Re: Viewing Problems (probably not related to FCP)

David,

At the top of both windows are three drop-down menus. Click on the one on the right, The top section wants to be set to 'image'. The second section down uncheck everything. The third section down select RGB.

--ken

Other than FCP, does your monitor look normal when running email or Safari or other apps?

What codec and format video are you working with and what are your Sequence settings?

--ken

All other applications look fine.

But as I mentioned at the beginning, the video screens of QT and MPEG Streamclip look also quite dark, but less than the ones in FCP.
Can it be a video card issue?

I'm not running e-mails on the Mac....

I'm working with regular DV codec, SD at 720x480, like I do most of the time with no problems.

I may opt to move to my older computer running FCP 3.04, but this will not solve the problem with this one.

I have gone through the sequence settings from top to bottom trying to figure out if anything is wrong there,
to no avail.

David.

David,

If you play a video clip from the web inside Safari, does the clip play properly?

--ken

Ken,

I'm sorry, but my Mac is not connected to the internet.
I'm using my Windows PC for that.

David.

If you open the video in Quicktime player, do they play properly? This is the most strange FCP problem I've ever heard of.

Why did my response here gave me a "SPAM" warning?

David.

Hi David, not sure why go got that message. Every once in awhile I get it too.

--ken