GOUT: E.C. Edition v2 **RELEASED**

GOUT: Extremely Cruddy Edition features the following:

*Blown out picture

*Loss of detail

*Low resolution

*Uncrisp image

*Compressed, small file size

*Popping/diluted colours

*All-new dubious colour pallette

*Crushed blacks

*Destroyed starfields

-On the plus side it is available now to watch, (pm me for link if you need this in your life today) or alternatively you can request any screenshots you require here.

Screens:

Original GOUT

GOUT: E.C. Edition

Here is a sample of some of the advanced feedback from OT members:

"No. No. No."

"In the name of all that is good and right, please stop - you are making things much worse"

"I am really looking forward to Team Blu's V2 and 97SE releases"

Space Hunter M said:

Whoa, it's like one of the old pan and scan masters with the frame opened up!

Yep I grew up with the blown out Pan and Scan VHS look I think this is why Star Wars seems more familiar too me when its overly bright

For the dinner scene the Senator has a kind of a lilac tint (similar to your result NeverarGreat), with these settings everything comes out with a much more yellow/green tint because of how much I'm shifting away from pink/red. Its not theatrically accurate then, but still lies within the range of believable flesh tones (at least on this frame - the next one coming up is not so good)

Senator

E.C. Edition

This shot is a nasty one - it never looks right to me even in the Senator frame:

E.C. Edition:

My result here suffers from being washed out/pasty due to the non-discrimination of a one stop setting. Not good, but looks better in the context of the matching shots around it in the version, a bit like a faded print effect.

E.C. Edition

This is a good frame to show the effect the yellowy-green tint has in de-redding GOUT

GOUT

E.C. Edition

Tack said:

I had a similar idea once. My idea was to take a few low-res transfers and the GOUT and recreate the shoddy transfer of Lucas's technicolor print from Empire of Dreams.

Yep I think its not possible to make GOUT as rich as a full-bodied print but only sort of hint at it, so there is room to make different faded and tinted looks. I was looking at 70mm frames on ebay and lots of them seem to have different tints based on the light source. Here is the same frame from the same listing just lit differently and see how it changes the colours:

timdiggerm said:

Yeah some of these look better than GOUT

I can't enjoy GOUT or the Special Edition straight now after seeing the retools that people are bringing out here.

Feallan said:

Yeah, let's rape poor SW one more time. O.O

well i was going to say revive, but it is very yellow i'll give you that..

The reason behind using a theatrically inaccurate yellow tint in this case and doing extreme contrasts is still in the cause of getting to aspects of the original, not to degrade them on purpose. Example:

Gout

SE

Senator (fullest representation of the original colours)

E.C. Edition (de-redded but still meant to give an aspect impression of the original)

timdiggerm said:

Let's not forget that the Senator photos are taken casually with a DSLR from a weird angle with no real prep to ensure accuracy.

Thats true. I'm going by the idea that the tech print/negative faded less than those used for the GOUT and SE and taking on faith that the camera didnt introduce too much of a distortion. Here's a very saturated 70mm frame that shows Han's shirt with a yellow bias, it probably wouldnt come out this dark projected, but it sort of matches up to the senator balances

Ideally I would be able to tint it more exactly but its difficult to overcome all the colour range missing as well as nailing the balances down.

Asaki said:

Call me when this is on VCD.

I'm going to start a new golden age by releasing my version via heavily duped VHS copies. Blanks welcome.

Yep I think that the differences between vhs, technidisc, Gout and SE, etc. means theres already a lot of different looks in play, hopefully with going back and forth with different versions, it will end up not muddying the water but tuning things to get to where the best range lies.

Here's another example of what I think is the light source changing things, both of these are 70mm collector film cells from ebay listings and I'm guessing the second was photographed with a much more yellow light source behind it.

So with this release I was trying to match up closer to the colour result in the second

E.C. Edition