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Post #635624

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Spaced Ranger
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Info: Films re-color timed on video releases
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24-Apr-2013, 1:43 AM

The Lord Of The Rings: The Fellowship Of The Rings is Lucas-esque(tm) in it's amateurish re-coloring of the Blu-ray "Extended Edition" release. Regardless of the reasons (or reasoning), it's just plain sloppy work:


(from AVS Forum - The Lord Of The Rings Extended
http://www.avsforum.com/t/1307189/the-lord-of-the-rings-extended/990#post_20560106
with 4 more montages there linked)

An automated process, even if it worked (as there seems to be some question if one can do), for correcting the Blu-ray from the DVD, still would be problematic. Perhaps a simple color-correction applied across large swathes of film-time (with tweaks as needed) would do the job ... both here and to other movies.

For example, this EE DVD snapshot would be the target:

It's EE Blu-ray counterpart to correct:

would be processed with these few and simple settings:

     low   gamma   high   midtone (compress)
R   0     1.4         195    15
G   0     1.1         225    15
B   0     1.2         190    15

to produce this corrected EE Blu-ray (yes, really) for this sequence: