iPhone 12 HDR Videos too Bright in Final Cut Pro, Convert to SDR

So the video files off your iPhone 12 beyond show extremely bright and overexposed when you try to edit on Final Cut Pro. For example, I tried to edit this video with mp4 clips from my other camera, the Sony a7c, with clips from my iPhone 12. The iPhone 12 clips are too bright while the mp4 clips from the Sony camera look normal. I want this video to be very simple. In addition I don’t want to change the settings to Wide Gamut HDR, I want to keep it Standard. So what you can do is click to Show the Effects Browser and type in the search bar the word HDR, then you see HDR Tools. Drag that to one of the iPhone clips. Then you see the clip got a little better, but that’s not enough. Next you have to click to Show the Video Inspector. In the HDR Tools, You’ll see HDR to REC 709 SDR, change that to HLG to REC 709 SDR and that’s it. What you could do now is to save time by going to EDIT and select COPY. Then PASTE EFFECTS to all iPhone clips. Of course you could select multiple clips and Paste Effects. I hope
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