Enable Final Cut Color Compatibility Further Washes out HDV!

I'm having a hard time with this.
Outputting a reference Quicktime movie (for later use in compressor, non self contained, HDV 1080i60) creates slightly washed out looking footage. Clicking the "enable FCP color compatibility" checkbox further brightens the footage! What's going on?
My monitor is at 1.8 gamma, is that checkbox further brightening my footage by bringing it up from where it's at to 1.8? This is really driving me crazy.

Hi
Please tell more (or I'm not clever enough to get it)
Enable Final Cut Studio color compatibility
In QuickTime Player 7.6 (Mac OS X.4.11)
Under Preferences there are three symbols in my version
General/Full Sceen/Record
And I can't find anything alike here
Nor under the title QuickTime-preferences
which opens System-preferences and the QuickTime menu
Still nothing as FCS color compatibility.
Am I looking in wrong direktion ?
Yours Bengt W

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Hi
Please tell more (or I'm not clever enough to get it)
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In QuickTime Player 7.6 (Mac OS X.4.11)
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Am I looking in wrong direktion ?
Yours Bengt W

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Grr. I had a nice response ready to post, and apparently the system logged me out and wouldn't let me log in while keeping the text. I'll condense it a bit, since I've stumbled across some additional points to ponder while typing.
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Yes, I see that the clip is 16-bit integer and the sequence supports 32-bit float, but this should not pose a problem since modern digital audio processing up-converts smaller sample formats to larger ones on the fly for processing, and exports whatever format is desired at the end. If this *was* the problem, I should always be off by a ratio of 2:1 on all audio data, but I'm not.
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