Lost Video Island

[AmyMac]

Ok, I'm a huge fan of vid making, have made several myself...but I have to tell you that I don't watch some others because they are so dark. Brightness is your friend people! It really kills it for me when I'm watching a video squinting my eyes trying to figure out what clip is playin...just a thought, I'm not tryin to sound rude.

[lostzilla]

I think it's always bright in my vid...so..

[Hobbes]

I have the same problem, only with BRIGHTNESS! When a video is brightened, there really isn't much of a difference in visibility, it just makes it gray instead of black, the way it's SUPPOSED to be >.< All a viewer has to do to be able to see all the videos perfectly well is adjust their screen brightness. The screens, on default, SHOULD be on the brightest/near-brightest settings anyway.

Anyway, my two cents as a judge, the brighten effect thing gets EXTREMELLY annoying throughout.... I'd like to blame the directors for failing to light properly It makes it tough to do.

[Uruviel]

I have a prob when I view vids, they are almost always too dark. However, I'm pretty sure it's my monitor or vid card, cause I always put my own vids on a VCD to show my mom on the tv and they look just fine there. Makes it kinda hard to put dark scenes in my vids but I always think they look worse when I brighten them.

[Aislynn]

Since I can't brighten or darken my clips, I'm at the mercy of how they were lit when they were shot!

Warning: Rant about to commence

But that is SOOO one of my pet-peeves, when a TV show gives you scenes so dark it's almost impossible to tell what you're looking at or what's going on! I know, it's "dramatic" and all that. But not if I can't tell what I'm looking at!

AHHHHH!!!

End of rant

~Aislynn

[Hobbes]

again, turning up the contrast on your computer screen INCREDIBLY increass the brightness issue. Just increasing brightness doesn't really, however.... it just makes it look worse after you've crossed a certain point.

[Ringwench]

THere's always the handy dandy graphics equalizer in Windows Media Player that you can slide the little "brightness" bar over for darker vids.