team_negative1 said:
Here is the 720p version of the Yoda cleaning test sample.
Tobar said:
I noticed some really odd flickering on the ground and on the front landing gear. Is that an artifact from some automated clean-up process?
team_negative1 said:
Perhaps, but more likely from the actual scanning process. This was from the oldest print we have. The newer Fuji prints exhibit a different appearance.
Is the "Grindhouse" release based on the new Fuji prints? There was a complete absence of the strange flickering on the ground and on the landing gear in that uncleaned version of the scene.
It really looks like an automated scratch remover went to town on any white reflections it detected and tried to mask them. Wherever there were bright white reflections in the Grindhouse release is where that strange flickering manifested itself in the cleaned sample.