G-force, you know I appreciate your work and the clip I linked was not minimally intended to disappreciate it, at the contrary I was inspired by it, but you know, there are good masters (like you) and bad apprentices (like me).
Now I try to answer to your points:
1) As I wrote in my first post, the HD with Star Wars clips, tests, scripts etc. is gone... I found that clip online looking for my own scripts, and put on youtube "as is (was)"... you are right, there is a need of before-after clips... And don't forget to say "thank you" to youtube... ;-) that make another compression on a compressed source... by the way, I found some elsewhere and then posted online - here you are the link to old comparison clips:
http://www.fileconvoy.com/dfl.php?id=g9d7d92a4accd929c156819a236c1e44229cb04
and they are the LAST WhiteMagic example/comparison I'll post here.
2) I like very well constructive criticism, and politeness is welcome in every aspect of life. And, because I asked those critics, thanks to them I'm now definitely persuaded to leave this kind of work to someone who is capable of doing it way better than me - infact, I realized the new version of the script is worst then the older ones; this is a hint that I'm certainly doing something wrong... ;-)
3) About sharpening, I admitted until the first post, and you are right - tooooo sharp. About colors... I made the corrections "by eye", and was sure they were right, until... I discovered someone of my family "tinkered" with my HDTV display (that I use also as PC monitor) settings, so all the color corrections done were wrong... I'm quite sure my cats are innocent (Am I so sure?!?)
4) Thanks for your comprehension, I think here we are all passionate users and/or ABusers... as I wrote in the point #2, it's better I'll leave this kind of work to the professionals... I decided to stick with my laserdisc captures - what crazy things in 2012! - and leave the postprocessing to others.
@timdiggerm: you are right, I changed my signature so now you know how you could call me...
