Export back to FCP looks different

I have a project in apple prores 422 in FCP. I sent it to color with no problems and did my color correct. Then I rendered it, and sent it back to Final cut pro. the image in FCP is considerably warmer and the blacks are clipped so there is no detail in black areas. It looks completely different in Color.
Any ideas of what I'm doing wrong? All of this is being judged on the same monitor so that's not the issue.
Thanks for your help,
Adam
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The issue here, and its surprising you are coming up empty with the search because it is discussed almost hourly, is a gamma difference in Quicktime.
Up to Snow Leopard, MacOS has based their luminance transfer characteristic (gamma) coefficient of 1.8 to display graphic images on a Cinema Display or other panel. This makes sense to Apple, since they assume that almost 100 percent of their client base are using their computers for Photoshop, word processing and so on... and 1.8 is the prepress rendition that is standard industry-wide.
Broadcast video, on the other hand, uses a Rec709 gamma characteristic that is in the range of 2.2, which is more than a few percent different. It isn't your Quicktime media that is actually darker and a different color, it is the way Quicktime is decoding and displaying it within the MacOS, which is why it can look different on the same screen. Unless you instruct FCP to operate under Rec709 2.2 gamma, it will default to the system OS Colorsync 1.8 coefficient.
COLOR operates outside the Mac OS Colorsync supervisor -- it is entirely predicated on a system gamma of 2.2.
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