schorman13 said:

nightstalkerpoet said:

I’d go:
1080p x264 adding --vbv-maxrate 18000 --vbv-bufsize 15000 --keyint 48 to your command line

Include the 5.1 track and the commentary track, with your hard subs burnt in.

This should give you a fairly high quality general purpose release.

I’m using Cinema Craft HDE this time for the main version. I’m sure I could use x264 for a lower bitrate version.

MikeWW said:

That scene is fine IMO?
Side note, it’s like the only scene that looks better on the BD version due to the close up moving shots of them sitting having lots of artifacting on the grass in Schorman’s version.

I wonder if some kind of fusion of the two could be done. Keep the higher bitrate of the BD, but somehow give it the color grading of the HDTV version.

And this is just fantasizing really, but could, through some kind of partial transparency effect, the extra digital noise and detail of the HDTV be overlaid on the hypothetical color corrected BD footage?

Unfortunately, you can’t really combine the Blu Ray and HDTV versions of Attack of the Clones perfectly. The Blu Ray has just been tweaked too much. You can get a sort of mediocre result using this code in avisynth:

BluRay.Merge(BluRay.MergeChroma(HDTV.Merge(BluRay.Invert()))).Tweak(sat=2.5,coring=false)

Rant time…
The biggest sin of the blu ray is the DNR IMO.
AotC unfiltered actually looks fairly cinematic, but the BD looks like a bad cartoon.
The opening shot of Mace in the Chancellors office is night and day.

Here’s to hoping the 4K version is fixed…