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Post #583153

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frank678
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PS78: Pre-ANH Star Wars Bootleg VHS from 1978 ***"RAW" DVD RELEASED***
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Date created
26-Jun-2012, 3:14 PM
the vlc media player has a bunch of sliders to adjust contrast, brightness etc., you can enter in the values manually via image adjust and the beauty of it is that you can toggle the image adjust settings on and off as you watch the film to see if you're improving the image across the whole film. Because all the settings inter-relate somehow (i don't know how) you can tease out the points where (you feel *its subjective*) the original film leans too heavy on contrast, or too heavy on saturation, so basically you keep shaving off an inch here or an inch here until you think the whole thing spreads out a bit better. If you want to you can input the numbers that work for me on my screen and see if they work for you. For me they just take out a touch of the heaviness of the red and contrast and allow a bit more mid rangey colour come out. The most obvious thing will be more yellow in the sand and stuff (if your monitor is displaying the same as mine). However, this might take away stuff like some really nice contrast in another scene that you might prefer to have. My settings are just to give a spin - no desciration of Star Wars intended honest! Since monitors vary its really better to make your own settings OR just leave the damn thing alone, which i sincerely am trying to do!!