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Post #317763

Author
Moth3r
Parent topic
Star Wars - The Vintage Edit (* unfinished project *)
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Date created
15-May-2008, 4:29 AM
Paul - I don't know whether or not you ever managed to sucessfully complete the encode for this project. Since I've recently acquired the facility to watch 720p MKVs in HD, I've just re-read this entire thread. A couple of points struck me. Maybe it's too late now, but you could always keep in mind for V2... :-)

After using the colourlike filter and histograms to match the colours in the HD source to the GOUT, you say you made some further manual tweaks. Most people agree that the GOUT needs a little more colour saturation and deeper black levels - are your tweaks along these lines?

Most of the negative criticism of your ESB Vintage Edit, and ocpmovie's Classic Editions, centre around the GOUT/laserdisc video 'standing out' because: a) it wobbles around, compared to the stablized 2004 video, and b) it shows a lot more film grain than the sanitized 2004 image.

For 'a', G-force has developed an AviSynth script to help stabilize the wobble in the GOUT (thread HERE). Maybe this would help.

I had an idea to deal with 'b' - this might seem nuts, but how about adding more grain to the 2004 HD source? (There is a discussion on the GOUT grain issue HERE.)

You could just use fake grain, however someone above mentioned Close Encounters. I've not seen it, but from reading reviews apparently the Blu-ray release shows an excellent transfer complete with authentic '70s film grain. In theory, if you could obtain a rip of the blu-ray (to be deleted after use, of course) you could extract the grain from it (by using AviSynth's 'subtract' to get the difference between the original and a de-grained image - i.e. the grain itself) then overlay this onto your HD source. Voila - Authentic '70s grain added back in to Star Wars HD!

Edit: Just wanted to add that, like everyone else who's posted, I'm keen to see this project completed.