OMEN!-_-! said:
Yes, the 2004 dvd and by extention the blu-ray transfers have a few clipped whites, but neither the GOUT nor the SWE LD are 100% accurate representations of the theatrical releases either IMHO. In those cloud city screencaps, the flesh tones of the SWE LD are far too orange (all the characters look like they've been tangoed) and the GOUT is far too dark, with black crush, resulting in lots of shadow detail loss, very much present. Of the three screencaps, the 2004 dvd screencap is the most balanced and 'correct' looking, with flesh tones the most accurate as well, even with the whites blown out IMHO.
The reason I posted that screencap of the SWE LD was to demonstrate how much detail that get lost in the clipped whites in some scenes, not to say that the SWE LD or the GOUT have a perfect colortiming, because they haven't, far from it.
OMEN!-_-! said:
The way I see it, the white crush is there on the blu-ray, that detail cannot be recovered, even if you were to reduce the brightness, so why not boost the brightness slightly more to make the image overall more appealing. You don't lose much more than what's already been lost due to white crush on the original blu-ray (and of course only in the few scenes throughout the film where white crush is an issue) and you get a far more appealing transfer throughout the whole film.
Why I mentioned boosting the brightness being an issue have nothing to do with clipped whites, that's an whole other issue, don't know if things can be slightly recovered or not, I have in fact not even seen the blu-ray, so maybe things are slightly different compared to the DVD version. Anyway, the reason I mentioned upping the brightness being an issue is that several scenes have already been brightened for the SE compared to how they looked originally.
OMEN!-_-! said:
BTW msycamore, just to clarify one thing, you said (or at least implied) in your post that i'm using just one colour/brightness setting for Star Wars. That is actually very much incorrect.
I didn't say or even imply that, I just mentioned that one setting cannot solve the many problems these transfers have, you really have to do a shot by shot correction to get any decent results in my opinion.
You seem to have a quite clear picture of how you want these edits to look, I can only echo what Harmy said before me, and in the end, it's really what you like and prefer that's important, I wish you good luck with your project.