Gamma shift with P2 to FCP vs. P2 to Avid Express Pro

...this still makes no sense. Monitors can be adjusted, even computer monitors have brightness and contrast settings and most users calibrate the monitors to the best degree possible.

Why would FCP presume to know what my monitor display looks like compared to yours. You are using CRT, I am using LCD - do they both display the same bright image?

Someone is feeding us BS if they expect us to believe that adjusting the footage we carefully lit and exposed needs to be done because of the monitors. If my monitor is too bright I turn it down, I don't go in and put a levels filter on all my footage to lower the gamma.
 
There is nothing wrong with your footage. This is proven when taking the footage out of FCP and into AVID and the footage was "as expected." as posted by Jim2000. What needs to happen instead is an adjustment of your monitors color profile that FCP seems to load or whatever gamma correction it thinks it needs to apply.

According to Zak Forsman: "FINAL CUT PRO MENU > SYSTEM SETTINGS > PLAYBACK TAB > GAMMA CONTROL > ACCURATE/APPROX" is where the change may need to be made.
Results may vary.
 
Switching to "approximate" gets you closer, but doesn't fix the problem. An exact reverse-engineered recalibration of the monitor's gamma setting is what would be needed. That setting would ONLY apply to work done in FCP's various editing windows however - not the P2 import window or in the QT viewer app. You'd be basically undoing FCP's effort to outsmart you in that regard.

IMHO, this "feature" really should be an FCP preferences item, so users could simply switch it off. Maybe we should start making some noise over at Apple's FCP forums about it. They might notice.
 
Its not a monitor calibration question. With the P2 capture window and the canvas window open on the same screen the pictures look completely different.
 
Boy, I can concur with what people are discussing in this thread. I am on a shoot at the moment with two HVX200s matched with master ped set at -5. It looks great on the Avid, crushed unacceptably on FCP. We've opted to shoot at -1 and color correct where needed.
 
Just to bump this thread up again:
has there been a true solution for the FCP gamma displaying so far?
I never noticed the darkening much, but now I´m editing a nighttime event with pools of light and a lot of shadows, everything looks fine when played via component from the HVX to a Sony BVM - but the FCP viewer just looks underexposed...
 
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