# Editing digital camera video footage

**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/editing-digital-camera-video-footage/325915
**Category:** Factual Questions
**Created:** [October 12, 2005, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/editing-digital-camera-video-footage/325915 "2005-10-12T16:57:59Z")
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### Author: ![baileygrrrl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e19b73/32.png) [@baileygrrrl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/baileygrrrl)
#### Post date: [October 12, 2005, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/editing-digital-camera-video-footage/325915/1 "2005-10-12T16:57:59Z")

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My crappy little digital camera takes short videos but they often turn out dark because there is no flash involved. Is there a program that I can use to edit the videos and perform simple functions such as to lighten them?

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### Author: ![Kinthalis](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kinthalis/32/16084_2.png) [@Kinthalis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kinthalis)
#### Post date: [October 12, 2005, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/editing-digital-camera-video-footage/325915/2 "2005-10-12T17:46:44Z")

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> [@baileygrrrl](#):
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> My crappy little digital camera takes short videos but they often turn out dark because there is no flash involved. Is there a program that I can use to edit the videos and perform simple functions such as to lighten them?

VirtualDub is free and will do what you want. [http://www.virtualdub.org](http://www.virtualdub.org)