It’s no secret that the digital home video releases of the OT have always been terrible – from the non-anamorphic GOUT to the SE Blus, something is always wrong.
One issue that I hear brought up multiple times in regards to the current masters of the SE is BLACK CRUSH (or crushed blacks). I understand the term in concept, but was wondering which films in the Blu-ray set suffer from it? I’m assuming that all three OT films have crushed blacks, but I noticed that TPM seems to be darker too. Do AOTC and ROTS suffer from this problem?
I took the Blu-ray files and threw them into Vegas and boosted the gamma a tad, does this look to eliminate the black crush, or am I doing it entirely wrong? If so, what is the correct method to fix crushed blacks?