Long post, so strap in.
The first and most important thing is that GOUT's colors are crap. While the balance is better than the SE, it just doesn't have as dynamic a range of colors as we really need.
The below screenshots below were taken in VirtualDubMod. Both the GOUT and Technicolor images have been resized and/or cropped. That should have no effect on color. (Technicolor above, GOUT below)
You can see that the problem isn't just saturation, but that the GOUT colors just don't cover enough of the spectrum.
So you can saturate those colors as much as you want, it won't get you a match.
The next problem is that each color has a different peak. The worst offender is red. The next screenshot is from GOUT during the opening space battle. I swear no picture levels have been messed with:
See those boxes?
They identify where a 75% intensity value for the primary (and complementary) colors would fall. For TV viewing, you should never adjust colors past these targets. Some high intensity/highly saturated colors are not valid for a TV signal. They will most likely be clipped and cause distortions. Red is especially problematic. TVs tend to actually add a red cast to a signal. So for TV viewed source, you should try to keep the red a bit low.
Ouch. It's really not uncommon for commercial DVDs to exceed those boxes, but I've never seen a color fall outside of the scope's limit.
So what did I do? Okay, keep in mind a few things.
1) I do not have the full DVD at the moment. Peak values were determined based on a few key scenes.
2) The Levels were adjusted. I stuck with g-force's 1.08 gamma adjustment because it brightens the picture slightly without over doing it. I know of no objective adjustment, and PC levels being different tend to make DVD video look darker than how it would look on a TV. Should it be left alone all together? I'm not sure.
3) I disagree with g-force's black level boost. The black and white levels hit the maximums. g-force said 10, I say 3 is just enough to keep the darkest blacks around the same level after the gamma adjustment. (Unless he intentionally crushed the black level to remove fx matte problems. Anyone know for sure?)
4) I have fair color vision at best, so for all I know the people look like oompa loompas and C3PO is green.
5) I went the opposite direction with the hue than g-force. He went -3 I went +5, and then only for red, yellow and green so the skin tones would be closer to the technicolor print.
6) Red is overdriven and clips, green is almost too strong (but I liked it untouched best), Cyan is just about right.
The script would be:
levels(3, 1.08, 255, 0, 255) #Note: Changes in gamma can effect
#color saturation.
converttorgb() #required to use Hue filter
hue(channels="RYG", hue=5) #Adjust hue "CCW" for Red, Yellow, Green
hue(channels="YBM", sat=1.4) #boost Yellow, Blue, Magenta to 140%
hue(channels="R", sat=0.85) #Tough call. 0.9 looks a bit better,
#but is probably still too high.
converttoyuy2() #If you are encoding using CCE
I'm trying to get a hold of the full DVD to be more specific, but this should be a good starting point.
(Avisynth Hue() filter can be found here: http://www.wilbertdijkhof.com/)
Opinions? Criticisms? Suggestions?