ANH scripts
Same as before- extract the folder to your C drive, so you have a root of "C:/ANH/". You now need to either overwrite the d2v file, or change the file and path in ANHSEvideo.avs to an already generated d2v.
What can i say? The 1985 histograms are now complete, and come in either "1985" or "1985,2" flavours. Both are crap. "1985" is the histograms from the original capture settings, "1985,2" are from a new video which uses a different white balance on capture. The first one is too red, the second too blue. The histograms i generated over the past week were too green. Frustrating.
As for the others, well, all have flaws- too pink, too green, too light. I wasn`t expecting any consistency, and wasn`t expecting any one script to solve most of the film`s problems, a la ESB (where you can select one script and then only have to correct a few scenes), but it looks like on this one you`re gonna need to switch between up to four versions at a time to get a consistent result.
There is a new script and a couple of plugins thrown in. "Whitebalance" uses the whitebalance filter stored in the plugin directory (this is called from script), and is remarkably effective. Any scene that comes after Tantive IV just looks wonderful with this script. The Tantive IV scenes have extra white balance supplied with apply range within the script, but i think this could be better handled by a more scene by scene use of the filter, applying different whitebalances in shorter bursts. Here`s how it looks so far:
avisource("C:\ANH\ANHSEvideo.avs")
loadplugin("C:\ANH\Plugins\WhiteBalance.dll")
whitebalance(r1=171,g1=179,b1=186)
applyrange(0,12675,"whitebalance",191,187,186)
applyrange(0,12675,"whitebalance",152,141,152)
converttoRGB32()
The range refers to the beginning of the movie till just after the stardestroyer fly over of tatooine, just before the cut to R2 and C3PO. Because i just want to get something posted "WhiteBalance", the script, isn`t yet finished.
So, more experimentation to be done, i`m currently rendering yet another set of full screen histo`s which should at least fix the overbright problem of 1985,2 and maybe tone down the blue, but for now here are the scripts and histograms so that you can see what each technique or histogram set does. I`m also going to write a script this afternoon that incorporates VD_Hue along with white balance, and this time really will have that posted tomorrow. Oh, and just out of interest, i`m going to rip TPM to my drive and see what the histograms do to that, and will post some piccies later. Enjoy!