Darth Lucas

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.

I’m re-rendering with new black bars. Also fixed a couple color issues I hadn’t previously noticed with the latter half of the artoo canyon sequence.

That’s an abnormality from the color correction. However, I did fix the contrast so that on a properly calibrated monitor/tv, it should appear as black as the rest of the film. I had to drastically increase the brightness on my screen just to see it.

Is anybody else seeing a difference? It’s entirely possible my eyes or screen are to blame in which case I’ll re-encode with new black bars across the whole film just to be safe, but I’m fairly certain it shouldn’t be visible on a properly calibrated monitor.

Here are some frames from scenes regraded by me. There’s alot of them so I’d rather not do screenshot comparisons here. Feel free to pull up 2.5 or 2.6 on you computer and scrub to that point in the film if you want to see the difference.

Apologies if the quality of the images isn’t top notch. I just scrubbed through the movie and used the screenshot feature on my laptop.

http://imgur.com/a/X04mf

towne32 said:

Darth Lucas said:

I wasn’t planning on it originally, but I knew it would bother me if I didn’t, so I regraded the entirety of the Battle of Yavin sequence to drastically reduce the over-cyan tint on Despecialized. I love the tech colors, until they start to be distracting and take me out of the film, which those overemphasized cyans in the climax of the film definitely do. A few of these shots were regraded using videos posted by Mike Verta as reference, and surrounding footage was graded to match. Most of it is nothing crazy, just reducing the cyan color shift and making the image look more natural.

Cool. I considered doing similar but realized I could end up introducing more problems than I solved. So I went with using a lot of 97 ReSp shots which were a little more neutral, but not totally there. And then the most saturated were some of the ones taken care of by the SSE. But there’s definitely more that could be done, so I’ll be happy to see yours.

I wanted to try and accomplish the look I wanted purely through curves adjustments, but the grading on DeEd is just too extreme to get good results purely with that, so in the end I ended up using a combination of light curves adjustments along with saturation adjustments to certain color channels. I try not to mess around with saturation if I can avoid it, but in this instance it was the only way to get the look I wanted based partially on mvertas videos, but nonetheless I feel like I got some really pleasing results. I’ll see about posting some frames later.

2.6 is the base. Here is a list of the scenes/sequences that are regraded by me.

Regraded scenes/sequences:
(completely making up scene names here but u get the gist im sure haha)

R2 and Jawas in the canyon

Inside the sandcrawler

Selling droids to Lars family

Sandpeople attack Luke/Ben’s intro

Dead Jawas - Crispy aunt and uncle

Imperial meeting (“I find your lack of faith disturbing”)

Mos Eisley entrance

A couple shots here and there inside the death star

Battle of Yavin

I wasn’t planning on it originally, but I knew it would bother me if I didn’t, so I regraded the entirety of the Battle of Yavin sequence to drastically reduce the over-cyan tint on Despecialized. I love the tech colors, until they start to be distracting and take me out of the film, which those overemphasized cyans in the climax of the film definitely do. A few of these shots were regraded using videos posted by Mike Verta as reference, and surrounding footage was graded to match. Most of it is nothing crazy, just reducing the cyan color shift and making the image look more natural.

Final render of the 1981 Re-Release version is finished and I’m currently rendering the 1977 version. In about three hours I’ll have both final versions of the film ready to bring into Encore.

towne32 said:

you can also find some really fascinating opinions we all had about slightly rounded corners in film

Oh lord thanks for reminding me of that.

Looks pretty good. But too much letterboxing for a 2.35:1 aspect ratio film.

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AntcuFaalb said:

clutchins said:

Who has poita designated to work on them?

I’ve put a team together. We’re still working out the details.

Not a big fan of the jar jar redub. It’s just ass strange and off-putting as in the theatrical release to me. Even moreso since his lips don’t match his words. Regardless, I’m interested to see what you do here.

Seems that first youtube link was already taken down. Use vimeo for previews like that.

I’ve never tried my hand at PFClean, but I could maybe attempt to learn. But I consider myself to be very skilled with Photoshop (I use it professionally on a day to day basis) so I’d be more than willing to help out with that stuff.

Sorry there hasn’t been any progress on this for the last week or so guys. There have been some things going on in my personal life that have kept me busy so I’ve only been able to work on this a few minutes at a time when I have a little time to spare. Things should pick up soon.

JawsTDS said:

I’m late to the game; I did see it opening night, and five subsequent times but I stayed offline to try and make my own opinion of what I saw.

My first “nitpick” during opening night was that the Star Wars theme sounded different. Of course, this is due to another orchestra taking over for the LSO. I was also surprised, yet not surprised, that they used the SE “A long time ago…” style and font. Additionally, Abrams broke the traditional “wide ending shot” rule, which was offsetting at first. Aaaaand I was disappointed that the iconic shot of Ren igniting his lightsabre was cut out. The off-screen version was very lame.

Besides those technical bits, it was truly something. I laughed, I cried (mainly during the opening crawl – how embarrassing!), I cheered. Being the first STAR WARS film I have even seen in theaters, I have never experienced anything like this before. I wish I could relive the opening night again. The crowd was so into it, especially when the Falcon was shown. I recall everyone going nuts over Leia and 3PO, rather than Han and Chewie – odd. Overall, it’s a competent film that has one-to-many callbacks for comfort, but has paved the way for something brilliant.

I walked out not digging it, came back loving it.

7/10 – not perfect, but is better than ROTJ, in my opinion.

Hey no shame. I cried during the opening crawl too. No idea why. I guess it just hit me for the first time that it was real and I was actually in the theater seeing a new Star Wars movie again and I was finally going to see old friends that I grew up with again (Han, Luke, and leia)

Look, if it’s someone’s first time watching, then 4,5,6 then 1,2,3.

If not, then do it whatever way sounds best to you. I try and never do the same order twice in a row. I think there’s merit in each way of viewing. My favorite is the machete order if I’m just watching by myself, but seriously it’s whatever way u wanna watch them, man.

In preparation for TFA I did them in numerical order.

I was thinking of attempting this with custom mattes as well. This is still quite a ways down the line but once I start on the bonus material disc I’ll give it a shot and let u know how it goes.

The shot of leia and r2 looks great to me. I don’t think it’s accurate, and it’s a way I’ve never seen that shot look before, but nonetheless I quite like it. It’s a very pleasing, cool look to me. But again, I doubt the accuracy of it.

pittrek said:

DrDre said:

Here are all the regraded shots in chronological order (I’ve also put them on the first page as towne23 suggested):

Looks beautiful.

Just like these 2 pics. They look great.

There is something really wrong with the walls. They basically look monochromatic, and the red light has some weird almost “pinkish” feeling.

The same corridor, the same light conditions, but it looks and feels quite different than the previous shot.

There’s something really wrong with the reds. Just look at their faces and hands. The red lights on the wall also “feel” completely wrong.

This one looks nice.

Again.

The whites are so blown up that detail from the armor and walls is getting lost. The same goes with the blacks in Vader and the soldier and their uniforms.

Looks nice.

Another example of the contrast being too high. There are no details visible in Vader’s or the soldiers costumes.

Again, detail is lost.

I don’t know why exactly but these 3 pics look like urine.

3 great looking shots.

This one needs a saturation boost.

Just like this one.

I get what you’re saying about those three tatooine shots.

However I’m not seeing any problem with saturation in any of these shots. A boost in saturation would make Luke look like a lobster.

towne32 said:

Darth Lucas said:

However looking closely, there seems to be far too much green in the stormtrooper shot as well as the Owen and 3P0 shot. Look at artoo’s dome.

At least for the trooper shot, I think this must be due to the print scan (and potentially Dre having not removed it entirely from that, whether that is right or wrong). Harmy’s shot looks the same.

I wouldn’t call it ‘far’ too much. But it’s still noticeable whereas most of the other shots have had it adjusted out more so.

I was mostly referring to the 3pO and Owen shot. I didn’t notice what was off until I looked at artoo. Even in these conditions, his dome should read as silver in color, but it appears very green.

However looking closely, there seems to be far too much green in the stormtrooper shot as well as the Owen and 3P0 shot. Look at artoo’s dome.

pittrek said:

I hate to be the one who spoils the fun, but I think the regraded pics you posted on the last 2 pages look absolutely horrible. The contrast is completely off, the Tatooine shots look like somebody pissed over them, they are desaturated, I’m sorry but the screenshots you posted on the first 4 pages looked great, but there’s something really wrong with the last ones.

But tell us how you really feel

Looks great DrDre!
Only thing is that shot of Owen and 3pO. Could be that I’m just used to seeing it a lot warmer, but it feels abnormally cool to my eyes. And maybe a tad too contrasty.