Movie encodes waay too dark

Using Gknot 0.27, DivxPro5.02, qpel, gmc, bframes. Set the compression at 95% of the compressibility check result. sharp bicubic resize filter, ivtc in dvd2avi, vbr mp3 160kb/s. Move is "The Bourne Identity" - and yes, I own it, bought it yesterday! ^_^ Great flick, but during the entire movie, light areas come out looking like unlight dark and shadowy... anyone tell me the reason this happens, and any possible solution? I know divx compresses darker areas more easily, but compressibility isn't really that big of a concern for me (within reason) and I don't like thie movie looking like a big shadow...You can't even see Matt Damon's eye sockets half the time, it's like he's the Avenger lol...

All my DivX movies come out too dark from the original DVD, and I haven't found simple way of fixing it. I'm surprised this isn't in a FAQ somewhere. Since I use Gordian Knot and not VDub, I'd like to "brighten" it up the offsetting amount with an AVS Script entry (since you can do it before GKnot processes), but I don't understand the "Levels" script command syntax. Can anyone AVISynth experts help? Robert

Yep, all my DivX movies are too dark. Damn, now I'll need to redo them. I wonder why this isn't mentioned more frequently in this forum. I'll try a standard of 150,0 and see how that goes. Thanks! Robert

Brighten DivX with AVS 

Here is the script I use, it adds a bit of brightness to the movie. LoadPlugin("C:\Program Files\Software\DV\Video\MPEG2DEC\MPEG2DEC.DLL") mpeg2source("E:\Video\Queen\Queen-DivX.d2v") Crop(2,56,716,368) CropBottom(2) BilinearResize(640,272) Levels(0,1.2,255,0,255) The only part you need to be really concerned with is the '1.2' in the Levels. Normally it is 1.0...but increasing it gently increases brightness. 1.2 or 1.3 is about the most you should ever need. Good Luck

If I adjust the gamma of an encode to 1.2 with LEVELS, what's a good contrast setting to offset the washing of colors within AVISynth? Thanks for your lengthy reply. I'm learning something here. :D Robert