Well, it has taken a year of experimentation to find the right settings to color correct A New Hope. I can’t say that I am 100% finished, no project like this ever is, but I think I can say that I am at the point of endless tweaking and the major work is done. The conclusion I have come to is that when they scanned A New Hope for the DVD release (and HD broadcasts and later blu-ray release) that they pretty much ignored the 1977 and 1997 color timing. They seem to have just scanned the negative and then taken a guess at color timing. The majority of the scenes are within a small tweak of each other, but some scenes are way off. Way way way off. Lots of mistakes were made and a lot of my work is trying to fix them. Along the way this has gone from being a pure preservation and color correction to a restoration. At the moment I have stopped with fixing the film to the point of the 1997 SE (the content is a mix of mostly blu-ray with some HD broadcast of the DVD version). Lucas seemed to have skipped having a continuity editor for the SE and subsequent versions. This film is a royal mess, probably because the negative is a total mess. Not only is it a mix of 1977 original elements, but the 1997 recompositions and changes and the later DVD and BR changes. There is little consistency. And that has been my goal, to bring this film (and all the others but this one mainly) to a watchable state from the total mess found on the blu-ray. For the first time I watched what I had done and found it quite acceptable. Samples to follow when I figure out the best way to show it.