I guess at this point I just want to know the best settings for compressing with the least amount of quality loss to drastically lower the file size. As mentioned before my 4 hour video is a whopping 72 GB. Its not as washed out but there is a clear significance in the quality. Here is the compressed H264 and original on the iphone.
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Can you copy both original and exported clips to another Mac, another Windows machine, an iPhone or upload them to Youtube and check the color during streaming playback on various devices? This might give some ideas about the problem. In cases like this you often cannot trust what you're seeing on a single machine. Starting with FCPX 10.4.7 there are also major performance improvements due to Metal.
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It makes sense to upgrade to the latest possible version of FCPX. While there is not one specifically described as "fixes washed out export", the fix list terminology is often broad and not comprehensive. How does the original clip look if you just press the space bar in Finder (Quick Look)?Īlso there have been numerous color-related changes and fixes in FCPX since 10.4. Your last screen cap shows you are using an older version of Quicktime Player, not version 10. I tried exported to verify it was not just the previewer and yes, still washed out. The clip is already washed out in the FCP previewer even before export versus Quicktime Player even when I select Color Rec709 / Rec601 (Both washed out) in Color Space Override. Can I just sent you the video file? It's small. You can load multiple files or drag/drop additional files on the Invisor window to compare the metadata. This tool also enables side-by-side spreadsheet-style comparison between multiple files and is integrated into the Finder via right-click>Services>Analyze with Invisor.
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Ideally we'd like to see the full output of a tool like Invisor for the original clip. If you simply trim it using Quicktime Player does that small result clip show washed out color? /guide/quicktime-player.lip-qtpf2115f6fd/mac I don't know how it was originally captured but many of those tools produce malformed metadata that causes problems downstream. At a minimum we need to see the color space identifier of the original clip as viewed in the FCPX inspector under the "i" tab. It might be a color space mis-identification caused by how it was originally ripped. Quicktime Player will not show this, you have to look in the FCPX inspector under the "i" tab for that clip. REC 601 and exported as REC 709, maybe that would look different. However if the captured VHS file has a different color space, e.g. If all were played by Quicktime from the local input and output files, in general I'd expect the color to be the same. When you say the FCPX export looks "washed out" - when played by what, and relative to what? If by chance you played one with VLC and one with Quicktime, those can have different gamma settings. The shortcut key in Quicktime Player is CMD+I. guide/quicktime-player.lip-qtpf2115f6fd/macĪs Tom suggested, we need to know the parameters of the input file. If your only purpose in using FCPX is to trim the big clip you might be able to use Quicktime instead for this. This does not re-encode, so is very fast. When troubleshooting, to avoid dealing with such a huge file you can trim this in Quicktime Player. it's a raw vid file so 4 hours is 72 GB.I exported to h264 and the video's colors are washed out.