My captured video is way dark

[jamie98s]

Im capturing video with my tv tuner card,but whenever i capture video it is way too dark,theres a brightness option in the prefs but it only makes viewing brighter,not capturing. i am using virtualdub,and also a program called wintv2000. i also have a program called Dscaler and the video is normal brightness when i capture from there BUT it wont compress the audio correctly,i tell it to compress the audio with lame MP3 but it alway compresses in PCM its soooooo annoying. this is really getting on my nerves. can anyone help me? thanks

[edDV]

In general, properly captured video will look dark on a PC display.
The true test is to burn a test DVD and view it on a target TV set. It's best to calibrate the TV to a color bar.

Many computer video viewing programs display video playback as an overlay from the display card. Playback parameters (brightness, contrast, etc.) are set in the display overlay properties. Many (like PowerDVD) will also offer deinterlacing features for progressive display.

[Bjs]

Two things here .

If you can use virtualdub too capture , apply video filter "brightness/contrast" in you capture setup prior to capturing the video , that will do the trick , just move the slider to the right .

I normally open one of the captured files and the setup this filter , then close the video file and go to video capture mode , the filter should still be present and already set to go .

As for the audio , in virtualdubs audio settings , chose full processing , then conversion , check its 48000hz , 16-bit , stereo , the save as wav .

You can then change the audio stream to the one that was saved .

Or if you prefer to get these over to dvd once completed , check out my guides in the newbies guide section in this forum , they cover it all .