How to brighten up movie in MainConcept before encoding

[JamesyBHOY]

I am trying to encode an Avi Movie tp MPEG-2 in Mainconcept MPEG encoder but i have tested a small sample taken from the main movie but it is really dark compared to the original and i have searched through the program but i can't find any settings to brighten it up as far as i can see and hope somebody knows if it is at all possible to do this in this prog,Thanks..

[freestyler]

I don't think you can add what could be considered Effects in MainConcept. You are better off doing your encoding in TMPGEnc

[Laddydaddy]

You can use virtual dub to frameserve to main concept. vdub has a lot of filters including brightness/contrast filters to make the film brighter. You can also boost washed out colors using vdubs filters and sharpen images.

[budgie63]

On frameserving, does anyone know if the Main Concept Encoder will reliably read AVISynth scripts? Reason I ask is that I am very impressed with the quality and bitrate allocation that MC achieves in a single pass, but every time I feed it an .avs, the next time I try to run MC it refuses to run at all! I then uninstall/reinstall and it works OK again (for one encode). The XP error report mentions sonething about quartz.dll. TIA.

Budgie