Low brighteness captured clips also durind editing but ...

[gutzs]

Hi guys
Please help me... the captured clips (mini Dv) are very dark in my monitor and editing results very difficult, but when I export to tape the final product the images are displaied in the Tv with the original brightness. I can't do some color correction to the clips after capturing because the result after export may be dummy, so what I can do ? where is the problem?

thanks a lot..

Gutzs

[guns1inger]

The problem is in your monitor calibration. You have the brightness/contrast set too low. You have a couple of choices

1. Calibrate your monitor correctly
2. Connect an external monitor and use this while editing

[rgs_uk]

Computer monitors and TV screens display things differently. It does not mean that your monitor is set up 'incorrectly'. Just that the video was made to look right on a TV screen.

My monitor is set up correctly to work with Photoshop, my printer and my digital camera and many videos appear too dark. If you change the monitor settings for these videos, then web pages and all kinds of other stuff will look wrong. It will be OK if you are using the system for video editing and nothing else...

For playback, your best bet is a player such as Media Player Classic or VideoLan that lets you adjust the brightness of the video.

For colour correcting during editing, you need to display the video on a TV screen -- either as you work, or output some test clips on a CD and play them in your DVD player.