Sorry i hope that ask i sent about the gif darkness didnt come off as complaining. I appreciate all that you do, just a comment about the movie more than your giffing abilities. Thanks!

Ha! Not at all. I just like griping about the process. I’m glad you said something because I didn’t even notice how dark everything was and I was able to fix the caps at least

*stone cold theme*

Here’s a good example of the catch-22 with this source video.

1st gif is the original dark one (too dark)

2nd is brightened with contrast turned down (too fuzzy/chippy image)

3rd is brightened with boosted contrast (crisp contrast obscures more details by darkening/REALLY chippy image/light parts too light/dark parts too dark)

thoughts and prayers!

Is the fly 2 really that dark a movie. Meaning just lacking lighting. The gif and pix are pretty dark.

I doubt it was filmed too dark or anything. The source video I used was very dark though. When you make gifs and you need to brighten due to dark source material, as was the case with THE FLY II, sometimes it’s hard to be able to tell where to stop if you’re not comparing it to other sources. If you go too bright, the image gets chippy, even if you have hd video. So with this particular source, there’s a very small margin for a satisfactory image. I basically have to blast the brightness and then even out the chippy image by boosting up the contrast pretty high. Kinda screwed either way because then the colors and values get too intense. I was able to adjust the caps though, and they look a bit better now.