I think I've just discovered a glaring oversight in the color correction controls for TMPGEnc Xpress. There's no brightness control!

There's something for luminance, which according to my vectorscope can be used to control black levels, but it's not the same as brigthness. There's a gamma filter, but it's not the same either.

I've looked through everything, but there's no brightness control. I mainly use version 3.0. I have a trial version of 4.0 as well, and everything's the same (no brigthness settings).

I used to do most of my color adjustments during capturing, but recently I've developed a preference of doing everything in post. This omission by TMPGEnc is really of bizarre to me.

Maybe I'm the one missing something here, but I don't think so. Any thoughts/insights are welcome!