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Post #500359

Author
Doctor M
Parent topic
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince Extended and Enhanced by Doctor M (Released)
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Date created
18-May-2011, 1:23 PM

You're not being rude.  I like constructive criticism.
I'm aware it is a bit too bright and oversaturated.  The first scene has some odd color fringing, but the second one I think should be almost cartoon colored.  Still when I fix the former, it will reduce the latter.

As far as brightness, the first scene is at night, so I would definitely go for lower levels.  Btw, did anyone notice in the last screen shot you can now see there is actually someone in the top left of the frame reading a book?  I wonder if the book text magically glows. ;-)

So really, I was just starting to play around with a new auto-filter on the default settings and was blown away by how much color and level detail is still in those images even as crushed as they seem on the DVD.

For any final version I will use the un-color-corrected deleted scenes as a guideline to find the appropriate settings.  Hopefully I'll be able to find one setting that works across the whole film.

In the mean time @#$@#$ soundtrack.  HPB contains a bonus downloadable 5.1 mix... except it's 2-channels.  When upmixed via DPL2 sounds almost identical to my ears as the CD.  VERY misleading advertising.

Also in the movie they've mixed music into the center channel with the dialog which means stripping music to remix a scene is out an out impossible to get perfect.

I already had one scene I was dubious about, I'm afraid the final scene may come off a bit crappy as well.

I'll post clips for opinions when I'm further along.