msycamore said:

NeverarGreat said:

There's still some blue remaining, but this is still much improved over the original.

Not to discourage you, but the above screenshots gives you an example of how much color information that was eaten up by the "Lowry restoration" in this sequence, the blue artifacting in the '04 transfer is one thing and these '97SE screenshots are too cyan/blue so they looks a bit off but you can clearly see how screwed up the "fire" in the picture was, the same thing can be seen on explosions in the trench run as well. Just thought I would point that out to you in case you had forgotten how it looked. Might be impossible to restore though.

Well again, this isn't a scene-by-scene correction. Though from what I've seen, there can be a lot more done with these shots than most people would think. It just requires a lot of time (in my case) to figure out how best to do it. I would not be surprised if the original colors of the 97 SE could be completely rescued, but it would require a shot-by-shot correction, and I'd want to use the blu-ray in that case so it wouldn't have to be redone in higher quality. All of this falls beyond the (albeit limited) scope of this project.

@Chewtobacca: I've actually wanted to do a scene-by-scene correction for a while, essentially an optimization of the existing settings whenever needed throughout the film, without re-rendering to preserve quality. This would require 1: The know-how to work with the Blu-ray (easily attainable) and 2: A reasonable quantity of definitive sources for every scene (less easily attainable). One reason that I've stuck with this method for so long is quite simply the lack of good sources for scenes.