Gamma: FCPX - QT7 - FCP7
A frame of the same movie shown in Final Cut Pro X, Quicktime 7, and Final Cut Pro 7.
Traditionally, FCP7 would display movies differently than QT7 because it was emulating for TV or something. And then Quicktime would alter the gamma again when we compressed for the web. It was confusing and led to guesses at overcompensation, for example, making the images too dark and colourful, knowing at the next stage the life would be bled from them, rendering them as lifeless the husk of an image, grey and thin like dead skin. The horror. The horror.
So it’s nice FCPX sorts this out.
(Granted, I haven’t tried editing anything for TV with FCPX. I expect it just translates when it encodes a TV-based format like Mpeg IMX.)
Read more from Apple on gamma.
