[Michael Faber]

[David VanCura] ”
After some hours of messing with this I checked my pc’s video card settings. I have the force ware driver release 169.21 . Turns out if you have a newer Nvida video card (I dont know about ATI cards software, but check this it may have a similar setting), go to nvidia control panel display settings menu, at the bottom on left colum, there is a setting for “color” for tv-and video display. I turned that off becuse it was over contrasting and brightening the output for all the video on my computer-even regular movies. As soon as I did this the video in windows media and quicktime exports looked fine from Adobe Premiere CS3. I also copied the quicktime and windows media exports to my laptop and they looked ok on there. Hopefully this might help some people. If I find out anything else with future video projects I will post.”

Excelling Job man! Bravo! This is the answer to my prayers. Worked like a charm and saved alot of grief before circulating dark noob-like compressions. Thanks!