I need the shots of the lightsabers in these scenes degrained to match the blu-ray footage, and stabilized so that I don’t have to manually align the SSE frames to the Blu-ray frames. The goal is to rotoscope the SSE sabers into the Blu-ray, since those are so degraded.
As for how much degraining would be required, I’ve gotten good results with Google’s Nik Dfine 2 Photoshop plugin, with degrain settings of 70% contrast strength and 20% color strength:
http://screenshotcomparison.com/comparison/195506
However, I don’t know how to automate this process, so I have to do this frame by frame. If someone had an automated degrain process that produced these results, that would be fantastic.
Specifically, every lightsaber shot in the Falcon except for this first one needs to be done, and the last part of the Obi-wan/Vader battle (after ‘Is the ship alright?’).