The problem is that there’s too much greens and blues in the latter half of the artoo canyon sequence as well as the contrast and black levels being slightly off. Look at the last 5 screenshots from the sequence to see what I’m talking about. Up until we see the sandcrawler.
I corrected it by fixing black levels and contrast and adding more red to the shots that needed it. Sequence flows much better in terms of color now.
http://i.imgur.com/bczf7wR.png Something is wrong here. The black bars are red and so are the shadows.
http://i.imgur.com/AnKI3QF.png nice!
The battle of Yavin looks really nice and consistent. Did you use my version as a basis for the whole film from that point on?
I actually already corrected that x wing shot. I think I accidentally flubbed with the settings before exporting and that’s why its all red. Its been fixed and I’ll post a screenshot when the new version is rendered.
Yes the battle of Yavin was sourced entirely from your version.
What’s with the greenish patch on the right here?
Ol’ George has the GOUT, I see.
That’s in 2.6. I tried minimizing it but I couldn’t find a way to without making the image practically monochrome.
That’s a raw 2.5 shot. Here’s the same frame from the BD http://i.imgur.com/6oRTm8e.jpg . So you can see where that color comes from. Here’s the frame in SSE: http://i.imgur.com/9WnMAFx.jpg
edit: misremembered something.
So I’ve put off doing my final render to do one more pass of a look through for the color. Most of the corrected shots I am very happy with. The only sequence which has been causing me alot of trouble pretty much since color correction began is Mos Eisley. Originally I chose my color corrected version of this sequence over towne32’s. It was a close call but it came down to me liking the sky and skin tones slightly better in my version. I’ve since changed my tune. I feel there is quite a but too much red in towne32’s version (which I tried to get rid of/minimize but couldn’t manage to without introducing distracting color anomalies), but nonetheless I like the overall quality of 2.6 better, with the exception of one shot, which I’ll get to in a sec. And the slightly too red image of 2.6 is far less distracting to me than the too yellow 2.5. In context, your brain adjusts to it and it doesn’t look weird.
Therefore, I have reverted the mos eisley sequence to just the standard 2.6. Only two shots are different:
R2 canyon shots have been fixed and look alot better now.
Final render of 81 version has started and should be done tonight. Final render of 77 version should be finished tomorrow.
The problem with the weird green cast on the Death Star can easily be fixed with the ColorCorrect tool. I’ve checked the Tech IB scan, and it’s not there at all, so it’s definitely an anomaly of the bluray that is exacerbated by manual curves adjustment.
Darth Lucas:
Darth Lucas with correction:
Here’s the color correction model I used:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B8_LYKyZDiajSG5Yd2MtVFkyc2s/view?usp=sharing
Just export the frames of that shot to an image sequence with Virtualdub. Import the color correction model into the tool, and correct the frames.
Well, the anomaly is there on the blu-ray. But the curve adjustments do bring it out. It’s probably especially well hidden on the blu-ray because it’s so damn dark. 😃
Either way, nice work Dre.
I’m giving the entire battle of Yavin another pass. Not going to release it as 2.6 related anything, because the goal of that was really not to stray too far from Harmy’s look. But DL’s consistent (though very grey) look is nice, so I’m shooting for something similar just to see how it goes.
Well, the anomaly is there on the blu-ray. But the curve adjustments do bring it out. It’s probably especially well hidden on the blu-ray because it’s so damn dark. 😃
Either way, nice work Dre.
I’m giving the entire battle of Yavin another pass. Not going to release it as 2.6 related anything, because the goal of that was really not to stray too far from Harmy’s look. But DL’s consistent (though very grey) look is nice, so I’m shooting for something similar just to see how it goes.
Yeah I know it’s a bit grey for some peoples taste. I personally feel that’s how it’s supposed to look though. It just looks right to my eyes. Probably not perfectly accurate, but it just feels right you know? I left a subtle cyan in the shadows but more of the natural blueish cyan you would expect from photographing a mostly grey model against blue screen. Like I said before I used some of the videos from mike verta as reference for certain shots and then corrected the rest to match.
Well, the anomaly is there on the blu-ray. But the curve adjustments do bring it out. It’s probably especially well hidden on the blu-ray because it’s so damn dark. 😃
Either way, nice work Dre.
I’m giving the entire battle of Yavin another pass. Not going to release it as 2.6 related anything, because the goal of that was really not to stray too far from Harmy’s look. But DL’s consistent (though very grey) look is nice, so I’m shooting for something similar just to see how it goes.
Yeah I know it’s a bit grey for some peoples taste. I personally feel that’s how it’s supposed to look though. It just looks right to my eyes. Probably not perfectly accurate, but it just feels right you know? I left a subtle cyan in the shadows but more of the natural blueish cyan you would expect from photographing a mostly grey model against blue screen. Like I said before I used some of the videos from mike verta as reference for certain shots and then corrected the rest to match.
I made sure to keep the skin tones and the Reds of the x wings mostly untouched though.
(Whoops. That was supposed to be an edit of the post, but I hit quote by mistake.)
Darth Lucas said:
I made sure to keep the skin tones and the Reds of the x wings mostly untouched though.(Whoops. That was supposed to be an edit of the post, but I hit quote by mistake.)
Yeah, the main shots that you would be adjusting then would be the shots that are purely model based, in or above the trench. And one concern there would be taking green away from the lasers.
Anyway, whatever the ‘right’ vs. ‘wrong’ color debate may suggest, I understand where you’re coming from appreciating the greyer values, having grown up with the grey Death Star on VHS and in plenty of video games.
Yeah. It’s s controversial approach, but I tend to go for what feels right, rather than what may be strictly accurate. Probably influenced by the colors in the VHS sets I grew up with.
For instance, even though I’ve personally visited the part of Death Valley that the artoo canyon sequence was shot and I know the rocks aren’t very red, the VHS set I grew up with had the sequence looking pretty red in color, so it just felt right to make the rocks a somewhat dark red color. I have no idea if that’s accurate to the original colors, but it feels right.
I did run into a couple issues in a select few shots with bringing down the green lasers, which was easily fixed by slightly boosting the green. I lucked out with boosting the green slightly not introducing color anomalies like I thought it might.
Sounds interesting…Looking forward to some more comparison pictures and updates.
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Been dealing with some computer problems. Nothing major, but things have slowed a little as a result. Happy I had enough foresight to back everything up.
Everything should be back on track by the weekend.
Been making progress. I’m basically at the point now where all I’m waiting for is for towne32 to finish v2.65 or v2.7 or whatever he’s calling it haha. Then I just need to encode each version (1977 and 1981) and plug them into the disc.
Now that the subtitle decisions seem to be made, all I need to do is have you guys review on final test encode and then I’ll make the master encode.
I’ll be more than happy to take a look when you’ve got it encoded 😃
Also, fwiw, I was looking at your color changes again. I know you prefer the desaturated look, but I would recommend reverting your changes for the Fox logo, since Harmy said that for his ESB 2.5 it will be consistent with his SW 2.5 (and therefore 2.6). And I don’t know if you were planning on modifying ESB. Also, you timed the Long Time Ago card to match RoTJ and the SE/TFA, but I think SW (and ESB?) is the darker blue.
I actually timed both the Fox logo and the “a long time ago” card to Mike Verta’s screenshots. I will probably revert the fox logo back since I like the other look better and only matched it originally as an exercise, but I’m gonna keep the “a long time ago” card.
Ever so slightly off topic, I like things to match :p so I created a bluray cover for the soon to be relased The Force Awakens bluray to match look of the set.
Nice! Really looking forward to this!
Is there anyone who can convert an .srt file to an Encore txt file? There are programs for mac that can do it, but I’m not really willing to shell out the cash for them and I’ve yet to find any freeware.
Try making the covers for the Ewok Adventures
The only covers I’ll be making are those which pertain to this project. Given that the Ewok Adventures will eventually be a bonus feature on ROTJ, it would be pointless to make separate covers for them.
the holiday special??
