-The crawl now pans down smoothly to Coruscant. (the two clips are completely joined together). This means that the film is done all the way until the beginning of the Dooku discussion on Coruscant, aside from "20th century fox", "Lucasfilm Ltd." and "A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away...", which I will be restoring to the original cards.
-The color correction for the balcony scene is finally done. That was very painstaking work- I had to use all kinds of color correction, brightness/contrast, black and white mix, blue and green chroma key combos...you name it. I had to remove chroma key on close shots of Padme, because it made her look grainy and also somewhat ugly, wheras it looked perfect and sinister for Anakin. But absence of chroma key means large changes elsewhere to get the colors consistent.
I'd bore you by going into every little detail, but the short of it is that although it's done and it looks great, this was a major PAIN, getting it to look right. It took far longer than I expected.
Sound mix for this scene will be a piece of cake, however, once I get Anakin's dialogue...
-I'm still trying to record Anakin's dialogue for this scene. "Padme...I love you. I've loved you ever since I first saw you all those years ago. I was afraid to tell you before...but it's true." This just comes off in such a corny, flat way if it isn't done properly. All of my previous takes of that went into the recycle bin, and I'm still trying to get it right.
On a positive note, I can't remember whose suggestion this was, but the binary sunset shows up in this film- in a very nice way. More on that later.
Thanks!