Adjusting the Gamma..

[cinemakatherine]

Hello everyone! I'm not sure if this is a fixable problem, but I thought I'd go ahead and ask anyway. My monitor seems to be too bright most of the time. For instance, the internet explorer icon is almost white instead of blue! Since I do a whole lot of video capturing, I need to keep the brightness at about 35. (that way my videos aren't to dark on the screen) Even when I have the brightness at 35, everything except the video is too bright. Since I don't want my videos dark, I decided to use the Adobe Gamma program to fix the brightness. This seems to fix the whole brightness issue, but then I have another video darkness problem. When I have a video opened in (example) windows media player, it looks perfect! ..but then if I try and edit the video in an editing program (examples Pinnacle or Video Explosion) it's too dark to see! I think all of this has something to do with the video overlay or something like that. I can view it fine when it's in the windows media player and when I capture - it's just when I edit that it gets extremely dark. I was thinking that my computer might not recognize it as a video in my editing programs. Well, I know this sounds extremely complicated - but hopefully someone knows what I'm talking about! Thank you so much! Bye!

I'm attaching a picture showing how dark the video gets when it's opened in an editing program. It a lot darker than it should be! When I open it in the windows media player, it looks absolutely perfect. (so I don't really know what I could do - if anything - to fix it)

Here's some more information if you need it...
I'm running Windows XP
My display adapter is the Intel(R) 82810 Graphics Controller
and my monitor is an HP Pavilion Mx70

Thanks again! It's no big deal if it can't be fixed, I can stand things on the desktop to be a little bright. Bye!

- Katherine

[BipolarBill]

If the Intel graphics advanced properties have no gamma adjustment, perhaps you should consider a video upgrade?

This one is for PCI slots (white slots):

http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProduct.asp?submit=property&DEPA=0

If you have an AGP slot (short brown), you have many more choices.