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Okay, this is getting really tiresome now. Final Cut Studio has become weird on an Intel Core Duo iMac. When the symptoms first appeared FCP would not launch at all. It would quit on startup with a window to send a report to Apple. On that occasion I trashed and reinstalled the entire FC Studio.
Following this the application opened so I assumed everything was OK. But then I went to import some AVCHD clips and FCP displayed the video with some weird looking semi-negative, metallic crappy special effects look. So ... I replaced the OS and reinstalled FCP Studio. Everything worked OK.
Now, a day later, I go to import some more AVCHD clips and we are back to the weird video. Yet the same file opens normally in QuickTime. There are two screenshots of the same frame to illustrate this. One from FCP and one from QuickTime.
http://grazer.free.fr/webstore/1_FCP.jpg
http://grazer.free.fr/webstore/2_QT.jpg
Has anyone seen this before or have any ideas because I am not going to devote another ten hours to reinstalling the poxy thing?

Hello again Michael,
Camera files are imported with Log & Transfer from SD cards with the AVCHD camera, P2 cards from the Panasonic HPX, from archived files of the complete card contents or imported from existing Capture Scratch files.
The point is that the MacBook Pro behaves normally and the iMac used to. I have no idea why the same version of FCP on the iMac has suddenly become strange. Even stranger is that after reinstalling both system and FCP it all worked correctly and shortly afterwards the same weird stuff started again.
Also, as mentioned, the Capture Scratch QT.mov file that FCP creates following a Log & Transfer reads normally with QuickTime - and iMovie - on the iMac.

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