I have the GOUT color corrected. None required very much. I can see why they used this set of prints for the Definitive Edition LD set. I made them a little darker (some might complain about crushed blacks, but I like that making them darker hides a multitude of sins, like the garbage mattes and the slugs).
Now I’m on to the Blu-rays. I toyed with ANH again, but I moved on. I can’t seem to find the secret and I’m beginning to think that some of the color information I am trying to recover might be just plain lost. The blue channel appears to be the most intact while the green requires the most work. I know I can fix the blue panel in the Y-wing, but I’m not sure the information is there to fix the Death Star viewscreen. And I know the information is there to fix all the crushed brights in the explosions in ANH, but the same thing isn’t working for ROTJ.
Anyway, my first pass at the Saga has produced some interesting results. I think I have TESB and AOTC. And I might be close for TPM (though without the brighter blues I had hoped for so I don’t think I am done yet), but ROTS and ROTJ aren’t there yet. Close, but not close enough. But, I have Yoda nearly matched in the 5 movies he appears in. I think he is just about dead on in TPM, AOTC, and TESB and nearly there in ROTS and ROTJ. But, I’ll let the images do the talking. I have two from TESB because one is a general lighting that should match the PT and the other is the firelight glow in his hut to match ROTJ.
