Yup, you can correct most of the reel in one go, provided the color shifts are consistent. This is what I’ve done with the above examples. I did notice that the early Tantive IV shots of reel one have slightly different shifts, so they require separate correcting. The procedure is as follows:
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Calibrate the color correction model on a set of frames, preferably with neutral colors, so not too many delibirate color biases. I wouldn’t calibrate the model on the Tatooine frames, as these had filters applied to them. In this case I calibrated the model on 1 out of 24 frames of almost the entire Tantive IV sequence.
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This model is then used to correct almost the entire first reel.
It’s as simple as that. The second reel I think is more challenging, because it mostly features Tatooine footage, but we’ll cross that bridge when we get there 😉.