Color Profile Issues with FCP X

[tirapell]

Is anyone having the same problem? I'm using Color Eyes Display Pro to calibrate and create color profiles.

I am getting very very dark video in my viewer. The clips look fine in the clip viewer 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 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 movie file and they play just fine in QT so I know they are correct. It's just that they are showing up very dark, too dark to edit in FCP X.


I suspect the problem may not lie with the type of profile, LUT based or matrix based, 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. 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.

So far, neither LUT based or matrix based profiles have worked in either ICC v2 or ICC v4. However, if I use any of the installed Apple profiles (the defaults) the problem is solved. Hopefully either Color Eyes Display Pro or Apple remedies the issue soon.

Any ideas or others with the same issue?

[BenB]

Calibrating a display like that is for print, not for video, you're not going to get it to work for video accuracy. A computer display will never be accurate enough for color/quality work. Nothing but a professional monitor, such as Flanders Scientific, will do the job. All video apps handle gamma curves differently, it's not going to do what you think it will. That Spider will calibrate so what comes out on a paper printers looks accurate with the page layout app you're using.

[tirapell]

Calibrating a display like that is for print, not for video, you're not going to get it to work for video accuracy. A computer display will never be accurate enough for color/quality work. Nothing but a professional monitor, such as Flanders Scientific, will do the job. All video apps handle gamma curves differently, it's not going to do what you think it will. That Spider will calibrate so what comes out on a paper printers looks accurate with the page layout app you're using.

Gotcha. Thanks for the clarification. I guess I'll just have to wait for FCP X to support the Matrox MXO2 (or the like). I'll never need the most stringent professional standards. Just trying to get as close as possible within reason on a budget.