Hello again. You know, i`d never noticed the problem with han`s jacket, but now that it`s been mentioned i can see what the problem is with the asteroid sequence- a lack of blue. I`d never noticed han`s jacket because it`s actually that off grey colour throughout the movie, almost but not quite blue, and i found it difficult to put my finger on what exactly was wrong. But it would appear to have been another victim of the `blue cast`. Hmmm. So i`m going to try a few more ideas based on ocp`s comments, but it`ll take a few days. I`ve captured the 1997 editions from laserdisc this morning and am writing the histograms for that, and i`ll be capturing the 1991 vhs widescreen edition tomorrow and performing the same operation. The theory is that i`ll take it back to the 1997 edition which only suffers the blues while the footage stays on Hoth, and then take that corrected footage to go back to 1991. At least that`s the theory.
Another idea is to import Gradation Curves into avisynth and try to eliminate the blue cast that way, and then writing a new histogram for the SE for the colour correction, but i seem to remember not getting many good results with that filter within virtual dub. Again, hmmm. But if anybody else has any suggestions then i`m open to them. The final version NEEDS to be perfect, so these issues have to be sorted.
So it`s going to take a couple of days to get any more results, but i will be reporting back when the experiment is finished. But because i live in England, today is Lost day, since i have to download it of that there intraweb, and i`m going to be spending today making a DVD each for two close personal friends who are more addicted to it than i. If i go to work tomorrow without them, i`ll be turned to stone by their stares. Especially if i then go on to say that i`ve already seen it....
Oh, and INv8r_ZIM, i was in your position a couple of years ago, but Don`t Panic, it`s a lot easier than it seems. I now can`t imagine life without AviSynth, if only for basic cleaning before serving a video into my favoured editor of whichever moment it is (especially on DVD, since it works natively in YV12). Filters can be applied on a frame by frame basis using a command called applyrange(), or by simply cutting the video into segments and combining with the comand alignedsplice(). The Doom9 forums are your friend here though, since a lot of people on there have far more experience than i have.