4K restoration on Star Wars — Page 102

NeverarGreat said:

TV’s Frink said:

NeverarGreat said:

TV’s Frink said:

moviefreakedmind said:

EDIT: Then again, I think that this entire forum is overly concerned with color correction. I think I might be in the minority there, though.

I’m with you.

Yeah, what kind of loser obsesses over the exact hue of the Death Star control panel lights?
I mean really, nobody cares!

I care about obvious shit like Hoth being blue or Vader’s lightsaber being pink, but half the time I see before and after pics here and they look nearly identical.

The sky being 0.02% too blue in one shot does not bother me in the slightest.

Yeah, I still don’t get it.

Tyrphanax said:

I’m worried more about the colars.

Lair.

I’ve always said this, but if Disney were smart, they would release a complete De-specialized OOT, as well as a middle ground release with vfx upgrades, but no altered dialogue or scenes. That is undoubtedly the product the public wants the most: the original movie, except corrections for visual effects that have become dated and don’t look real anymore.

Since you have to start with the OOT to get to the other, and the OOT needs to be preserved for historical purposes, it just makes sense to release both along with a new release of the SEs for people who would prefer to watch those.

There’s definitely examples where the coloring on the current masters is off (Frink pretty much listed the two that best come to my mind) but I have never been one to obsess over getting the colors just right. As long as they retain the original essence of the original colors, I don’t care if something’s are slightly off. A red light looks a slight orange? Not a big deal. A creatures blue skin is now green? That’s a big deal! However these are just random generic examples, not specifically pointing out anything. Just the same I’m glad the possibility of a proper OUT restoration might finally be upon us!

Color means a great deal to me, so long as it’s closer to the right and nowhere near the left, I’m fine.

I definitely dont want it to be like the 2011 version either but even if it came out to somewhere between those two images Id be fine!

They should just hire You_Too and Harmy as consultants for the color correction if they can’t figure it out themselves.

It’s not that difficult for paid professionals with the right references.

Alderaan said:

They should just hire You_Too and Harmy as consultants for the color correction.

Or at least get permission to reference and credit their work (can you smell the irony??)

If Disney ever does release the OOT, at the very least I hope they reach out to some of the leading fan preservationists, either officially or privately. It would be the classy thing to do.

Fang Zei said:

… I’m pretty sure we know for a fact that George had the changes cut directly into the o-neg …

I still can’t believe that this happened 😦

Handman said:

Color means a great deal to me, so long as it’s closer to the right and nowhere near the left, I’m fine.

This is the kind of demonstration that fills me with despair, and bittersweet resignation. That the blu-rays are that murky and lifeless is just astounding. (I’ve never seen them, and have no interest in seeing them.)
I don’t know if I’m as fussy about “perfection” as Tyrph, but the treatment of these films to date is entirely intolerable, and I’m fairly confident Humpty Dumpty can never be reassembled… .
[The fourth ellipsis is for extra bittersweetness…]
…
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^^^ Well that is indeed a lot better. The left-side of the comparison has a blacklight-purple smear that is clearly unfair. Your grab is still too saturated for my taste, but maybe it would be acceptable in motion.

NeverarGreat said:

here’s the version from my project:

Now THAT looks great. Definitely the best of the bunch. The current trend of oversaturation always comes across as dim to me, but yours looks like they actually had professional on-set lighting. Doesn’t have the flat yellowness of Yoo-Too’s either.

(She’s so pretty, too!)