@ChainsawAsh
Don't worry, I never thought your post was rude, just (constructive critism).
The good thing about this forum is that I can get feedback from people that will notice details others (or myself) overlook.
Besides, your were right about the darkness and blue shift. The shot is fairly dark because I tried to make my test clip look similar to the original 2004 DVD.
These DVDs are also dark and have very vivid colors (decrypt it to hd, and load a vob in VirtualDubMod to see yourself, don't use a player such as PowerDVD because it will alter the image.)
I will probably cancel my attempts to use color correction because parameters that work well on one scene look terrible on another. It would be too much work. I will just change the saturation and brightness/contrast settings slightly.
The german audio track is very important part of my DVD-concept, because I want to to share this DVD with some friends who prefer german language in movies. Of course I can always author different DVDs once I have all video, audio and subtitle tracks ready.
My "dream Star Wars DVD" would be a good quality version with at least german and english audio, plus 1 or 2 commentary tracks, subtitles and the possibility to choose between original cut, special edition and 2004 DVD edition via multiangle. This of course is way too much for a single DVD-5, but could theoretically be done for DVD-9.
I also understand that you have no need for a PAL version.
Btw, what is the standard way of playing PAL discs on NTSC equipment?
If you play a NTSC disc on a PAL player it outputs PAL60 (or NTSC if you have multi-standard TV) or it drops frames (which looks horrible).
Greetings
Grisan