It’s a little inaccurate to say hue shift though.
When it comes to digital video or films grading . We don’t work in Hue we work in mostly in RGB values, contrast and saturation. It’s very rare to even touch the hue knob as it pushes everything to the right or left. Not helpful at all. (Yes there are ways to specifically alter and shift specific hues but neither the film nor the bluray likely used these techniques)
When it comes to badly regarded films it’s a case of RGB curves and saturation that makes them look so much bluer or greener or redder or magenta. Film prints don’t degrade by shifting hues, but by the RGB particles degrading at different rates.
The Death Star shot you posted. Nothing to do with hue shifts and everything to do with RGB and saturation.
yeah, I just did that quickly and being totally honest i did it from memory. So to do that not such a bad effort as I looked at the other appearance after i had changed the settings.
Either way I understand the principles of trying to get say a consistancy to something with the color, but say for that Binary Sunset shot, the Blu Ray looks really quite wrong but there is also something right about it that say the theatrical print color lacks.I also am starting to think the fake sun was meant to be blue / purple But with all this said, it seems from what you are saying that once you “shift hues” to try and maintain a consistancy you end up in a bit of an unknown wilderness which is true but it is all relative and when it does happen getting something back to a truer result is better than ignoring it and letting the physical film dictate the direction of a color shift.
Fixing a part that does travel off into a different hue I actually find the most satisfying even if it is not 100% spot on the end result will look rematkably better than you may have seen something ever before and this is where in terms of color correcting, it is I find one of the more exciting aspects and you also don’t really get those opportunities to do that sort of thing with newer films because technology is so much better and these things rarely occur today with digital film. That and most of the old films have already been fixed up.
Poita, I may have a look at one of those things you mentioned but I honestly don’t have all that much time on my hands at this time of year until December.