Well, tonight I put the menu on hold and switched back to the video encoding. I took my test DVD over to a friend's house and was very dissapointed at how dark my video came out. I've spent the past few hours tweaking my color correction process, and this is the result...
Not only did I brighten the video up significantly, but black levels are still black, and the color is even more vivid. If you saw my raw capture, you wouldn't believe that these screencaps came from it.
At first glance, the only thing I don't like about these is the noise. I'll try to work on that.
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