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Post #1027945

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towne32
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The Original Trilogy restored from 35mm prints (a WIP)
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Date created
3-Jan-2017, 7:58 AM

Poita, I think you mentioned at some point a bit of doubt in some of the color in the darker scenes for the previously scanned Jedi print, as they’re quite blue. In particular, the Ranor scene is bizarrely blue in a way that makes it pretty hard to use for projects like Harmy’s (at least when combining it with other footage). Have you figured out if this is indeed an anomaly in just some of the Jedi prints, or if they all look like this?

Hey poita, I saw a sample of both the UK and the German print of TESB and to be honest the UK print looks quite green throughout.

It might need a bit of mild color correction as you’ve seen it in a fairly raw state. That’s always the case, and the type of discussion suited for final outputs rather than determining the potential of a print. But compared to any other sample, it is brilliant and vibrant. Other prints need to be pushed very far to look normal, and surely there is some amount of color in them that just can’t ever be retrieved (though recent techniques have been very successful).