Issues converting my h264 footage to AppleProRes 4442HQ

Hello everyone, I shot an interview with 2 HDMI lights an Actor and black background. I was very picky about setting the right color temperature in Kelvin degrees with a Sekonic color meter, I also adjusted the Canon 7D settings to make the recording less saturated and less contrasty in the picture style menu. Moreover, I checked everything during the shoot on a calibrated 24 inch monitor that I was using as big viewfinder trough the HDMI connection. Now that I need to convert every clip from H264 to AppleProRes 442 HQ for editing purpose I noticed that my final converted mov file is very different from what I shot. Let me explain, the black background was having a kind of pattern/texture that disappeared, the image is much more contrasty, the skin tone of the talent changed and overall everything is more dark. The only settings that I touched were: no sound, size 1920X1080 HD, 24 fps. Does anybody know if the check box on Automatic Gamma should be disabled? I kept it on Automatic as it is by default. There is a template of settings that I should use in this delicate phase? Thank you very much for your appreciated help.

rumblemac wrote:
As a monitor during production I used an HP Dreamcolorzx.
A computer display, not a standard NTSC broadcast quality monitor. It does claim to reproduce the full NTSC color gamut, but that does not necessarily make it broadcast quality. I'll wait for someone to chime in on that.
Right now I'm just using my apple laptop's 17 display (matte).
You should really check it on an external NTSC monitor before spending too much more time.
My MacBook Pro is not calibrated however when I play the two clips in QuickTime the h264 mov file is closer to what I shot, whereas the apple pro res one is like 2 stops darker and very saturated.
It's not recommended, but you can import the h.264 into FCP to compare the two files in FCP. Have you looked at them in FCP yet?
I chose to save as appleprores 442HQ and I understood why should not do it again, but that besides making the file heavier is not related to the main Issue that everything is darker with default settings.
Probably correct.
Once again, how was the HP Dreamcolorz monitor calibrated on set?
Once again, how did you convert the files to ProRes?

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