My digital camera can make movies in Quicktime .MOV format. Sometimes, if I forget to bump up the exposure value setting, movies taken indoors come out a little to dark and I’d like to be able to adjust them. From searching, it seems the Quicktime Player can do this, but I hate it; I use the Quicktime Alternative player for a reason. Are there any freeware utilities that can do the same thing? The only ones I’ve found so far only work on a Mac.
The first person to suggest getting a Mac instead gets my size 10s imprinted on their backside.
It seems to do what I want, but how do you save the changes? I can play it back within the player, but I see no way to save your new brightness/contrast settings.
Perhaps I should clarify what I want to do: I want to change the brightness/contrast of a .MOV file itself, not just the settings in a player. That way, I can send the file to someone and they can watch it as it’s supposed to look. Sorry if I wasn’t clear before; cold medicine is kicking my ass.
I realized after posting that that was probably what you actually wanted to do. (Unfortunately I was without an internet connection the past couple days).
To change the movie itself, you’ll need to re-encode it with the modified settings.
Ffmpeg might work, but I don’t think it does well on Quicktime. It’s a command-line tool, but I’d bet it’s been incorporated into a GUI utility on Windows (I only know of the Mac ones).
VirtualDub is probably the best option, though I haven’t used it myself. It’s probably more power than what you need, but it could come in handy for other editing you wish to do. The avisynth tips page has some suggestions that should help in working with Quicktime movies (avisynth is a conversion utility, IIRC).
A while back Ars Technica had an article on video editing using these tools; there’s probably more useful information to be found there.
