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Post #127134

Author
Doctor M
Parent topic
Dr. M's Reinventing The Wheel Edition (PAL to NTSC+) (Released)
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Date created
2-Aug-2005, 11:09 AM
I've noticed a lot of the transfers have been way to red in the past (there's one rebel I tend to call "Flamboyant Guy" (official screenshot #4) because his face is often so red it looks like heavy makeup in most transfers). That's why when I was adjusting I based it on the reddest frame I could find (not this one though).
I did a simple saturation boost and put the brightest red in that clip to 75% of maximum (indicated by the boxes in the graphs below) and let the rest of the colors tag along. Now when I work with the full movie, there might be an even redder point (or other bright color) that I will set using instead. It's good not to exceed that 75% number, since beyond it colors might not be valid on all TV's.
Using ColorTools for VirtualDub set to vectorscope I show the following graphs for the R2/3PO screenshot:

http://home.earthlink.net/~originaldrm/officialvs.jpg
Official^
http://home.earthlink.net/~originaldrm/cc2vs.jpg
Cowclops v2^
http://home.earthlink.net/~originaldrm/moth3r35pvs.jpg
Moth3r's with 35% Saturation Boost^

Now in fairness my screenshot isn't the exact same same frame, but this should give you a good idea that I thought I used retraint.
This frame did NOT have the reddest object in this clip so you can imagine how far up the official one maxes-out at. Cowclops' new edition shows the reddest object to hit 80+% at some point during the same section of film.

As far as moving hues, I could "rotate" 5 degrees clockwise to match the Official DVD or 10+ degrees counter-clockwise for the CC's. That would probably be less desirable. And to move around individual colors isn't going to happen, I have a slight color blindness which prevents me from doing this by eye, and it stands to reason every scene may have different requirements. Though I will give it a look though.

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