Exporting XDCAM EX 1080i60 to another format = dark picture

Material was shot in XDCAM EX 1080i60. I noticed when I made screen caps for the client as .tifs that the image was much darker than my original footage. I tried to then export video clips, I tried exporting Pro Res HQ with and without gamma adjustment and tried exporting it out as it's native codec XDCAM EX,...all resulted in crunched blacks. I will need to convert this at some pint in the future and need to know how best to do it and maintain it's luminance.

Try exporting as quicktime movie with current settings, see what it looks like.
DM

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As far as I know there are no tools/export options within FCP7 (FCS3) and/or Quicktime to do what you probably want to do (compressed HD AVI export). But if a fully uncompressed 1920x1080 AVI export is ok for you / your client then you can use Export > Quicktime Conversion, set the Format to AVI and change the Options >> Video >> Settings >> Compression type to "None" ... bear in mind that this will produce some pretty big exports file size wise (about 6-7 GB per minute).
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