Washed out blacks with H.264

When i export my sequence with H.264 from FCP all the blacks seem to be washed out,
anyone else on this forum find this happens to them?
is there anyway to correct it?

There's a brightness and contrast filter you can add to the h.264 file as you compress it. Might try that... in the options/filters button...
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