msycamore said:

Or you guys could always wait until I do my own color corrected version straight from the raw files, I wouldn't recommend to re-render my DVD release with a new color setting, not just because of the quality loss a re-encode would present, but there is simply too much chroma noise on it, I don't think the resulting image would be that pleasant. But feel free to do it if you want to.

Yeah, I'm not going to do it now anyway. It will be interesting to see your new version! Actually I haven't even seen the old one yet, since I've been too busy with color correction... haha

msycamore said:

Your color corrected GOUT pics look very good, You_Too.

As the GOUT transfers have white clipping already, I would be careful to not introduce even more. The whites seems to be a little hot in a few places.

Thanks, and yeah I am very careful. When doing curve adjustments I make sure that whites are preserved, so when you see something that looks clipped, it is just pushed towards white but nothing gets clipped. Same with the shadow detail. I'm preserving both the white and black levels.

Also, this kind of gamma curve adjustments can fool the eye to think that details get clipped when they don't. I found a good way to preserve them so don't worry!