AF-100 Solid Black Background noise when played on television

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DavidSchaffer

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I have a series made for web and the background is showing up solid black on computer screens. There are some that are going to watch using a tv as a monitor. The black in this case is showing up with noise and a pixelation look on a majority if the videos. Why would it do this on some and not others. How do I get it to stop?
 
How do you edit and export?

How do you distribute for TV? DVD? Local TV? Or users just using TV's as monitors?

WEB and broadcast are two very different things. And computers show video in very different ways as well depending on OS and players.
 
Thank-you for the reply. This is web specific, and people are just hooking computers to watch on t.v monitors. Editing is FCP and current export settings are h.264.
 
Probably compression artifacts. Check your original footage, if its clean then its compression. If it is compression noise try a higher rate.
 
The best way to check is to set it up the way people will see it in your edit suite. So can you output to a TV (mini display port to hdmi cable will do this)? If so like Erik says, if your orig looks good it is a compression problem.

I do this in FCPX to sort of view how things will look on TV. And this is most likely how your viewers will see the videos.

But this is not the same as using a Kona, Matrox, BM or whatever to output true video for evaluation.

Pixelasation is most likely compression. Also bear in mind that TV's are generally set much brighter than computer screens.

It can be tough to make things look good on Macs, PC's and TV's usually it is a compromise. You can experiment with crushing your blacks a bit. I use Sorenson Squeeze to compress for the web. You can very quickly preview how it will look with lots of different settings. So if you have a TV hooked to your Mac you can get a good idea of how things will look. I also always check how it looks on a PC.
 
Since it was web only I tested it on Mac and PC monitors blacks were fine. It is just when viewed on televisions. I will try the higher bit rate they are around 4,000 as it is. Could it be a negative effect of color correction?
 
Here is a quick CC on your jpg, see how this one looks on all the monitors, your blacks were not very black.

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