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Chienworks wrote on 5/2/2002, 6:49 PM
I'm not sure i can come up with a simple easy way to brighten the clips for you, but this may help. On the right side of the screen at the bottom of the vertical scroll bar you'll see + and - buttons. Click on the + a few times and the tracks will all get taller, making the images on the timeline larger. That may do what you need to allow you to see them better.
Grazie wrote on 5/2/2002, 11:22 PM
JoeS

How is the overall "brightness" of your monitor or laptop screen? Maybe "bolstering" up this may also give you what you want. I have a laptop and when I've "expanded" the the clips in the timeline, vertically and horizontally, they are more available to be seen and less densley packed together. How is your eyesight - I am serious about this - a lot of time spent at the screen, for me at least, does take its toll. I know I need to "upgrade" my spectacles. Do you wear spectacles? Are their tinted or "photochromic" [become darker with exposure to strong light]? Or are you working "against" a background of light or sunshine coming in a window? Are your ambient light levels adjusted for what you are doing now?

These are only suggestions which I've employed to make my editing and general PC work more comfortable.

Regards

Grazie
JoeS wrote on 5/3/2002, 5:20 PM
hi,
thanks for the tips.
well, its not like my timeline clips are real dark, just was wondering if there was a way to taylor it a little.
oh yes! i sure do need glasses. esp working in electronics, everything is so small. i do know how to make the timeline bigger, that does help.

if i do a capture (which i have to do in vw4 with dell dazzle), then play the capture in vw4 or media player, brightness is good. when i take the avi to vf2 to edit, the image on the timeline and viewscreen is darker. if i apply an effect to increase the brightness, later when i again view the finished movie in vw4 or media player, its a bit too bright.

its not a big deal, still getting used to vf2. so in the learning process. i do like it a lot!

ciao'
Joe S
Grazie wrote on 5/4/2002, 12:29 AM
JoeS - you have done what all good scientists do do - a control. Hmmmm... So you put it through "another" software package and you can actually see that it is brighter - that is interesting.

However you say your capture process is : "which i have to do in vw4..". Question: Why don't you capture directly into VF using VF's capture? I don't know if it will make any difference but yer never know. Again, if you are capturing in VW4 and importing the clip into VF, how are you doing that? When I wanted to import a previuoisly VW5 captured clip I had to use Canopus's convertor - AV1 to AV2. There seems to be another layer you are introducing to get your clips into VF. Think this through and maybe just maybe this is where "darkness prevails". If Chienworks has been reading this then maybe we will see a response from that "font of knowledge"!

There will be a solution, I'm sure, but I am not technically minded enough to come up with one.

On the spectacle front, thanks for the feedback.

Tarah

Grazie