How To Lighten The Darkness On a Film download

[Lennoxtown]

Hi.


Re: How To Lighten The Darkness On a Film download

I have a film download, but the picture quality is quite dark
and i would like the make the picture lighter is there anything
i can do.

What about software?

Thanks..

[guns1inger]

What do you want to do with it ?

If it is just to be played on the PC, use VLC and look under Settings for Extended GUI. From here you can alter brightness etc. This isn't a permenant change however.

If it is for DVD, you may not have to do anything. Images generally appear darker on the PC that they will on a TV.

Remember though, if you up the brightness you will also expose all the encoding compression flaws that are probably invisible on your PC at the moment.

[SingSing]

If it is for DVD, you may not have to do anything. Images generally appear darker on the PC that they will on a TV.

[Lennoxtown]

Hi.

I should have put it better.

What i would like to do is, recode the download, making the picture quality lighter, what ever way i can, then rip the new files on to a new disc.

I hope this sounds more understanding..

[noki]

I'm sure the higher-quality video editors such as Vegas or Premiere will allow you to alter the brightness, gamma, hue, saturation, etc. and then save it as the same or different format.

Personally I use Discreet Cleaner to change all the above-mentioned settings if I wish to. Bon chance.

[AlanHK]

What i would like to do is, recode the download, making the picture quality lighter, what ever way i can, then rip the new files on to a new disc.

A download file is generally an AVI file. If not, please advise.

If you're encoding that to DVD, generally you use an Avisynth script to filter the file en route to the encoder.
There are many, many filters for cleaning up video files.

# file: 101_D.avs
AVISource("101_D.avi")
Tweak (bright=50)
LanczosResize(720,480,0,0,576,320)

This for instance loads the file 101_D.avi, then brightens it (a lot), and resizes it to normal DVD size.
It uses the built in function "Tweak" which can change brightness, contrast, etc.
You can adjust this interactively.
Make a basic AVS file like the above. Load it as a video into VirtualDubMod.
Then Play it for a while.
Stop the video, open the Tools/Script editor. You can change the value of the brightness (up to 255), press F5 to save and reload.

When you're happy with that, load the AVS file in your encoder and make MPEG2.

Docs for the Avisynth filters come with the program.