Extremely long time, no clip. Here’s Padme adressing the senate in upscaled form. This is pretty close to a final version, with a few more tweaks needed. Youtube of course killed the film grain out, but I did upload and render in 4K for purposes of a higher bitrate streaming. I most likely will try to widen the dynamic range of the scene in places more still, and smoothen out some of the tones.
https://youtu.be/iZniPM1zHt0
Note: I’ve been making versions such as these that focus more on modern film and removing the dated early digital look. Separating the “old” color grade as a layer on top of the base “filmized” grade, seems to be the best way of managing the workflow. Here you see the base layer version. Also, I may further tweak the upscale to be sharper, but it can be hard to keep artifacts away.
