wonkeychoobaca said:

i just got done watching the work print and i am super excited. I however noticed that there are some scenes that have been brightened alot and thus have elevated black levels. The blacks look grey and creates the effect of looking through wax paper. It probably wouldn't be noticable if you adjusted your monitors settings though. I can point out the scenes if you are interested in fixing them.

Sure, I tried to avoid that for the most part and in some cases, I opted for it over the crushed blacks but if there are any distracting cases I may not have noticed, I'd sure like to know about them :-)

also i like the warmer color pallete but in some scenes it has made characters faces harder to see. mostly lukes and owens faces when they come out to buy the droids. however if this was present in the original film then i guess it is correct.

Yeah, I'm not quite happy with that, but the loss of detail in faces in that scene seems to be more due to some kind of DVNR applied to the 2004 master and it's more visible here due to it being brighter rather than warmer. Not much I can do, I'm afraid.

but overall it is a vast improvement to v1. any prediction on when part 2 of the work print will be done?

I try to avoid predictions now because in the past, I was usually wrong.

also i was wondering when you do esb and rotj v2 will You_Too be providing you with the color corrected blu ray footage?

Nothing's been decided yet. I'd of course appreciate if You_Too could provide that for me but I'd also understand if he doesn't want to.