Hey I helped out :) The tracker went down last night (again) so that's probably part of why you've had trouble
“I find your lack of faith disturbing.”
Thanks, bilditup1. It seems to be downloading more smoothly right now.
Still downloading Empire and Jedi, but I have finished downloading Star Wars and was able to get started by trying out the Threepio lights msycamore mentioned. Only a few frames completed since I have to do it on a frame-by-frame basis. Here's an early sample:
There's some color-bleeding with that bottom green light that I can't seem to eliminate. The GOUT and TB pictures are warped slightly different and impossible to line-up perfectly without major work. Still, I think it's an improvement.
^ Nice results, is the scripting complicated for this sort of thing? Here's another color screw up in the GOUT if there's interest, the binocular shot at the moisture farm:
Here the green colored displays turned to red/pink.
SWE Technidisc LD:
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Sincerely, Lynne Hale publicity@lucasfilm.com
Thanks! And, if you spot anymore color problems, please let me know. I'd love to fix all of this stuff.
is the scripting complicated for this sort of thing?
Well...I can't seem to find a way to accomplish it just through scripting. The first, biggest reason is the changes in the telecine. The frames for GOUT are trimmed and warped differently than those from TB. It's pretty easy to combine GOUT and Faces in a script, but I can't find a way to match these 2 sources up perfectly.
The second is the color itself. My color correction abilities are novice to say the least. So, getting an exact match where the colors could blend seamlessly is out of the question.
The way I've been having to do it is frame-by-frame in Photoshop. It's time consuming, but is do-able since these are each relatively short sequences.
OmegaMattman said:
Thanks! And, if you spot anymore color problems, please let me know. I'd love to fix all of this stuff.
I think I have covered all the major ones, you have these three shots of Vader where the green lights in his belt turned pink but they are pretty minor.
We want you to be aware that we have no plans—now or in the future—to restore the earlier versions.
Sincerely, Lynne Hale publicity@lucasfilm.com
Well, what I thought would NEVER happen has happened. My primary backup HD got wiped during an effort to install a dual OS to another HD. Like a moron, I forgot to unplug it.
The good news is I didn't lose any of my main Anniversary working files, which were on my external backup HD. But I did lose the TB 97 DVDs I was working with. I'm in the process of snagging them off MySpleen at the moment...again.
I can't even begin to describe all of the other crap I lost. Ugh, thinking about it makes me want to punch babies!
Sorry to hear that, know how it feels.
As you're going through the trouble to fix those color issues, in case you missed it, I'd like to mention that its not only those two shots in the garage I posted earlier that are affected, the color stability isn't back until after Threepio has presented himself. A few more examples:
green turns blue
green turns pink
green turns cyan
green turns blue
green turns blue
Another minor one where blue turns pink.
We want you to be aware that we have no plans—now or in the future—to restore the earlier versions.
Sincerely, Lynne Hale publicity@lucasfilm.com
^ So basically, if in doubt, just change the colour of everything to green ;)
Great observations and screencaps msycamore.
“It’s a lot of fun… it’s a lot of fun to watch Star Wars.” – Bill Moyers
corellian77 said:
^ So basically, if in doubt, just change the colour of everything to green ;)
Like they did with the Fellowship of the ring extended blu-ray? :)
Nah seriously, good job msycamore finding that stuff. Me and DJ have been talking about fixing some of those color errors too.
Once you've seen it you cannot unsee it, that's why I am torturing you guys. I don't want to be alone. ;)
We want you to be aware that we have no plans—now or in the future—to restore the earlier versions.
Sincerely, Lynne Hale publicity@lucasfilm.com
Believe me, it's far from torture. Thanks for pointing it all out, msycamore. Having all of this documented makes this project a lot easier. The last thing I want is to get to what I think is the end...and find I've missed some major color problem.
Unfortunately, work is a bit slow-going at the moment. My PC is back in action, but real life seems to be getting in the way. I'll post a few video samples once I have a couple or more scenes corrected.
Thanks again for posting all of these screencaps :)
Sorry for the lack of updates. I've been really busy. And, I've also been trying some different things, going back and forth with different ideas, etc.
Unless I get a hiccup in the process . . . I've decided to use the chroma channels from the Faces LDs with the luma from my resized Hyperspace masters. My hope is it will make for a more balanced image when alternate sources are used (such as with the Emperor hologram). This should also solve the chroma shift in Empire without shifting the color channels themselves.
But, I wanted to make this brief post to let everyone know this has not become "vaporware" ;)