Originally Posted by
Shassira
When visualizing media, specialy gameplay videos, one has to take into account things like gamma correction layers.
Your monitor itself may or may not be applying a gamma curve to the colors (I have set mine so that I see more contrast, for example) and the game may even be applying its own form of color correction. Further down the line, when recorded, the game's output is recorded with the final image generated by the software, but not the one generated by the monitor.
So basicly, your monitor can be correcting an output from a game that's already internaly corrected. By correction I just mean applying a non linear function to color distribution, btw. The recording software picks the game's output, but not the monitor's.
However, the video playback software may itself be applying another layer of gamma correction. It's rather common I'd say to see dark imagery on game recordings, mostly due to these possible multiple layers of color correction.
If I record TERA and play it back, it looks much darker.