Incredibly dark videos

[Yuhaney]

I do understand what you are explaining and you are correct about the colors.
But try to render a video into lossless format with both of Fraps' settings (without any color correction) and you see what I meant.

Since in 99.9% of cases, people render into lossy format instead of lossless.
And because the lossy format compress' the colors, the final video ends up being dark. That's why you need to do the color correction, that you are suggesting, to correct the colors so that the final video would look normal.

So, here's my current scenario to sum it up:
If you record with lossy RGB setting in Fraps (as I am afraid he might do), then render it once (without color correction) and upload it to YouTube, the color space of video is compressed three times (record>render>upload).
No wonder the video ends up being dark. But, if you set the setting in Fraps into what I said, and do the color correction that you said and render into lossy format, the the video is going to look normal.

However, I haven't recorded in lossy RGB with Fraps for years, so I don't know what color correction setting you need to use to make it look normal so that is why I say to use the lossless RGB.