As promised, here are the screencaps I mentioned.
Let’s break down the process with an example shot.
Here’s what the movie looked like with just the LUT:
Taking notes from the YouTube video by Mononodes, I began the process by adjusting the offset printer lights. I decided to adjust the RGB values towards green and blue because T2 was never really that red to begin with. I then adjusted the contrast and pivot controls, but the results were barely noticable, so they’re both included in this screencap. Trust me. You won’t see a difference between the two if I turned off the contrast.
After looking at a few scenes on my 1080p HDTV, I noticed that the colors looked rather pale, so I raised the color saturation:
Finally, I worked on the standard color wheels. I wanted to really go all the way with the film look, so I grabbed my flash drive of Puggo Grande’s 16mm Star Wars trilogy and ingested all three movies onto DaVinci Resolve to study what they look like on the scopes. Episode IV had a much bluer color scheme than V and VI, so I decided to adjust the black and white levels accordingly. I tried the redder color cast from Empire and Return onto T2 to see what would happen, and it turned everything into a copper yellow. That finalized my decision. The black levels in Puggo’s Episode IV had a blue tint, so I raised the blue in the lift feature. The white levels, on the other hand, have a green tint, so I lowered the reds and blues in the gain feature. Finally, the midtones were bright on Puggo’s Episode IV, so I raised the gamma a lot. I tested it on my 1080p HDTV again, and the blacks looked way too blue and the whites looked way too green, so I readjusted the color wheels again to make the blue and green tints more subtle. Now the black levels are only faintly blue and the whites are only faintly green now. With that lengthy wall of text done, here’s the LUT with the powergrade:
Now with that example out of the way, let’s go to the main attraction. I’m placing all of the screencaps under a spoiler tag so as to make this post shorter. Plus, there are actual spoiler warnings in these screencaps anyway (although I don’t think that’s gonna be a big issue since almost everyone has seen the movie by now). Enjoy, and let me know what you think!
