Lee said:
Just out of curiosity, how is this coming along? :)
Funny you ask, since a few people have inquired lately. I will paraphrase. The regrading is mostly done. I stopped working on everything else and have only focused on this in my limited spare time. What's left is the obsessive last tweaks. Have to fix skin tones here or there. The hyperspace scene needs some work. So I'd say the regrade is about 90-95% done, maybe more. I probably need a second pair of eyes to look it over to make sure I didn't miss something. I had to manually grade a couple thousand shots, sometimes frame by frame so I might have missed something. I also have the three movie soundtracks. They are pretty much in sync.
The big remaining problem is I need to figure out menus. I would love menus but I can't make them myself (don't know how to) so unless I can teach myself or someone can help I might not have them. I rather no menus then crappy ones. And then maybe a cover....
Here is some work I just finished up and its a good example of why I did this regrade. When you look at this regrade you might not notice a lot of changes unless you have the BD colors memorized. In truth I did hundreds of subtle color changes to achieve parity with the LD.
When the Director's Cut was release they took the Brett/Landing gear scene which always had a golden hue and turned it up to 10. The 1995 LD has a more balanced look and in the first two pics, when Brett is looking around, I removed the excessive gold and added back the blue highlights (there is overhead blue light in the scene).
When the BD rolled around they took the work that was done on the DC and added a green filter to a lot of the movie. That love affair with adding green to movies is becoming far worse then the whole teal and orange craze. Anyway a lot of the grading I have done is to remove that added green, like these last two pics. I then added red back into Brett's face and then blue highlights. Just the way the LD looks.
So if you like these type of changes this is the regrade for you. Hopefully people will like it.