Using motion projects in FCP and having problems...

A co-worker of mine is having an issue with a motion project that is being placed into FCP. Every time he imports it, the contrast is diminished and the color gets washed out making the image look VERY washed out and flat. He has even tried to export the movie with various codecs and settings, but the same thing still happens. We are cutting a movie shot on the new Sony XDCam cameras. It was shot in 720p 24FPS @ 35mbits Everything looks great except this particular motion file. Does anyone have any suggestions? Thanks for any help.

hi,
It probably is faster but you just dont know it yet! If you had a day free you could time the two different methods.
Of course the second workflow comes into its own when you need to make changes. Open up the motion project and tweak. The changes automatically update in FCP. yes you have to watch in fcp, but your not outputting and reimporting etc. Also you dont have to render in fcp you can simply export.
thanks
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