[b]How to bright up a captured movie?[/b]

[alllcl]

I am a newbie. Please help.
I just bought a Dazzle Hollywood DV bridge. Installation was a breeze.
My first project is to capture my favorite 10 year old out of print VHS movie. I used the Video Wave software came with Dazzle to capture movie into huge AVI files. The quality is very good. Sharp and clear. But it is also much darker than the original. I can hardly see night scenes of the movie.
Is this normal? I can't find a setting to adjust this. Can someone give me a hint? Or please suggest another capture program you think can do better than Videowave. Thank you.
Amy

[FiEND]

this is normal. it looks OK on your TV because your TV is set much brighter than your monitor, as all are.

what you need on your computer is VIDEO OVERLAY CONTROLS, usually in your video card drivers control panel. these adjustments only adjust the overlay playback (or editing etc) of videos.

also there are usually controls in media players to adjust the colors etc of the videos playing on your monitor.

if you did use a filter to brighten up the video, it would look very bad if you played it back on a TV.

if you are only going to view them on PC monitors or need to brighten them up for web streaming media or to send to friend etc. then your capture program should have controls. if not, the program you use to encode the video should have filters to do this.

a good capture program to brighten things up would be iuvcr from www.iulabs.com (it allows you to adjust all the controls for each individual channel as some are worse than others, and for comp/svid inputs as well). probably easier to do it with a filter in your video editor/encoder though.

[alllcl]

Thanks for your time explaining about this again. I saw your prior posting helping another person with same problem. I should have searched for answers before I post a question.

[pijetro]

1) This is normal.

2)Not familiar with your capture software, but there should be an option under or near the capture devices, where you can adjust the brightness, hue and contrast during capture.

3) Did you get your monitor calibrated? it makes a beg difference. The only program that I know can do this is through Adobe Photoshop. Check it out at http://nickyguides.digital-digest.com/gamma-setup.htm

4) If you ever playback on TV one day, your TV plays back about 10%-20% lighter anyways, so you wouldn't need to adjust your capture settings.

good luck!!!!!!