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ROTJ 2011 Blu-Ray Color Correction And Restoration (RELEASED).

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ORIGINAL POST: ROTJ has one of the worst grades on Blu-ray, It has this weird oversaturated blue tint, And has Desaturated reds, Which themselves look purple-like. and don’t get me started with the dreaded magenta overcast which is hard to get rid of. So I’ve gone ahead and color-corrected the film Anyway-style I’ve used the available scenes/pictures as reference. After this is done (few days) I will have a complete set of Adywan-style color-corrected Blu-rays. which I will use for my preservation and edits.

Things to note:
If colors look too blue or too grey that’s how they are SUPPOSED to look, I didn’t recolor or desaturate anything as that is destructive to the film.
Also, the crawl is in Spanish, because that’s the best master I could find.

2024 UPDATE:
Hey everyone, so I’ve recently rekindled my fascination for ROTJ, so I’ve decided to Re-up this project and do an all-new color correction.

Main Differences from Old Correction:
Final Render will be a full-quality file (20 GB or thereabouts) and this time it’ll be sourced from the original Blu-ray, which gives me an advantage at removing the crappy over-exposed highlights this film has, Which turned out to be kind of simple to do:


Thanks to the Blu-ray’s high bit-rate, I was able to get a good amount of detail back that was lost in the highlights. couldn’t do much about the shadows though. Anyways here’s a clip:
Comp: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1p1P73ZifNzEwtutHbJ8rVxAzpxmjhNeg/view?usp=sharing
Just the Color Grade: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1BL-sieK703sOTsw8ufNVApsi7nsWPowS/view?usp=sharing
I will also be replacing out-of-focus shots with the 2019 4k Blu-ray.

Still have a few things to do, and a few kinks to iron out, but overall it’s almost done.
expect a release next week or thereabouts.
also, any thoughts on the grade would be very much appreciated.

Release details:
File Size: 50GB.
1080x1920
File host: Google Drive. please message me for the link(s) (PM ONLY)

Smaller encode:
File size: 15GB
1080x1920
File host: Mega, please message me for the link(s) (PM ONLY)

-TGWNN

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This sounds promising already just from the title.

Project creator and film enthusiast.

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Almost done? Wow, that was quick I didn’t now you could color grade that fast. Unless you’re talking about a specific shot to show us pictures and are know where near done.

“No one is born ugly, we just live in a judgmental society.”- Kim Namjoon

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Grand Master_ Luke Flywalker said:

Almost done? Wow, that was quick I didn’t now you could color grade that fast. Unless you’re talking about a specific shot to show us pictures and are know where near done.

No, I mean The whole movie. What I did is I added a correction to the whole film, and now I am going shot by shot, to fix any defects. when I get home I will post a video

-TGWNN

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Alright, sounds great. I have to admit I never saw the in-corrections in color till people compared it to other versions.

“No one is born ugly, we just live in a judgmental society.”- Kim Namjoon

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I like it, especially the picture of Luke in the throne room. I like how it gives off a sort of 70’s/80’s vibe.

“No one is born ugly, we just live in a judgmental society.”- Kim Namjoon

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should probably edit the main post to add that spanish crawl reason instead of “the crawl is in Spanish for some reason”

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Looks more natural now. Awesome.

One day we will have properly restored versions of the Original Unaltered Trilogy (OUT); or 1977, 1980, 1983 Theatrical released versions (Like 4K77,4K80 and 4K83); including Prequels. So that future generations can enjoy these historic films that changed cinema forever.

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Yea I noticed the Avatar/profile pic. But none of us own the rights to the pic. Lol. I’ve been on this site on and off for a long time now the pic is actually a still frame from a GIF. When the site got a major update.

But the colors of this edit look awesome. Keep up the cool work.

One day we will have properly restored versions of the Original Unaltered Trilogy (OUT); or 1977, 1980, 1983 Theatrical released versions (Like 4K77,4K80 and 4K83); including Prequels. So that future generations can enjoy these historic films that changed cinema forever.

Yoda: Try not, do or do not, there is no try.

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I have a question. I am doing a Star Wars marathon in a few days and was looking at my files when I realized this one was missing. I went to your PM to try and download it again, but it says the file was removed. It said the same thing on the rough cut of the ANH Devastator Edition. What happened?

“No one is born ugly, we just live in a judgmental society.”- Kim Namjoon

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2024 UPDATE:
Hey everyone, so I’ve recently rekindled my fascination for ROTJ, so I’ve decided to Re-up this project and do an all-new color correction.

Main Differences from Old Correction:
Final Render will be a full-quality file (20 GB or thereabouts) and this time it’ll be sourced from the original Blu-ray, which gives me an advantage at removing the crappy over-exposed highlights this film has, Which turned out to be kind of simple to do:


Thanks to the Blu-ray’s high bit-rate, I was able to get a good amount of detail back that was lost in the highlights. couldn’t do much about the shadows though. Anyways here’s a clip:
Comp: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1p1P73ZifNzEwtutHbJ8rVxAzpxmjhNeg/view?usp=sharing
Just the Color Grade: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1BL-sieK703sOTsw8ufNVApsi7nsWPowS/view?usp=sharing
I will also be replacing out-of-focus shots with the 2019 4k Blu-ray.

Still have a few things to do, and a few kinks to iron out, but overall it’s almost done.
expect a release next week or thereabouts.
also, any thoughts on the grade would be very much appreciated.

-TGWNN

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What will be the audio mix of this preservation?

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NEW UPDATE
I’ve decided to replace the out of focus shots with the 4k blu-ray, color corrected to match.
So it probably wont be out till late next week.
any suggestions would be helpful.

-TGWNN

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Alright It’s done and uploaded to google drive.
Its about 50gb so if you want it please shoot me a pm.
I might encode a smaller file later though, if people want that.

EDIT:
Release details:
File Size: 50GB.
1080x1920
File host: Google Drive. please message me for the link(s) (PM ONLY)

Smaller encode:
File size: 15GB
1080x1920
File host: Mega, please message me for the link(s) (PM ONLY)

-TGWNN

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That guy with no name said:

Alright It’s done and uploaded to google drive.
Its about 50gb so if you want it please shoot me a pm.
I might encode a smaller file later though, if people want that.

EDIT:
Release details:
File Size: 50GB.
1080x1920
File host: Google Drive. please message me for the link(s) (PM ONLY)

Smaller encode:
File size: 15GB
1080x1920
File host: Mega, please message me for the link(s) (PM ONLY)