Sail Barge and The Emperor’s Arrival Comparison Video:
This is how the colour grading for ROTJ:R is getting on. This really does show just how bad the grading of the official Blu-Ray for this film is. It goes from having magenta tint/ over saturated reds to a heavy blue/ cyan cast that, in the opening shot of the TIE’s approaching the Death Star, has completely wiped out any of the other colours that should be there. The swicthes to oversaturated blues and a heavy cyan tint that makes the stormtroopers etc no longer their true white colour. Cyan Scoutroopers?
I am late to the party, but I have to say, it looks good. I have a few unimportant nitpicks to make though.
In the video, there are quite a few close ups to the alien faces. While normally it is not all that noticeable, close ups make it too obvious they are just rubber masks. They look too static and fake. Especially the brown masked dude behind Luke near the beginning of the video and the little animal thing that messes with C-3PO’s eye. It would be a significant improvement if they could at least blink. It would look a lot nicer and much more realistic. Same applies to Jabba the Hutt, but to a lesser extent. (It would have been nice and fluid if he could at least close his eyes fully while/after he dies.)
Secondly, the line Han Solo speaks while he is freeing Chewbacca from his restraints (He says “Boba Fett?” twice) is clearly (and quite obviously) a copy&paste repetition. (At least sound wise) He doesn’t even need to say it twice. He could say something like “What? Boba Fett? Where?” and it would flow and sound much better.
Lastly, could you remove and/or replace the The Wilhelm scream sound effect? It wasn’t a problem back then, but at this point it is so overused that it only cheapens the entire movie. It is a funny sound, don’t get me wrong, but I suppose it is supposed to be a less funny and more of a heroic moment. At least it is supposed to be. It is working against the movie.
One more minor nitpick, in the last part of the video, during Vader and Emperor’s walk, his face is too bright and his lips are too pink in your version. Color of his face almost appears normal (regular flesh colored), which is the opposite of what it is supposed to look like.
They are just that, nitpicks and nothing more. They are not essential suggestions in any way. I just felt like mentioning.