TV's Frink said:

ww12345 said:

Because he really wants that bonus disc. Duh.

:)

I made it for him already.  Wh1ere should I post about it?

Pleas check your private massages! :)

Harmy said:

Well, apparently, Encore doesn't support adding more than 8 audio tracks, so I'm gonna have to use something else to author the BD - I think I'll try MultiAVCHD but I find it a bit confusing.

I found this comparison page which says that Movie Studio 12 can support 20 audio tracks, hopefully that applies to the bundled DVD Architect Studio as well.

http://www.sonycreativesoftware.com/moviestudiope/compare

Just re-watched the featurette Harmy did about the sources, which is shockingly good, and was wondering if the You_Too preliminary color corrected source was ever made available. Anyone know? It would do nicely if I ever wanted to put together a project of sorts for ANH or the other two.

I do still have that script but it's way outdated. I mean, if I were to re-do it today I might have tried to find some kind of better solution to the oversaturated magenta parts. (like laser flashes)

And I also remember I did two versions for Harmy, one for the whole film and one for only the Death Star battle where I removed the dark blue in the shadow detail.

Memorex said:

May be the time then to start over with 2.5 again, if the script is already outdated before the release..  ;) 

You_Too said:

I do still have that script but it's way outdated. I mean, if I were to re-do it today I might have tried to find some kind of better solution to the oversaturated magenta parts. (like laser flashes)

And I also remember I did two versions for Harmy, one for the whole film and one for only the Death Star battle where I removed the dark blue in the shadow detail.

I'm thinking that there should be a new version of Despecialized at some point, because some scenes could definitely stand another attempt. I've figured out how to neutralize most of the pink flashes and dark blue bleeding with a single set of global settings, and I'm pretty sure it will work with the Blu-ray as well.

Compared to the Senator technicolor print, Despecialized has a ways to go in my opinion.

See my thread on correcting the DVD for more info about my ideas about solving these issues.

But Despecialized 2.5 overall is so much better than the Blu-ray, it needs to be seen in whatever case.

That Senator cap looks terrible, there is barely any detail on the buildings in the background, the whites are far too blown out.

You should know that the "Senator cap" is actually a photograph of the screen when the film was shown at, well, the "Senator Theatre". It's not a screencapture from any preservation. More info here: http://savestarwars.com/technicoloribscreening.html

Nope, I still need the GOUT caps of the ESB and ROTJ credits. Or can I use Harmy's 1.0s of those?

Just wasn't sure if those were the GOUT credits or already some re-creations by Harmy.

Just looked at them, and yeah, GOUT upscales.

Gogogadget said:

That Senator cap looks terrible, there is barely any detail on the buildings in the background, the whites are far too blown out.

The Senator photos are almost certainly too bright most of the time. However I'd say they are far closer in luminosity to the original than the DVD/Blu-ray, and even the GOUT. My purpose was to show that some of the shots in Despecialized are still too dark, with highlights that are still too green. Take a look at the cup in the foreground - in other shots, that cup is white and even blue, as well as in the Senator photo. But as far as anyone knows, the cup is supposed to be white:

As long as it's green, the correction isn't entirely correct. And it is a small detail, but color correction demands attention to such details, for they often lead to uncovering systemic issues, such as the green highlights or the blue and pink tones throughout the movie. I believe that addressing these on a global basis is the best way to deal with the problem, for they are often global changes and aren't limited to a single shot or scene.

NeverarGreat said:

As long as it's green, the correction isn't entirely correct. And it is a small detail, but color correction demands attention to such details, for they often lead to uncovering systemic issues, such as the green highlights or the blue and pink tones throughout the movie. I believe that addressing these on a global basis is the best way to deal with the problem, for they are often global changes and aren't limited to a single shot or scene.

Your global color correction looks great, but props are not really a good color reference, as the finished colors of a film often look far different from those in real life.