightens right up but is way too bluish. I made another profile with v2 specs and the video looks fine.