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Post #690472

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kk650
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kk650's Star Wars Saga: Regraded and Semi-Specialized (Released)
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Date created
16-Feb-2014, 7:58 AM

rockin said:

I really like it, there is however a little bit of purple/pinkness to some of the whites.

@rockin: Thanks for your thoughts. I'm glad you like how this clip looks overall, certainly a very good sign. As for the little bit of purple/pinkness to some of the whites though, take a look at these two screencaps taken from the same clip, same angle but one taken from the start of darth/leia's chat and one taken from the end:

Beginning of chat:

End of chat:

Can you see how the whites in the white lights have a bit of purple in the first shot while they do not in the second? Can you see how the corridor walls are more green in the first shot than the second? These differences are easier to see if you open both the screencaps in seperate windows and switch between them.

Both shots have been taken by exactly the same camera from the same angle with the same lighting. They should look exactly the same colourwise yet for some reason the colours are different.

This is a good example of the colour grading inconsistency shot by shot of Star Wars across the whole film. Unless you are doing a shot by shot regrade, which I personally am not, which of these two shots do I regrade for and fix so all the whites are completely white? Fixing one will invariably mess up the other screencap and other shots in the film. What I am aiming to do is to strike as good a balance as possible so with that comes an acceptance that the whites are not going to look 100% white in every single shot throughout the film, like the slight amount of purple in the white lights of the first screencap.

I do think the whites overall in this clip though look pretty accurate for the most part. Would you agree with that? Of course I have purposely chosen the one scene in the whole film that most highlights these sort of issues because there is so much white everywhere. Any other colour grading inconsistencies would be far less noticable in the rest of the film.