Burned this to a disc this morning and looked at a few scenes on my TV. Just a minor quibble: I had the warmth set to a neutral level on my screen (largely to compensate for the yellow in Harmy’s version), and at those settings fair hair tended to look a little greenish, most obviously Luke’s and some of the grey-haired imperial officers. Bumping the warmth up a little bit did the trick, but I thought that might be something you’d want to know.
Thanks for viewing! It’s hard to really assess the feedback much without knowing what scenes or shots, specifically, are in question, as there are big differences between Tatooine, DS, Yavin, etc. But as I may have said in this thread, a lot of the Death Star interiors are straight from Harmy’s 1997 and they can be greenish at times. Too much for some people’s tastes. But the bottom line is that this color adjustment is not perfection. Over-adjusting is risky and can create more problems than it solves, making other elements in the shot look unnatural. The film went through multiple rounds of color correction already (you_too, and I don’t know if Harmy’s various corrections were compounded onto each other). Combine that with my mediocre abilities and there are limits to what can be done. And once you start tweaking one shot in a scene, you end up adjusting everything else surrounding it. Sometimes that works out well, sometimes not.
But regardless, it’s a bit hard to know what to make of feedback. If a TV is being set to ‘warm’ ‘neutral’ ‘cool’ type settings instead of calibrated properly (or semi-properly in my own case), it can make a huge difference. From the sets I’ve calibrated, the neutral setting has always been very warm or cool and not actually neutral (and the actual warm/cool settings were ridiculous). I definitely see why you would set it a certain way for something like Harmy’s 2.5. The same setting for mine might break things that weren’t broken before. And I think a lot of the color is rather intense in nature, so pushing it just a little further with weird TV settings might make it look way too unnatural. I think the material is probably a bit more delicate in that sense compared to other videos. Thanks again for taking a look. 😃