dark_jedi said:
No offense zombie, but how do you know what exactly the colors should be? I mean, to play Devils advocate here, who says what you are saying is Gospel and 100% correct?
Well, this is not some hypothetical thing here, this can be factually shown; either the colours should be muted or they should be not be muted.
When you look at the Technicolor prints, look at the older bootlegs, looks at previous telecines, look at trailers, consult reports of original showings, look at the GOUt and realize it has a lack of saturation and then increase that saturation and get a result that approximates all the previously-mentioned sources--it's no coincidence. Lucas even said about the Technicolor print of SW: "That's the Star Wars I shot."
You know colors is just a very heated topic because everyone, well most everyone, see things differently, it will never look great to all, I found that out myself doing this kind of tweaking on a project of mine, it just really boils down to what Harmy wants and likes, and it is always easier dealing with the Folks that agree with you, than disagree, so I will stay out of the color talk in this thread like I have done in a couple of other members threads here to.
Good luck Harmy, just do what looks right to you.
It's not about opinion. This is either one way, or another. And whichever way it is, it can be demonstrated with evidence. Evidence indicates, practically irrefutably, that the stronger colour palette is the more accurate one--not that every choice should be taken as gospel but that, as a rule of thumb, this is the sort of levels that should be present. I realise the SE has a lot of fucked up colours, I'm not saying those should be followed, and I'm not suggesting the I.B. 2010 screening caps should be followed precisely, but I can guarantee you that Harmy is on the right track, in general terms at least. The only time the OT ever looked like it did on the GOUT is in certain analog home video telecines--even on the 1995 THX and 1997 SE telecines the colours make the GOUT look like black and white. The fact that when you dial out the red and increase the saturation the GOUT looks like many other film sources is no coincidence.