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Post #365169

Author
adywan
Parent topic
Wookie Groomer's 1080p Star Wars Saga project (Released)
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Date created
12-Jun-2009, 2:09 PM

Well i've just downloaded the triscreen sample that was posted. a 2GBapprox sample? bit of overkill on this because a lower bitrate could easily have been used for this and knocked it down to a couple of hundred MB instead because this doesn't show the quality of the encode.

i was actually a bit surprised by the colour correction. I would love to know what method of colour correction you used WG. was it a script? some shots look good indeed while others have me puzzled. his shot for instance , there is no colour change at all. in fact the WG version has a lower white level causing the image to be slightly darker ( which i noticed in the other scenes too)

 

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As you can see the 2004 & WG have the almost the same colouring, with WG white level being lower, but WG red saturation is much higher and Landos shirt now has green tinting to it where the cyan hue has been shifted towards green.

Now i know just how messed up the colours were in the 2004 transfer. the main problem is the blue tinting. well thats not entirely true. he picture has more of a cyan tint with the blue hues being shifted too much towards cyan. the main problem when you try to eliminate the tint is that you destroy the colouring of the sky and blues that need to be there. It is impossible to colour correct these movies by applying a uniform colour correction or by using a script. it has to be done shot by shot and by using masks for certain areas. Some shots in the 2004 look almost perfect while others are just unbelievable bad. it even changes between shots. one example is in the Hoth command centre when Han goes back for Leia. just watch the shot of 3PO as the explosion happens behind him. the picture is totally green. Also in most shots 3PO is a little too yellow. which brings me to my next snapshot. the colour correction has shifted 3PO's colour in some shots giving him a greenish tint

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here is some more snapshots;

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