Cheers for the feedback Harmy! I'm glad that you liked the brightness of the sand people clip. I think i'm just going to go with that same brightness setting for the whole film. I've encoded 75% of the film with this brightness setting and i'm pretty happy, definately a clear improvement on the blu-ray in that regard and removes that 'underexposed' look for the most part. Yeah, I know that there are certain variations in brightness throughout the film/s but i'm not the cinematographer/director so I can't really make a valid assessment on whether these brightness variations were intentional or not IMHO. I'm certainly not planning to start brightening and darkening the films on a scene by scene basis to fit my personal preferences.

Man, as far as the Hoth clip is concerned, its times like this where i wish i could ask the cinematographer of ESB how he intended this scene to look. Your despecialised screencap to me looks too dark on my monitor, like the scene is playing out at dusk when i'm pretty sure its still meant to be full daylight and thereby brighter. Your despecialised screencap is definately a fair bit darker than even the blu-ray. I personally prefer the colours and brightness in my screencap, Luke's bluish fleshtone seem more accurate to the freezing conditions on Hoth while Luke's face in your screencap looks a little too dark and orange IMHO. What does everyone else think? Man, colour grading is a real tricky business...