Yeah, it should definitely be green but as you can see it changes tint even between these shots and it could be because of the bluer lighting of that shot.

Oh, and BTW, since I'd really like to avoid making yet another version after v2.0 (unless of course a considerably better source appears - but then a considerably better source would basically yield the whole DeEd unnecessary ;-)  ) quality control will be an important part of the project. A that's where you guys come in. I decided that as I'm progressing though the edit, I will post a separate workprint for every half an hour of the film when it's finished, which I'd like some volunteers to check. And then when the editing is finished, I'll post a second WP of the whole film, which will be at a higher bitrate - (probably a 4,36 GB 720p mkv) with pitch corrected audio (it has to stay 25fps, so that I can get relevant timecode based feedback) in order to make it a worthy watching experience to  give it a broader appeal, but not quite a worthy replacement of the final version.

Anyway, here's my latest render of the first part of the sabre duel. I think it's pretty good now:

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=DE0QP7NH

It should be pretty much the quality of the DVD9 AVCHD (the bitrate's slightly higher than that but that is to account for the GOUT in the upper left corner and the 04SE in the upper right corner).

hey harmy,

i couldn't help but notice the lightsabers changing

would using v1.0s lightsabers be an option?

i appreciate your hard work and i probably have no idea how much work that took but those changing sabers really stick out to me.

Absolutely not an option, sorry. This whole exercise of re-doing the lightsabres (which by a rough estimate took something over 100 hrs) was not to make the light sabers look better than in v1.0 (where I used the scene corrected by Adywan, so the sabers looked good but still obviously digitally recomped)but to make them look more like in the original. And that goal was IM(not-so-H)O achieved.

And I think the colours are quite consistent - sure they're not 100% consistent but all info indicates that the colours were by no means consistent in the original either.

And also, another not-so-minor factor: I f*cking love the look of the v2.0 lightsabres. I already watched that clip I posted like 20 times!

Just wanted to add that I drooled on myself.  That is all.

You're very welcome :-)

Oh and here's the second part of the duel:

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=HZ5SG5QO

Looks great Harmy!  well done.

New sabers look really great, Harmy. 'Preciate all your hard work on this project.

Yeah. No problem, You_Too, I'm glad you post these :-) And seeing it like that, I think I need to dial it back a bit on that Vader shot. I first tried to just boost saturation a bit but due to the nature of You_Too's correction, this creates some artefacts, where some parts get boosted more than others, making the border between them rather jagged, but then I tried this (dialling back reds in shadows and increasing them by about the same amount in highlights) and I think it works really nicely, better actually than the saturation increase. But it does need to be applied with caution.

I didn't find that function in Premiere but I don't really need it anymore.

What's interesting though, is that I found out that those artefacts I mentioned are only there when I boost the saturation in Premiere and they probably have nothing to do with the way you corrected it because it happens with other videos as well. Sorry about that.

WOW. YOU FIXED IT! My old laptop can barely even play those clips, but the lightsabres look GREAT! Nice job Harmy!

Thanks for letting me know. I'll see what I can do about it.

@Slynger: Yes, there is a v2.0 planned for ESB and Jedi as well. There's a lot to do on ESB, I think it will actually be a larger project than SW v2.0; eg. many more of those zoomed in cockpit shots were recently discovered. Also, while I'll probably be keeping the recomposited shots for Falcon's cloud city approach, I'd like to recolour the ship to look more like in the original.

And while there's almost nothing I want to change on Jedi, I am now using better software, which will enable me to render it in better quality with less compression, so that alone makes it worth redoing.