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mverta
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StarWarsLegacy.com - The Official Thread
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23-Jan-2015, 3:06 PM

Well we all want a proper restoration, don't we, Petr?  So I'm curious, if you were me, and you know two things:  1) Not all of the channel misalignments are on the negative, and 2) It is impossible to tell which is which... which ones would you fix?

Fix none of them, and you don't have a "proper" restoration.  Fix the wrong ones and you don't have a "proper" restoration.  This goes for all the other elements in the frame which can't be determined as print or negative as well; a simple color adjustment is not a proper restoration, either. Ditto not recruiting data from adjacent frames, when we know each frame of a print is incomplete compared to the negative.  I struggle with this every day.  How would you have handled it?

Regarding the primary difference being resolution, I'd certainly have to agree that's a large factor, given that 4K is 25x higher resolution than DVD. :)

As for the blue-green tint, that's part of what's going on in this next pass - globabl color adjustment.  The X-Wings were not painted blue, nor intended to be blueish - that's straight from the horse's mouth - though the effects of lighting and compositing were anticipated.  The original TIE fighters, for example, were painted a sort of medium blue-gray, knowing that they would blow out to gray in the filming. The most likely culprit for the blue-ish tint is the overall blooming of the blue channel in composites.  It's why the stars tend to have a blue tint - it's just a photographic anomaly; the blue channel bloomed more in the photography than the others. But of course, it could absolutely have been color grading, too.

_Mike