Pictures changing contrast when imported to final cut

Hi everyone,
I am currently shooting a commercial for a local restaurant. Iinclude video along with pictures in the commercial. Only problem that i amrunning into is when i import the pictures into my timeline the picturescontrast gets all messed.. Basically the blacks get way to black and the whitesget over exposed.
Any ideas what may be causing this?
Thanks,
Mike

The way that I am aware of is to use an image editing application like Photoshop.
Open in the image in Photoshop, go to the menu Image > Mode and choose RGB color. Save the converted picture and import into FCP.
If you don't have Photoshop, I have seen the application Graphic Converter praised by a number of people, it has a free trial download:
http://www.lemkesoft.com/content/193/key-features.html
or you could Google around and see if there is something out there that will work for you.
Or, you could ask the person that suppled the images to provide them in the RGB format. CMYK is used for print, FCP works in the RGB color space and expects images to be RGB.
MtD

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