raw AVI converts dark when use custom color audio no good

[l8t_br8kr]

I convert the video off of my DV camcorder to AVI (raw). It is always darker than what was on the camcorder. If I use tmpegenc and load videocd_NTFS.mfc it will convert nice, but it is so dark I can not see it. If I load the same videocd_NTFS.mfc and choose custom color in advanced and select basic color and change the brightness to were I can see it the video is choppy and the audio sounds like it was slowed down to more than half the speed. So much that I can not even understand it.

Any suggestions from anyone on how to fix it or lighten the color so I can see it? Any help is much apprectiated.

Cris

[Gravity]

Leave everything to 0 and try increasing the 'Gamma' hehe, maybe ti work

[l8t_br8kr]

After reading your reply, I did try that at it made it a little better, but far from good.

Any other suggestions. I do have a AMD 1ghz with 512 ram and running win 2K.

The thing that throughs me is that if I do not do custom color config it is great, gust dark.

[Gravity]

k one more try, you can edit the AVI in VirtualDub before you even encode, the drawback is u have to reencode the AVI then encode to VCD, or you can frameserv from VDub to TMPGEnc