Star Wars Episode IX: The Eyepainter Fanedit (Released) — Page 2

I’d say there’s a bit too much blue, especially in the highlights. The reds look a bit purple/pink and the greens are a bit teal. It is striking though, and some shots look a lot nicer.

NeverarGreat said:

I’d say there’s a bit too much blue, especially in the highlights. The reds look a bit purple/pink and the greens are a bit teal. It is striking though, and some shots look a lot nicer.

A lot of that is a consequence of changing the grading to blue, but I’ll see if I can lower it a bit. Don’t expect a gigantic change, but I’ll give it a try.

I have a bad feeling about this.

Okay, I’ve done what I could to try and fix the issues NeverarGreat brought up. After the work I did on the color grading for my TLJ edit, I wanted to be more conservative with the blue film look for IX. I’m bringing this up now, because as you’ll soon see, my tweaking has made the grade even bluer.

Here’s a shot from the previous grade:

The first thing I did was lower the reds. This made the purple/pink less visible, but it also brought back my biggest nemesis in the grading of this film: The skin tones. They didn’t look red enough anymore. They also made things more teal, which makes it worse. So, in order to fix this, I had to reduce the greens a bit so that the blues could come back. Only the blues remained unchanged. The result is this:

I’m not sure if this is an improvement, or a disaster. On the one hand, I like the increase in blue. On the other hand, I think that same increase might actually be worse. In fact, I think the teal issue is still a problem. It’s hard to make a good judgment call because the skin tones are sensitive to the blue grading I’m giving it. If I make it too blue, the purple tint issue that NeverarGreat is talking about becomes a huge problem. But if I don’t make it blue enough, the skin tones don’t look red, and it loses its film-like quality. Finding the right balance has been quite a difficulty for this grade. It’s also the reason why I haven’t updated as quickly as I did before with VII and VIII. I have to be very sure that nothing looks too off.

My hope is that the increase in blue, oddly enough, fixes the highlight issues and gives the grade an improvement. But I need a second opinion for this one. You may find the screencaps in the spoiler tag below:

Here are some more screencaps. The second half of the film had more close-ups which show the differences in the skintones, as well as more Exegol. As usual, they’re down in the spoiler tag below:

The first ones are definitely better in my opinion.

I agree. I’ll keep it open just in case, but if I don’t get a good defense for the second one, I’ll stick with what I already did before, even if NeverarGreat is right about its flaws and shortcomings.

Alright. I’ve exported the file. Gonna test it out.

Found some issues with the file. Gonna work on correcting them!

Issues are corrected. File looks right on my TV. I think testing is done! Here are my specs for Episode IX:

Lossless 1080p
Codec: H.264 - MPEG-4 AVC (Part 10)
Resolution: 1920x804
Frame Rate: 23.976fps
Audio: AAC 5.1 surround and 2.0 stereo
File Size: 11.5gb
Running Time: 1:42:41

Lossy 720p
Codec: H.264 - MPEG-4 AVC (Part 10)
Resolution: 1280x720
Frame Rate: 23.976fps
Audio: AAC 5.1 surround and 2.0 stereo
File Size: 4.37gb
Running Time: 1:42:41

Thank you to all who have contributed to this edit, and to originaltrilogy.com! It’s been an honor editing these films.

I’ve released VII and VIII, and now it’s time to start releasing Episode IX! I should note that I struggled to get the links for Episode VIII last night. It might be a sign that I’ll get thrown into time out while uploading Episode IX. Just putting that out there in case releasing this takes longer than expected. As with the previous two, be patient. I’ll get it released sooner or later.

Files have been released! Sending PM’s now.