Media Studio Pro 7 - recording a brighter picture

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I always seem to have a dark picture when recording a video from
television. If I brighten the picture using one of the filters then
the quality will be reduced and the rendering takes longer.

I feed the video directly into a analog to video converter (ADVC-100)
and to the firewire card.

If there any way of brighting the picture as the video is being
recorded into ULead Media Studio Pro?

Regards Brian

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Brian wrote:
> I always seem to have a dark picture when recording a video
> from television. If I brighten the picture using one of the
> filters then the quality will be reduced and the rendering
> takes longer.
>
> I feed the video directly into a analog to video converter
> (ADVC-100) and to the firewire card.
>
> If there any way of brighting the picture as the video is
> being recorded into ULead Media Studio Pro?
>
> Regards Brian

I presume you are writing about what the pic looks like on your
PC monitor?
If you NEVER intend to play the capture on a TV, then perhaps
brightening at capture time would be worthwhile. I seriously
doubt this is the case, tho.

One really nice way to view your stream, to make these
decisions, is on the TV you would most likely use to play them
in the future. This is a device I picked up some years ago
http://www.ramelectronics.net/html [...] apter.html so
I do not know what the price is like today (less than US$100
then).

PC monitors are darker than TV displays (and personally the MAG
TFT flat screen is way darker than other monitors I've used).
If I want to watch something on the PC monitor, for some
perverted reason, I use the decoder to tweak the playback
settings. No extra time involved.

BJ

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"Billy Joe" <see.sig@invalid.org> wrote:

>Brian wrote:
>> I always seem to have a dark picture when recording a video
>> from television. If I brighten the picture using one of the
>> filters then the quality will be reduced and the rendering
>> takes longer.
>>
>> I feed the video directly into a analog to video converter
>> (ADVC-100) and to the firewire card.
>>
>> If there any way of brighting the picture as the video is
>> being recorded into ULead Media Studio Pro?
>>
>> Regards Brian
>
>I presume you are writing about what the pic looks like on your
>PC monitor?
>If you NEVER intend to play the capture on a TV, then perhaps
>brightening at capture time would be worthwhile. I seriously
>doubt this is the case, tho.
>
>One really nice way to view your stream, to make these
>decisions, is on the TV you would most likely use to play them
>in the future. This is a device I picked up some years ago
>http://www.ramelectronics.net/html/PC-TV_video_adapter.html so
>I do not know what the price is like today (less than US$100
>then).
>
>PC monitors are darker than TV displays (and personally the MAG
>TFT flat screen is way darker than other monitors I've used).
>If I want to watch something on the PC monitor, for some
>perverted reason, I use the decoder to tweak the playback
>settings. No extra time involved.
>
>BJ
>
Thanks Billy for your reply.
I have created a DVD video from the video and played it on the TV and
it still looks dark. There is a small improvement.
I have an old style 17 inch monitor (not a thin monitor).

Just to make sure I'm not being mislead in my judgement I'll record a
few minutes of TV and take notice of the amount of brightness on the
live TV broardcast. Then playback the recorded DVD on the same TV and
see if the picture has the same amount of brightness.

Regards Brian