As promised, here is my landspeeder cleanup video. In this video I test out a bunch of different Noise filters for After Effects. Surprisingly, Neat Video 4 is not the best filter to use on the almost static SandCrawler scene, though it does by far the best job on the Landspeeder scene…
Though it didn’t make it into the video, I did try out Mike’s technique, changing the Hue on each channel and I can see how that might work to a certain extent, if you have the patience and the skill. It looked like each color pass would probably need to be in it’s own layer or at least use masking? Darth Lucas if you have any screen capture software I’d love to learn more about that technique.
Looking at Mike’s ‘final’ result though - which was still a work in progress at the time - it looks to me like he still denoised it with something like Neat Video after he was done playing with the hue controls…
Grading my own results:
Sandcrawler Shot: B+
Landspeeder Shot: C
Removing the grime in the landspeeder shot just left my shot looking a little too plasticy smooth, and hiding that with new, artificial film grain was the best I could do. Did it look better? Probably, but I don’t know that I’d want to use it. Needs more work!
Grading Mike Verta’s results:
Sandcrawler Shot: A. Mike’s Sandcrawler shot looks fantastic. (https://vimeo.com/119620458)
Landspeeder Shot: B. (https://vimeo.com/120218626)
His landspeeder shot certainly has more detail (hello 4k, multiple prints) but it still looks overly smooth to me, but that could just be down to the compression by Vimeo. I guess there really isn’t a lot we can do to improve it unless we want to borrow details from the blu-ray, which was not an option for the SSE or Legacy, but could be an option for another project…
I’d love to see what Mike’s final version looks like. Come on Disney - just release Legacy Edition already!