Light power does not match with video (Blender 3.0 difference?)

[michael57]

This has been bothering me since starting this course using blender 3.0, but when I place the point light or any light really, it always is to dim or dark, causing me to up the wattage to an insane degree to have it match what I see on the screen.

Here’s what I get when I place the light near the exact location and brightness in the video:
The placement
The settings:

The result:

Same result but I jacked up the wattage on the point light to 900 W:

This is making me go insane and I don’t know why it’s behaving like this! I have the Extra Lights – Photometric Lighting Addon installed. is that screwing it up? (setting exposure doesn’t seem to help ether.)

Any suggestions on what is going on will be great!

[Jonathan Lampel]

I’m not sure if it’s every light in the video, but after going back through it I noticed that I have nodes enabled for some of them and the emission strength is set pretty high: 

Edit: Actually, after checking the file itself I noticed that the exposure is set to 5 and nodes are off at the start. It still appears the same in 3.0.

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