This shot? http://i.imgur.com/HNimLm8.jpg I think I used harmy’s 97SE for the rest of that scene, starting from that shot. The 2.5 color correction had been pushed so far that there was nothing left (at least for someone with my skillset) to work with, especially in the final shot of the scene. Some of those shots, to me, look super sharpened in 2.5, but it may just be something about the color correction? There’s nothing particularly bad looking about that arm shot, but you have to keep in mind that it’s the same shot that pans over to the characters, which in turn needs to match the other (same) shots of those characters as much as possible. It’s a pain in the ass to color correct shots that are actually two shots, as such. A huge example is Han getting up from Greedo’s table, walking up to the bar, and the Death Star shot that it wipes to.

Anyway, I don’t think there should be anything wrong with the shot. But I don’t know the specifics about the 97SE there. If something was done that would reduce the picture quality or soften the image, or if the encoding was somehow less quality (but I doubt it). I had the lossless files for that as well, so re-encoding shouldn’t have been the issue.

For other shots: If it’s a 35mm shot. Yeah, it’ll probably be softer. It’s sharpened to a degree, but there’s a point where it starts to look bad. It’s better than super-sharpened GOUT.

For the werewolf: Yeah, Harmy used the GOUT for that. This was before we had super resolution techniques and, more importantly, a good 35mm source.

Leia’s hand: No idea. Maybe color correction related, but different from the werewolf.