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Post #695483

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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
14-Mar-2014, 8:30 AM

Knightmessenger, let me start off by saying that all feedback on this thread, whether positive or negative, is very much welcome so thank you for your thoughts.

First thing though, the screencaps from page 5 you're commenting about don't represent the latest settings, those are on page 7, plus those page 5 screencaps are taken directly from the regrader preview, which is noticably more contrasty and saturated that the final encode. The screencaps on page 7 are the final classic and technicolor settings for Star Wars, taken straight from encodes, not the ones on page 5, so they best represent how the Star Wars regrade is going to look. Feedback aimed at those screencaps would be more relevant.

Secondly, its a bit silly making definitive judgements on the grading of people like myself that are using large professionally colour calibrated monitors when you are using an uncalibrated laptop, which are notoriously bad at judging the colours of anything, especially for something as sensitive as grading a film, unless you own one of those really expensive ones professional photographers use to view/modify their photos that have been professionally colour calibrated.

Thirdly, the GOUT has a hell of a lot of problems, brightness/contrast/saturation levels are inconsistant across the whole film and fleshtones are too red. It was useful to give a rough idea of what the film should look like but nothing more. I'm not interested in creating a shot by shot regrade of the GOUT because it wouldn't look good to me personally. If a recreated GOUT using the blu-ray as a source is what you're looking for, then these Semi-Specialised editions are not for you.