zombie84 said:

The whole film is way off. The shot-by-shot colouring is pretty fucked, especially since it seems that many of the problems were ones the 2004 set created in the first place. In terms of colour information, usually its all there which is good, but the colours have been boosted and manipulated in unnatural ways that often makes them look ugly (i.e. skin tones, colour casts, popping, inconsistent colours, desaturation, oversaturation). In some ways its easier than the GOUT because the colour is all there you just have to tweak each shot, but that shot-by-shot manipulation is a lot more work than the GOUT which mainly just requires a gamma and saturation boost. If you look at Mike Verta's page on CC'ing the 2004 version you can see it is a lot more work than it looks at first. Wouldn't Adywan have already done this though? He probably has a CC'd 2004 master sitting somewhere from before he began editing and vfx work.

I don't know what Mike Verta's page is, so never seen it, and damn if this just doesn't get more frackin confusing every damn day LOL, because when it comes right down to it, NOT everyone is going to happy with whatever coloring is done, everyone see's things differently, like you have people thinking lee's attempts in his new thread is the end all, be all, GOUT settings, well to me and a few others, they still don't look right at all, but whatever, that is his thing, and that is cool, I just wish we had something 100% concrete SOLID to gauge with(and a good video source) I also have been using your ideas and giving them a shot in AE, they do look promising, so is that the general consensus here that color tweaking the GOUT is easier than tweaking the 04's? and I know the 04's are the SE, just pretend it isn't.

Damn this wouldn't even be an issue if they were just released the way they were back then LOL.