I’m particularly interested in your regrade of AOTC. Looks pretty good from the screenshots. Any idea for releasing that one?
Was there a universal setting applied for AOTC you can describe, or scene by scene?
Thanks, and good luck completing what looks to be an ambitious but very nice project!
I’m starting each one with universal settings. ANH is going to require the most work because somewhere between the recompositing for the 1997 SE and the 2003 scan, they screwed some things up royally that I intend to fix. That is why I’m trying to start with some of the public work DrDre has been doing, color correct the GOUT with that in mind, color correct the 97 SE with that in mind and then address the BR. That way I will have two versions to compare to to see what changes they made to the settings for the 2003 scan. I have been tweaking my universal settings for ANH and I think I have eliminated the need for a few of the additional corrections. But some are still needed. The early blockade runner scenes are over contrasted, there is a blotch under C-3PO’s arm when he is standing in front of the skeleton. Some of the flowers are bleached out at the Lars homestead, in the Veder/Kenobi duel the light sabers change colors, several of the X-wing and Y-wing explosions are muted, the Death Star status screen showing the approach to the rebel base is blue, the rebel base screen showing the approach of the Death Star is washed out around the border. There are a couple of things in TESB and ROTJ as well, but not nearly so many. The universal settings for the PT are a bit better, but suffer from some inconsistencies. I think I have TPM nearly done and the other two are close. I just haven’t determined if I need to make any specific scene corrections. AOTC may require some in the Sand People village as the shots aren’t a consistent color and I might tackle the blockade runner scenes in ROTS separately so they can be closer to ANH without impacting the rest of the film.