Harmy's Despecialized Star Wars 1977 - Color Adjustment Project for v2.7 (released) — Page 17

Screen caps are nice, but a video shows much more. I put this together of the 77 crawl, 81 crawl, 97 crawl and TESB crawl so you can see the difference.

https://vimeo.com/160390349
password: OT

Anyway, unless anyone is volunteering to make a nice cleaned up HD crawl for this project there are probably better threads to discuss the nuances of each, as it ain’t getting reconstructed by me. 😃

towne32 said:

Anyway, unless anyone is volunteering to make a nice cleaned up HD crawl for this project there are probably better threads to discuss the nuances of each, as it ain’t getting reconstructed by me. 😃

Well, I’m doing it for my own project and I wouldn’t mind sharing. Considering the sources, I think 720p is about as good as it is going to get.

I’m sure many people would be appreciative if you did a 720p 1981 crawl with a little less gate weave than mine. 😛

What’s the latest ETA? I was hoping to watch it this weekend.

Maybe by next weekend.

yotsuya said:

towne32 said:

Anyway, unless anyone is volunteering to make a nice cleaned up HD crawl for this project there are probably better threads to discuss the nuances of each, as it ain’t getting reconstructed by me. 😃

Well, I’m doing it for my own project and I wouldn’t mind sharing. Considering the sources, I think 720p is about as good as it is going to get.

Btw, in case anyone is interested, here’s my version of the 81 crawl that will be included as an option on my BD, but I may create a straight mkv with this tagged onto 2.7 if there’s any interest. This is a slightly older version and a couple small mistakes have been remedied since I posted this initially.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B2bJjDvnfW0YM3FxdmRhcnBFUHM/view?usp=sharing

Thank you! This is great!

Even though I could have done without reading through two pages of discussion about the opening crawl, I’m very excited about v2.7 being so close to release. 😃

I’ve gotten the final shot from Darth Lucas and rendered the lossless master. The final 264 is rendering during the day today and then I’ll mux the final mkv tonight. So, if anyone wants to look at it early to make sure everything is okay, post here and I’ll get you the mkv before it goes onto the spleen.

I can check it tonight!

I would be honored to check it out tonight as well. Also because I don’t belong to the Spleen community. : (

Well, hopefully it will be online by the end of the night. So some of you guys might actually be watching it tomorrow, depending on time zone. 😛

First of all, there are 3 fairly large updates. I replaced Harmy’s “A Long Time Ago” card with TN1’s after cleaning and stabilizing it, and then adjusting the color and positioning based on Mike Verta’s sample. Darth Lucas rotoscoped the lightsaber in Ben’s hut with the one from the SSE, using the color adjust BD shot as background. It looks great! Catbus produced new Greedo subtitles based on the SSE that look very nice as well. Following Harmy’s advice, I put a bit less gate weave on the subs compared to his release.

I fixed a few goof-ups from 2.6. I had a few 1997 shots that were technically specialized: the matte painting when Chewie is in cuffs and two blaster shots in the “look out he’s loose” battle.

I messed up the wipe to Ben’s hut in 2.6, if you look closely. That’s fixed.

During the Mos Eisley entrance scene, I screwed up and accidentally had several shots from Harmy’s 2.0, meaning they contained GOUT elements instead of 35mm. Fixed and graded the correct shots.

Also regraded the beginning of that scene including the initial speeder shot and 35mm TN1 sequence, as they were sepia/saturated before. Some other slight tweaks during the rest of the scene.

There have been color changes throughout the film. Mostly small changes for a bit of consistency here and there, but some larger changes. Mostly, to remove overly green tints from certain Death Star shots, as well as a few Tatooine shots.

Off the top of my head, some of the de-greened shots are: C3PO looking up before the Tantive is taken up (it was mismatched to the previous shot of him). R2’s canyon sequence has been given a more uniform brownish red compared to the varying levels of green from before. The yellow has been toned down in the shots where Luke and 3PO catch up with R2 before the raider attack. The closeups of R2 in his rockless cave have been slightly degreened, as have the two long shots of Ben approaching. The following scene with the force choke had some green removed from the walls, as did various other scenes in this room with Tarkin.

Color adjusted the ‘check every part of the ship’ sequence to remove some green, I think. Reduced green in the control room walls/door as Luke/han leave (hope they don’t have blasters shot). The shot of Vader in the halls that Harmy darkened has reduced green in the shadows. Reduced green when the stormtroopers explode through a wall (“get behind me”). There were a few shots of Tarkin during the battle of Yavin where his skin was overly yellow, those were fixed. There are probably several more instances.

There were several scenes where I went back to the BD and regarded from scratch to remove yellow tones. These include the cockpit scenes leaving Tatooine and approaching the Death Star. As well as the scene where Han loads up his reward and argues with Luke (and the shot of Tarkin immediately before that).

Other small color things, again off the top of my head:

De-blued scene before the droids enter the pod. I kind of messed this up last time.

Desaturated a few shots of R2 before and during the droid sale.

Tweaked one shot during dinner with uncle and aunt for consistency with the only other shot from the same angle.

Tweaked a few shots inside Ben’s hut for slightly more consistency.

Slightly brightened the shot of the droids standing around the Sandcrawler as ben and luke talk about blaster accuracy.

Slight desaturation as ben leaves the tractor beam room and as the gang runs in the following shot.

Changed the color of the following scene as Han runs into the storm troopers (and before and after) to remove some strong and varying tints. Reduced the very strong saturation in one early shot in the bridge scene.

Reduced black levels in the 35mm ‘falcon peeling off’ shot at the end, as they were quite bright.

Added a post-credits thanks sequence, as Harmy does.

Edit: and upgraded to project threepio 9.1 subtitles, and included a Hindi dub.

Harmy said:

towne32 said:

There were several scenes where I went back to the BD and regarded from scratch to remove yellow tones. These include the cockpit scenes leaving Tatooine and approaching the Death Star.

But you did keep the shots where I removed the extra shake, right?

Everything facing out towards space had great color and was kept, including the shake and Death Star shots (though the latter was slightly desaturated).

I’ve checked every shot based on your gallery and think every despecialization is intact. But hopefully eagle-eyed folks catch anything that isn’t, as was the case with that Chewie shot last time. Had to spot the two laser blasts myself, though!

You can count me in as one of your testers Town.

Oh, in addition to all that stuff I just said, 2.7 is encoded from Harmy’s lossless masters, while 2.6 was encoded from his x264 mkv release.

Towne, it’s really awesome that you and Harmy worked together to give us an even better version of Despecialized. Thank you both for all of your amazing work. 😃

Darth Mallwalker said:

Castilian Spanish?

Yes, as with 2.6 this has that fixed as well as Ukranian, Russian, Thai, and Navajo. This one also has the new Hindi track. So thanks Catbus, for all of that.

The saber shot is uncropped compared to 2.5, using the blu-ray as the background. So, it looks like that with adjusted color and the blade from SSE.