Alright, I’m gonna be completely honest now that I’ve watched a bit of it and provide some constructive criticizm:
You should’ve taken the final 4K77 and applied the DNR without the excessive sharpening.
Not much would’ve been needed to remove the pink if you think it’s too much (you would only have needed to balance the white point) and it should’ve been done reel by reel, not shot by shot since that requires extreme care and consistency.
The DNR release is very, very inconsistent in its color from shot to shot and some shots look a lot cleaner in the original. R2D2 in the canyon is oversaturated and has purple shadows, as if you went back before the color correction done to your first release, and that’s just one example.
Of course I’m going to present proof for this. Here are two frames that appear right after each other, original on top and DNR on bottom:
To prove how consistent the original is compared to the DNR version, I took a patch of sand from both frames in photoshop and put them beside each other, the sand being a little brighter in the first frame so I lowered the exposure a little bit to make it match the sand from the 2nd frame. I used the same exposure setting on the same sand from the DNR version. Here they are as one picture, sand from frame 1 and 2 from the original on top and the same from the DNR version on bottom:
As you can probably see, the inconsistency in the DNR version is very visible here.
This is what the shots would’ve looked like if you took the original and removed the pink and brightened them the same way without crushing the whites as much:
Is there any chance we could get a proper DNR version in the future? Or that we could learn how to render one ourselves? I’d really wish to get rid of the print grain since it’s not the original negative grain anyway, but without the inconsistency in color. The colors are amazing in the first 4K77 release and wouldn’t need much tweaking if one wanted them to be a little more balanced. If you used avisynth for DNR I’d love to know the settings. When I’ve tried it in avisynth in the past, DNR just makes fast moving scenes look smudged so to speak.