how to lighten a video

mountainviews

I have some small video clips that I took with my digital camera, some are a bit dark, how can I adjust the brightness/, I can do it on single pictures that I took with my camera, but can't figure out how to do it with the video, my operating system is windows vista home premium, as far as I know I do not have any specific software to do the job.
thanks!

asbokid

mountainviews wrote: »

I have some small video clips that I took with my digital camera, some are a bit dark, how can I adjust the brightness/, I can do it on single pictures that I took with my camera, but can't figure out how to do it with the video, my operating system is windows vista home premium, as far as I know I do not have any specific software to do the job.
thanks!

try mencoder.. http://loquehumaine.wordpress.com/2010/11/20/eclaircir-une-video-avec-mencoder-lighten-a-video-with-mencoder/

WhiteChristmas

If you're running Windows than you probably already have the software you need. Import the file into Windows Movie Maker and apply "Brightness Increase" from the Edit menu.

There are lots of good guides to using WMM online. It's a surprisingly good little package which is often overlooked.

mountainviews

Hi Whitechristmas I have just gone to windows movie maker (didnt know I had it!) under edit there is nothing that says "Brightness increase"?

mountainviews

ooops! just found it, thanks!