Originally posted by: tellan
adywan, depending on what you're using, when I was creating the avi's from the m2v files of the dvd for each shot of the film, i ran a filter called whitebalance which you use in virtualdub and set it to 235, 235, 235 for colour values. it does a good baseline job of getting a natural white which you can then use as a baseline reference to correct in vegas etc.

Thanks Tellan. I used the white balance filter in Virtualdub as a starter. i love that filter and use it all the time. I've managed to get a nice colour balance for the most part of the film so far. But some shots are just way messed up. For example if you look towards the end of the garage scene, just after luke see's the hologram, have a look at the doorway in the background. What once was white now has a strange almost turqoise glow to it in some shots, but not in others. The only way to get rid of this would be to create a matte and colour correct that section independant to the rest. I think the real reason behing the blue cast to the movies is because it does help mask some of these really bad imperfections.

I'm still really torn what to do with the whole Jabba scene. I just hat the part where han steps over his tail. I've been racking my brains what to do to make this scene work and even at one point considered turning Jabba into a hologram and using the original puppet from jedi and han can walk around him once again, but i'm really at a loss weather to keep this scene in or not.

I'm not sure if i mentioned it before but everyone that has posted in this thread will be having their names included in the end credits. I can't thanks everyone enough for all your input.