Actually, I've been tinkering with those, but I wanted to show the raw version for comparison's sake. It does make some improvements. Maybe I'll make some MPEGs showing a half & half pic with the adjustments.
"That gray starfield is just painful to look at."
True, but ironically, it gives the scene more visual depth as well. It takes a long time to find a good balance in the AVI that transfers over to the MPEG (not to mention the fact that I finally got my software DVD player working correctly. I can't believe how off that damn thing was!) Remember how many details were lost in your previous "dark" transfer?!? I want to preserve as many of those details as I can.