Star Wars Colortiming & Cinematography (was What changes was done to STAR WARS in '93?) — Page 11

Baronlando said:

I used to use that quote when arguing at TFN, didn't matter. Those mooks all thought they understood cinematography better than American Cinematographer. Annoying, but it's a good indicator of the psycho loyalty LFL enjoys. It's like having a whole marketing spin team that works for free.

i thought this was interesting:

Overall, the clarity of the images in all three films is astounding. Though detrimental to the first film’s visual scheme, the increased sharpness reveals new details in production design and wardrobe. A restoration team at Lowry Digital spent three months working with more than 600 Power Mac G5s (making up more than 378 terabytes of space) to clean the original films and create pristine digital masters. The color transfers for The Empire Strikes Backand Return of the Jedi are nowhere near as problematic as the one for Star Wars;although contrast has been slightly increased in both films, the differences are not nearly as stark. Both Empire and Jedi look fantastic, and some color-correction tweaks have improved previously lackluster visual-effects moments, such as Luke Skywalker’s fight with the Rancor in Jedi. The new color-correction of this scene has cleaned up the composite shots, matching the live-action photography with the stop-motion-animated monster much more precisely, rendering a more effective sequence.

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i tend to agree with this description.

anyways, it took them 3 months with 378T of space.

we're working on 6 months now with about 8-10T of space.

of course, it's also 1-2 people vs a team. and of course our

results will be somewhat comparable but not quite as detailed.

still, a good read.

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here are some stills scanned from

the original 1976 trailer, color

has NOT been adjusted:

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digitalfreaknyc said:

Man,

I would love to have HD captures of the various trailers.

here's some more examples

of the trailer, some are kind

of blurry though:

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a continuation

of frames from the trailer..

some of these did not appear

in the final film version:

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here's some of the shots from

the empire strikes back:

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These ESB samples are looking very nice, great job of the color timer, I think this was also just a first pass on it, am I right -1? Keep up the good work! :)

Yes, these look incredible. Congratulations on those :-)

msycamore said:

These ESB samples are looking very nice, great job of the color timer, I think this was also just a first pass on it, am I right -1? Keep up the good work! :)

 Yep, those are all really old shots.

They look perfect already, it's actually hard to believe it was pink faded when seeing the fantastic colors on those.

thanks everyone for the kind words.

we appreciate it! and harmy, cinch

wants me to let you know he saw

your workprint for star wars, is very

impressed with your color corrections.

they match most of our colors too! very good job!

here's some comparison shots i've posted

before of our version versus some of the

35mm and 70mm scans out there.

our version is on the right:

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msycamore said:

I tracked down this comparison from the The XØ Project thread, there really is a huge difference.

here are our very dark versions.. not quite

corrected:

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