picture quality

Ant wrote on 10/15/2004, 6:44 AM

I have a Sony Handycam and I use Screenblast Movie Studio to capture my recordings. Everytime I capture pictures, they turn out really dark. I have to brighten the pictures each time in order to adequately view them, however the quality suffers from me doing this. I have tried to take the pictures with the Nightshot Plus feature on my handycam both on and off, when this option is turned on, it seems to help slightly. Now when I view the pictures on the camcorder they look nice. This camera and software is equipment I use at work and my work PC has a very low end video card. The video card is 16MB of some old Nvidia technology. Could the video card be my problem? Or is it that the handycam do not take high quality photographs?

Comments

marcprice wrote on 10/15/2004, 6:53 AM

Is it not just a problem with your monitor....turn up the brightness and contrast?

My sony handycam and movie studio combination give exellent results

Ant wrote on 10/15/2004, 7:04 AM

Thank you for the reply. I turned the brightness and contrast settings all the way up on my monitor, however this only seemed to help slightly, and actually now the monitor seems to bright. The quality is still nowhere near the quality I see on the camcorder. Could the picture format have something to do with the problem? I am capturing the pictures as Jpegs.

ADinelt wrote on 10/16/2004, 10:36 AM

Have you tried rendering to DVD and viewing the pictures on your TV to see how they look?

SSpielberg wrote on 10/20/2004, 5:28 AM

I have the same problem. I also have to adjust the settings for my video card driver (GeForce 5200) to increase brightness, gamma while editing and viewing videos. I also have to make different settings for viewing photos then change hem back while runnung other programmes! This appears to be the only solution until I can afford a new LCD monitor. The video card was changed about 6 months ago so the problem is definitely with the monitor.