How to brighten video clips

**Moon Raker** · March 3rd, 2015, 12:02 PM

There have been several suggestions made on VEF on how to brighten JPGs taken from a darkly-filmed scene but can any VEFer point me to any software (preferably freeware!) which can be used to enhance a dark video clip? Or am I expecting the impossible?

phil3x · March 3rd, 2015, 03:39 PM

VLC media player can do just that for you

**seany65** · March 3rd, 2015, 06:29 PM

Moon Raker, do you mean just when watching, as with brightness/contrast/gamma controls like VLC media player or windows media player have, or do you mean to brighten it etc. and 'save' it as a new clip that's brighter etc. to start off with, so's you don't have to faff about with thsoe controls every time you want to watch it?

**MrInBetween** · March 3rd, 2015, 08:12 PM

You can in fact do both in VLC - set the gamma correction using the Adjustment and Effects panel (press CTRL-E) and then save the result using the method described here: http://www.wintips.org/how-to-rotate...c-media-player (point no 7 onwards). There are supposedly other ways of doing this - for example, Convert/Save (CTRL-R) and then put the correct parameters into Edit Options (have to tick 'Show more options' to see this) but I haven't been able to get that to work.

**Moon Raker** · March 4th, 2015, 08:42 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by seany65

Moon Raker, do you mean just when watching, as with brightness/contrast/gamma controls like VLC media player or windows media player have, or do you mean to brighten it etc. and 'save' it as a new clip that's brighter

Quote:

Originally Posted by MrInBetween

You can in fact do both in VLC

Thanks for the responses and I should have made my requirement clearer. I want to be able to brighten/enhance the video on a permanent basis (i.e. save it back to a file) so that I can upload the corrected file for other members. I will give the VLC gamma adjustment method a try later this week.

**Jism Jim** · March 6th, 2015, 04:25 PM

Virtualdub and Avidemux have brightness filters.

racefan · March 10th, 2015, 12:38 PM

Always had the same question - so thanks for the answers here!

**Blue126** · March 15th, 2015, 10:36 PM

TMPGEnc Video Mastering Works 5, your complete package...it does what it says on the can.
also MeGUI does, but we are talking experienced pro's on this, but we have many experts, who will happily give advice here...just ask

March 3rd, 2015, 12:02 PM	#1
Moon Raker Veteran Member Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: UK Posts: 11,781 Thanks: 8,945 Thanked 231,171 Times in 11,999 Posts	How to brighten video clips There have been several suggestions made on VEF on how to brighten JPGs taken from a darkly-filmed scene but can any VEFer point me to any software (preferably freeware!) which can be used to enhance a dark video clip? Or am I expecting the impossible?

March 3rd, 2015, 06:29 PM	#3
seany65 Vintage Member Join Date: May 2009 Posts: 3,652 Thanks: 80,476 Thanked 32,740 Times in 3,528 Posts	Moon Raker, do you mean just when watching, as with brightness/contrast/gamma controls like VLC media player or windows media player have, or do you mean to brighten it etc. and 'save' it as a new clip that's brighter etc. to start off with, so's you don't have to faff about with thsoe controls every time you want to watch it? __________________ <-- That's Emer Kenny and I want to be stuck in her front bottom. Quote from electrofreak : I'd rather have questions that can't be answered, than answers that can't be questioned.

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March 3rd, 2015, 03:39 PM	#2
phil3x Member Join Date: Oct 2009 Posts: 13 Thanks: 232 Thanked 94 Times in 9 Posts	VLC media player can do just that for you

March 10th, 2015, 12:38 PM	#7
racefan Junior Member Join Date: Apr 2007 Posts: 8 Thanks: 4,156 Thanked 33 Times in 7 Posts	Always had the same question - so thanks for the answers here!