2 Easy Ways to Make A Video Darker and Fix the Over Bright Video

When you take a video in an over-bright situation, or you just set a higher ISO parameter of your camera, you will get an overly bright video with blurry images. So how to make the video darker to fix this problem? The easiest way is to change the video parameters, including the brightness, saturation, contrast, and hue. Moreover, you can also add preset filters to make a video darker quickly. Here you will learn about two efficient ways to help you fix over bright videos.

Part 1: The Ultimate Way to Make A Video Darker with High Quality

To make a video darker and enhance the video quality, AnyMP4 Video Converter Ultimate must be your best choice. With this powerful video editor, you can easily adjust the brightness of videos and change the contrast to make videos clearer. Moreover, it provides many editing tools to help you crop, rotate, cut the videos, or make a video collage on Windows/Mac.

Key Features:

• 1. Make a video darker by simply dragging the brightness slider.
• 2. Adjust the contrast, saturation, hue, and other parameters freely.
• 3. Provide many preset filters and effects to enhance your videos.
• 4. Additional editing tools to crop, flip, rotate, add music to videos, etc.

Step 1: Free download AnyMP4 Video Conveimate and launch it on Windows/Mac. Click the Add Files button or Plus icon on the main interface to select the desired bright video you want to darken.

Step 2: Click the Edit icon below the video, and then choose the Effects&Filters menu in the popping-up window to start adjusting the video parameters. Just move the slider of the Brightness option to the left to make a video darker. You can also change the saturation, contrast, and hue to make your video clearer. Usually, lower contrast and higher hue are recommended.

Step 3: In addition to making a video darker, you can add filters, background music, and subtitles to your videos. By clicking the Cut icon below the video, you can trim your videos into several segments and clip the extra part.

Step 4: After saving all the settings, you can go back to the main interface and click the Save To option to choose the desired storage path. Then click the Convert All button to save the darker videos.

Part 2: How to Make A Video Darker in After Effects [Complex Solution]

As a professional video editor, After Effects also support making a video darker. Obviously, it supports more functions, including hue separation, RGB curve, etc. However, it's really difficult to find the settings and adjust the parameters for beginners. You can follow the next steps to make a video darker in After Effect:

Step 1: Launch Adobe After Effects on your computer. Click the File menu and choose the Import option to add the desired video. Then you can drag the video file to the timeline and edit it.

Step 2: After that, the information and parameters of the video are shown in the right-side box. Just click the Effects&Presets button and choose the Brightness option. Then click the Brightness & Contrast button in the drop-down menu, and you can adjust the settings on the left side. Change the value of brightness and contrast to make a video darker.

Note: Since you can only enter the specific value, you need to try many times to find the best setting. It isn't easy for beginners.

Part 3: FAQs about Making A Video Darker on Windows/Mac

Conclusion

Now, you have known how to make a video darker and enhance the video quality through two professional ways. For most people who don't have such high requirements, AnyMP4 Video Converter is the best-recommended software. You can use it to do any basic editing like cropping videos without watermark and adjust the brightness to make a video darker easily. Welcome to leave your comments and user experience below.