You_Too said:
To comment on the latest clip, it looks like the shadow detail has been crushed.
I don't know... because in the last clip I uploaded, that scene has NO color correction! To be sure, I checked all the three original captures, and they look like the same as the median result, as the upscaled and the sharpened/denoised results...
Maybe is due to the fact that the first screenshot came from the first tests I made, using three different players - and two through dvd recorder's comb filter; maybe there are different gamma settings on the laserdisc players, or on dvd recorders, or in the combination of two... who knows?!?
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Well, let's change the clip! Now I took Mos Eisley scenes; on the left, the original colors, on the right the color corrected. And this time I used a low bitrate (2000kbps) as this is only a test clip, and for that purpose, the quality is good enough... so, at 12MB, anyone would be happy to download and review it:
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About color correction, some thoughts came into my mind... "I made this simple color correction in Avisynth - that is a powerful tools, and free - in, counting only time devoted to "invent" the simple script and testing it, let's say ten hours; this is my first attempt at color correcting a movie, and I'm only a young old padawan learner, but the result is decent, surely better than the original pinkish mess, so... why THEY didn't do color correction with the laserdisc master at the time (1997) with all their powerful hardware - computers and also analog gears - and software, or why THE OTHERS didn't make something similar when they broadcast the DVB version (2004-5) when surely digital color correction was easy and not so expensive as, for example, could be in 1997?"
By the way, IIRC, avisynth were released around 2002, and could be used for the DVB broadcasting color correction... but I digress! (++_)