Color matching and prediction: color correction tool v1.3 released! — Page 23

Dunedain said:

DrDre said:

Dunedain said:

NeverarGreat said:

DrDre said:
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The improvement is a good one 😃 The skin tones, hair, and shirt all look just right.

I’d say this one is still the best overall. It’s gets rid of that carroty redness that’s always a problem for everyone onboard the ship better than any other correction I’ve seen. Restoring a natural fair appearance. Great job. I’d be very interested to see these same settings from this version of the correction used on the Imperial officers we see on the Tantive IV, if you please, DrDre. 😃

Which officers are we talking about?

Commander Daine Jir - http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Daine_Jir

and Commander Praji - http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Nahdonnis_Praji

Thanks very much if you can apply the settings used in the picture I refer to in my previous post on those two officers (using the best possible close-up shots available in the film) at high res. =)

I tested the color correction model on those frames, and it doesn’t look great. The Star Wars bluray really needs a shot by shot regrade.

Here’s an attempt at color correcting one of the soldier shots in the Star Wars bluray.

Bluray:

Regarde:

I discovered that the early home video releases for Raiders of the Lost Ark also didn’t have a red shift in the bar fight scene, as is evident from this clip of a VHS rip of Raiders:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nLKP3HDUg1Q

The difference between the bluray/WOWOW and the VHS colors for the bar fight scene is stunning.

VHS:

WOWOW:

WOWOW matched to VHS:

VHS:

WOWOW:

WOWOW matched to VHS:

Is there a new link to download the tool ? The link on the first post doesn’t work anymore. Thanks !

marvins said:

Is there a new link to download the tool ? The link on the first post doesn’t work anymore. Thanks !

Here’s an an updated link:

http://we.tl/s5pa7VEqeF (available till the 16th of November).

DrDre said:

Here’s an an updated link:

http://we.tl/s5pa7VEqeF (available till the 16th of November).

Thanks, but the link doesn’t work.

marvins said:

DrDre said:

Here’s an an updated link:

http://we.tl/s5pa7VEqeF (available till the 16th of November).

Thanks, but the link doesn’t work.

Sorry didn’t replace the link. Here’s the correct one:

http://we.tl/uzrIaMvHXq

DrDre said:

Sorry didn’t replace the link. Here’s the correct one:

http://we.tl/uzrIaMvHXq

Perfect, thanks !

Dunedain said:

Thanks for the pass over the image, that’s much improved. 😃 But I can see this shot is going to be one of those hard ones, that orangey carrot effect seen in the videos can be tough to get rid of. Might even need some kind of separate intra-frame correction that’s only applied to the skin, with all else in the frame getting a different set of correction values. Hmm, is there such a tool?

Skin tones also vary from person to person. It is nearly impossible to make every image match unless you know for certain that the makeup was applied identically to each person (as in the classic studio pictures). I’ve identified several very distinct skin tones in ANH. Leia, Luke & Han, Ben, the older Rebel soldier, and Tarkin to name a few. None of them match each other, but do tend to match the same character from different parts of the film (though lighting and exposure again change things considerably). Also, the degree of sun in Tunesia would naturally result in some redder skin tones in those scenes. I too wanted the perfect, even skin tones, but at a meeting a few weeks ago, I took note that the four people sitting across from me all had very different skin tones. And several were somewhat red, even under florescent lights in late fall - long after our sunny summer.

There are two choices dealing with the skin tones in Star Wars. You can either accept that they are never going to be perfectly even (a product of natural uneven skin tones and the way the movies were shot) and find the best fit, or you can get in there and color correct every scene and make them match. I’m going with the former in my efforts. I’ve found that every one of the 6 movies has this issue and I think you check, most movies will, especially when shot in so many varied locations.

Didn’t get there on time, could you post new link for v1.3? 😃

This shot using this setting looks amazingly filmlike.

Colek said:

Didn’t get there on time, could you post new link for v1.3? 😃

Here’s the link:

http://we.tl/0S41a6Z2Q0

Your tool is simply marvelous. Thank you very much for sharing it - once again 😃

Had some fun with Morphine (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1186366/) by Balabanov. There is no retail HD release, and only way to get HD copy is through Russian iTunes. Quality is overall pretty fine, considering it is sourced from streaming, but there is big green-ish tint to it (which doesn’t exist in any other release).

DVD (Scaled and cropped)

iTunes (Before)

iTunes (Color Corrected)

Awesome effect! Exported to LUT and it works fine in Davinci Resolve (although I had to do it twice, as first calculation was, for some reason, corrupted and LUT files generated through it couldn’t be read in any program).

Glad to see it’s working 😃. Strange about the corrupted LUT. Must be some kind of inconistency in the created LUT, although I don’t understand why exactly.

Yup, I’ll put it up on monday.

Here’s the link:

http://we.tl/KBQQllXaKD

Williarob said:

It works on red faded shots too! Here is a short tutorial: https://youtu.be/5OtaGT3A8Bs

I see you’ve hosted 1.3 somewhere more permanent. Perhaps, assuming Dre agrees, that should be linked in the first post instead of a soon to expire link?

Amazing video williarob! Thanks for posting it! It’s a great tutorial. I’ll put it at the start of the thread.