Info & Feedback Wanted: Binary Sunset - my attempt with Avisynth

I’m experimenting a little to make this classic shot appear a little closer to its original cinematography in Avisynth, any thoughts and suggestions on contrast and saturation etc. are very welcomed.

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But in the end I’m not sure if it’s really worth all the trouble, the close-up of the suns have to be tweaked individually as many sources suggests they should have a color pallette closer to this

instead of this

and the quality of this footage in the GOUT is horrible as you can see in these captures below, the wonderful DVNR-smear in full force, and the wipe to the garage at the end of the scene makes it all even more troublesome…

Anyway, here is a video sample of my script so far

http://www.sendspace.com/file/f8dg8o

Please, let me know what you think.

Well, f**k it. I'll have to do it in sony vegas or something to get any satisfactory results. Nevermind the sample. ;) Will post when I have something...

Yeah, this is a little closer...

...the problem is that you're very limited with what you can do in Avisynth with the internal filters, haven't looked in to all the external color filters yet. But it would be nice to get something closer to the original colors and remove the red shift in the canyon with Artoo etc.

msycamore said:

I'm experimenting a little to make this classic shot appear a little closer to its original cinematography in Avisynth, any thoughts and suggestions on contrast and saturation etc. are very welcomed.

Before

After

here's our version:

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ours:

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But in the end I'm not sure if it's really worth all the trouble, the close-up of the suns have to be tweaked individually as many sources suggests they should have a color pallette closer to this

instead of this

and the quality of this footage in the GOUT is horrible as you can see in these captures below, the wonderful DVNR-smear in full force, and the wipe to the garage at the end of the scene makes it all even more troublesome...

ours:

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ours:

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Anyway, here is a video sample of my script so far

http://www.sendspace.com/file/f8dg8o

Please, let me know what you think.

 the middle picture link isn't working..

ours:

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You sure knows how to find old abandon threads. :) These old primitive AviSynth experiments of mine is no good for any comparison. Today, I would actually say the original GOUT comes closer to the real deal than my crude tweaks except the hue on the close-up of the suns. I think with a little brightness correction of your frames, this will look great. How come this reel is so dark?

msycamore said:

You sure knows how to find old abandon threads. :) These old primitive AviSynth experiments of mine is no good for any comparison. Today, I would actually say the original GOUT comes closer to the real deal than my crude tweaks except the hue on the close-up of the suns. I think with a little brightness correction of your frames, this will look great. How come this reel is so dark?

i've been going through all 38 pages of this

forum.. and all the comparison pages too.

if we have something to compare too, why not?

all the reels are dark, and very saturated.

in fact, the whole movie is very dark.

we'll brighten it up a tiny little bit..

but we think the original movie was

meant to be darker than what most

people remembered it as being.

i like how the red in this scene:

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gives a reference for the red in the background here:

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we'll see.

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No, I actually thinks the examples you posted here: http://originaltrilogy.com/forum/topic.cfm/Star-Wars-Colortiming-Cinematography-was-What-changes-was-done-to-STAR-WARS-in-93/post/567965/#TopicPost567965

comes pretty close.

Yeah but I believe you got the brightness quite right, TServo. Here's an example.

that brightened picture

does look more natural

to me also.

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here are the revised v2 versions:

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Just because a telecined capture has a particular brightness and color palette doesn't mean that is how it would look when projected.  It is really hard to set the white balance and aperture during capture, and almost always needs some tweaking in post.

Never mind.  I didn't like the stills at first from your revised version but I found it looks better in motion.

bkev said:

Never mind.  I didn't like the stills at first from your revised version but I found it looks better in motion.

 you still get a good idea of it

from the stills though.

the scenes do look better in motion.

but don't all of them?! sometime the

photography and cinematography do

stand out even in the stills to me.

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