After a rough last couple of weeks, I’ve been slowly inching my way back to episode I v2.

I mentioned a few days ago about my idea to throw in an alternate color grading version of the film, but after playing around with the nodes in Resolve, I’ve changed my mind. I found that by using three corrector nodes and connecting them to a combiner node, I could split the corrector nodes into separate color channels of red, green, and blue. This gives me full control over the colors and I can play around with the color wheels and dials to my heart’s content. It’s time-consuming, and I’m still at work on the droid control ship action sequence, but I like the results so far. It’s back to blue again, but at least it looks more professional. The only thing I’m worried about is consistency between shots. However, I’ve found that by keeping my hands off of the sat and hue dials, I’ve been able to keep the shots looking pretty well matched up.

I’m sure someone will suggest that I right-click the clips and do a color match, but I already tried that several times and for whatever reason, Resolve crashes. So, I have to match up everything manually. This is part of the reason why I think the color grade is gonna take a while. I’m confident the results will be worth it, but have some patience. Getting things right takes some time.

In other news, I haven’t installed my microphone to my computer, so I still have yet to set things up for the audio commentary. I’m getting to it, though.

So that’s where I am on v2 for now. I’ll continue updating my progress as things develop.