FCP X to Vimeo colour workflow (plus vectorscope question)

Two disclaimers first off:
1. I know there has been discussion of gamma/colour/contrast shifts in videos uploaded to Vimeo for years eg:
https://vimeo.com/forums/topic:46866
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3627103
http://www.cinematography.com/index.php?showtopic=56262&st=0&gopid=372768&#entry 372768 (post #6)
2. I'm not an expert on the technicalities of colour editing and realise there are issues with my workflow that are probably to blame for at least some of the problem I'm encountering.
So....
I edit my footage in FCP X and get it looking how I want in the viewer (probably a mistake, but I now have a project looking how I want and I need to figure how to compensate for Vimeo uploading). I export with x264 encoder via Compressor and after uploading the image is darker, less saturated and has a slight colour shift. Below is the Vimeo result on the left and the original how I want it on the right.
What differences do people see and how would anyone suggest making alterations to the pre-upload verison to compensate for them?
I've tried making gamma and brightness/contrast alternations with Compressor filters which gets it almost there, but there's still something about the FCP X image which is just more vivid. What is that?
What is represented by the density/thickness of the vectorscope marks? Here is one for the original then one for the Vimeo screenshot reinserted to FCP (is that a stupid thing to do?)
All advice welcome and appreciated. Thanks!

There is no "one size fits all" solution, of course.
Nevertheless, I think the idea of creating a library for each "production" is a sound one.
If you have material that you tend to reuse, it may also be a good idea to keep a library for this kind of thing.
FCP X ensures that there is no interlibrary dependency - so, for example, if you use a clip from library A in a project that sits in library B, it will be copied over.
If you fear that this will start filling your drive with many copies of the same thing, there is a solution for it, too. It is called "external media". FCP X makes it easy to organize this stuff: when importing, you get to choose where to copy the files where you want them to be (into the library itself or somewhere else; or even to "keep in place" if the files are already in your drive).
External media is never copied (nor, it must be stressed, is it deleted!) by FCP X, it simply works with symlinks (which are like aliases, very small files) that point to it. So you could reuse the same file in many libraries with minimal overhead.

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