It depends on what post work you want to do. If you are looking to edit your video from DFX together with sound you need a video program like Vegas or Premiere Pro.
For the darkness, it depends on where it is coming from. Is it bright until viewed on a regular TV or is it dark on the computer monitor? Are the original stills bright? IT the stills are good and the playback in Vegas looks good, it must be a compression or encoding problem. If you can output to a .mov from Vegas, try a Quicktime file using the animation codec.
Because this is such a good deal I'll mention it. A company called ADS sells an A/V box for firewire. It lets you import and export digital and analog video and preview your work on a standard TV. They have a package called the Pyro A/V Link Pro that included the box, Premiere Pro (NLE), Encore (DVD authoring), and Audition (like Acid on steroids). Safe Harbors sells it for $550. That is about $1800 worth of software and hardware. I bought mine about a month or so ago and it is well worth it.
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