movies captured are too dark

[Guest]

I have a Canon ZR300, video looks great on the camera screen, records great
(bright and sharp) on to a free standing DVD recorder, however, when
capturing to my PC via firewire (a Sony Viao Pentium 4 CPU 2.66 GHZ with 526
of RAM) video becomes grainy and dark. This happens in the pre-view screen on
my pc and also the final product. (DVD). This is my 2nd video camera that i
have tried to capture video from with identical results. What am i doing
wrong? I capture in the highest Quality format Windows Movie maker allows.

 

[Guest]

have you saved it just to your computer or are you directly going to windows
movie maker and importing or downloading it?

 

[Guest]

First I save it to my computer and when playing it back evenbefore editing it
in movie maker..picture is probably about 4-5 shades darker than the original
video

 

[Guest]

In Windows media player adjust the brightness / contrast of the unedited
(captured) version prior to importing into movie maker, then save, then
import.