To clarify, both the AVI and WMV file
type look fine when played on the
Windows Media Player, but when you
bring the newly created (and
uncompressed) AVI into Premier it
appears darker?
Yes, that’s correct. I recorded 3 separate AVIs this weekend using those settings, and they all had this problem and all had to be re-compressed as WMV files before they would appear properly in Premiere. Let me get you some screenshots …