Washed out playback

Whenever I try to initially view HD trailers the video is totally washed out unless I manually adjust a/v controls also when I watch some video podcasts I have to continually mouse over the frame to un-wash the picture.

Any answers for this? I'm having the same problem with videos I made. Video made in FCP on a Mac looks terrible on QT and iTunes on the PC. They are completely washed out but will come back to normal by moving the mouse around.

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afraid you are mistaken, looking at the file on a PC will be quite different to looking at it on a mac and I am thinking this may be where your issues start.
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http://provideocoalition.com/index.php/cmg_blogs/story/brightness_issues_with_h264_quickti me_movies/
http://www.videocopilot.net/blog/2008/06/fix-quicktime-gamma-shift/
http://imnotbruce.blogspot.com/2011/07/fixing-quicktimes-gamma-export-problem.html
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/1358418?start=0&tstart=0
http://byteful.com/blog/2010/07/how-to-fix-the-h264-gamma-brightness-bug-in-quicktime/
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