Well, all I know is, that on the IB print scan, there's no trace of those specular highlights in this shot.

Harmy, I still don't know your goals 100%, so please bear with me.

Did you always plan to leave in the new wipes done by Pacific Titles? If not, then was something holding you back from recreating the old wipes; e.g., picture quality?

I'm not sure what exactly you mean. I always said I'd leave the wipes, because they don't really change anything and recreating them faithfully would require an original source, which at this point would mean the GOUT and from what I can tell, there isn't really any significant drop in quality during wipes on the IB print, except maybe a little more dirt, which would get cleaned up in a digital restoration anyway.

@poita: The most current version to date is v2.0 but v 2.1 will be coming out soon, although I'd advice those who wanted to use it as x-mas presents to reconsider - it's still the plan to have it out before x-mas but I'm not 100% sure I'll be able to hold to it - I have a lot of schoolwork to do before the end of semester, so I'm finding it hard to find the time to work on this.

Harmy said:

I'm not sure what exactly you mean. I always said I'd leave the wipes, because they don't really change anything and recreating them faithfully would require an original source, which at this point would mean the GOUT and from what I can tell, there isn't really any significant drop in quality during wipes on the IB print, except maybe a little more dirt, which would get cleaned up in a digital restoration anyway.

You answered my question. :-) Thanks!

Also, Harmy, have you considered using the following software? http://grubbasoftware.com/index.html

That's an interesting piece of software but After Effects already generates filmgrain very faithfully. It even has different presets that simulate the most common kinds of film stock.

Check this out:

Harmy said:

That's an interesting piece of software but After Effects already generates filmgrain very faithfully. It even has different presets that simulate the most common kinds of film stock.

That's awesome! I didn't know that...

Which version of AE are you using?

Currently CS5.5, but the older versions could do it as well.

Harmy said:

 

I'd advice those who wanted to use it as x-mas presents to reconsider - it's still the plan to have it out before x-mas but I'm not 100% sure I'll be able to hold to it - I have a lot of schoolwork to do before the end of semester, so I'm finding it hard to find the time to work on this.

Thanks for the heads up! It's still gonna be gifted to several people... even if Christmas comes a little late!

Here's another thingy for you guys to check out:

http://uloz.to/xNSv6PJ/robot-v2-1-new-sample-mp4

I've warred with this shot for like ever and I've redone it at least six time and it's still not 100% but it's pretty damn close :-)

It's actually kind of funny that this seemingly not as invasive change gave me such hell to undo but when you look at the shot, it was probably shot with a handheld camera, so there's constant minute camera movement and there are a lot of things constantly moving through the frame. Plus it has a lot of gate weave on the GOUT DVD.

Looks great, Harmy.

I honestly never noticed any of that, but now that I'll be looking for it, it won't be there!

Here's another little peak at v2.1. I'm hoping I might be able to do the same with Obi-Wan's sabre but I can't be sure until I try and I'm too tired to do it now.