Winfast 2000xp - adjusting video settings - help!

[cmfslc]

The real question: How to adjust screen brightness without affecting capture?

Here's the problem...whether I'm capturing a hi8 tape or watching a program, the brightness level is quite low in the viewing window. (ie. it looks great on the LCD of the camera, it looks way dark on the computer screen). Once transferred to DVD and played back on a regular TV, it also looks great. On my monitor, it looks about 30% too dark.

How do I brighten up the screen? Everything else on the desktop is nice and bright and perfect color. Just the Winfast screen looks dark. If I go to my ASUS videocards control panel and adjust brightness...the desktop gets brighter, but it doesn't affect the Winfast window...it stays dark.

When I go into Winfast tools, click the video camera at the top, I get to a screen where I can adjust video settings, including brigntness, contrast, etc. I can make it look great. Does this affect the avi/mpg file that is being captured? If it does, my avi files are going to be over-exposed. If it just affects monitoring, I'll be fine.

I had a similar problem when playing back DVDs that I solved by making brightness adjustments in the playback software (WinDVD). It obviously didn't affect the recording, just what I see on screen. Do the Video Settings do the same thing in Winfast, or do the affect the capture as well?

How do I make the winfast screen brighter without affecting the capture? If this is a hardware or Windows XP or wdm driver or other software problem, let me know. I'm lost. Please help me fix it.

I have an AMD 2400+, 512 ram, Windows XP, Assus 128 videocard, Winfast 2000 XP Deluxe card from Leadtek.

[foghorn02]

If you have the right drivers, you may be able to increase the video overlay brightness in your display settings.

[cmfslc]

How do I do that?