DrDre

emanswfan said:

Here is softer grain, along with colors that are a bit closer to what I see in the print caps above.

Amazing!

yotsuya said:

Maaga said:
There also seems to be a lack of rich blue that is suddenly corrected. Palpatine’s outfit turns really blue (and I love it) in one shot but that disappears in the next. I also miss the rich blue the royal guards had.

I had the chance to go to the Star Wars costume exhibit. None of the costumes for TPM had rich blues in them. Palaptine’s was dark turquoise and purple, and the guards were very dark. I too remember seeing TPM where it had very rich blues, but that doesn’t appear to be accurate to the actual film. And from the way the movie was processed, the Blu-ray version is probably more accurate to what was shot than whatever film print we saw in 1999. I think I was at a 70 mm premier. But the costumes definitely had no bright blues. The handmaiden costumes on the other hand were very intense orange and red. And that does show up in many shots. But I spent countless hours trying to get the blues I remembered until I actually saw the costumes in person and found out that there was no such blue in them.

Once a film has been color timed, the costumes don’t have to look like they did originally. In ANH the relatively warm color grading made the rebel outfits on Tantive IV almost gray, whereas they were quite blue in reality. So, the rich blues are likely accurate to the film, even if the colors differ from the actual costumes.

This is all looking really impressive! Very much looking forward to watching this. 😃

Tantive3+1 said:

I feel that the room in this shot here should be more white
Filmized

Recolored

No, I think the colors here are very accurate to the original coloring. This room was never white:

ray_afraid said:

I’ve searched 'til My Spleen is sore, but can’t find…
What am I missing?

I don’t think it’s on My Spleen yet. For more info, please visit TheStarWarsTrilogy forum.

CatBus said:

Excellent work, Dre. 4K83 badly needed this. Are you working on any other color correction projects now? If not, could I interest you in color correcting the UHD’s?

Thanks! 😃 I have been working on some global corrections for the UHD’s, but I think a shot by shot is in order!

emanswfan said:

Here’s some test footage from TPM.

https://mega.nz/#!qLxAzCYb!0WnWHc9JtCHjiQIYMe1NZ00JCbKKGfI5C3OkwFXYT8g

This doesn’t have the sharpening/deblocking filter on it as that is a shot by shot process and is VERY resource intensive, and so is reserved for screenshots for now.

I redid the grading again: added a little blue and pink, desaturated the colors a bit. Increased grain and added a bit of flicker.

Much like the previous screenshots, these are first dips into working from the new 4K Blu-ray, so feedback is very much welcome.

I did look at the trailer posted earlier, and I did end up creating a look nearly identical, but I thought it looked too blue and desaturated and was really wondering if that was an accurate color corrected view of the trailer print. Still I pushed a little bit closer to what the colors looked like there, but still kept warmth.

That looks excellent! The colors are close to perfect, very filmic! Perhaps a tiny bit more shadow detail.

The reel by reel color grading has been released under the name 4K83 v1.6. Here are the screenshots for the final version:

Here’s a final update for reel 7:

Here’s reel 7:

Here’s an update for reel 5, and 6:

Here’s the first pass for reel 6:

Here’s an update for reel 4, and a first pass for the redone reel 5:

Here’s the first pass on the redone reel 4:

act on instinct said:

My background has more to do with photos and I would agree there’s levels of pop you would want to avoid for a video grade you would push in a photo edit. Also should be mindful of losing detail, the highlight on Padme’s right sleeve by comparison.

Also couldn’t help myself and made another mix plus a black and white version just for fun.

Very nice!!!

For this color grading I quite deliberately didn’t want the colors to “pop”, since most like Broom Kid, who have seen Jedi on the bog screen have stated, that it always seemed a little duller and flatter than the other two films in the trilogy. Consequently I’ve attempted to go for a film like color grading with the extra caveat, that Jedi wasn’t that vibrant to begin with. I’ve done another pass on reels 2 and 3

Here’s the redone reel 3:

I’ve warmed up reel 2 a bit:

Thanks everyone! 😃 I’m not entirely happy with reels 3-5, so I will be re-doing those.

Thanks everyone! 😃

Here’s an update for reels 3 and 5, that removes the green in the shadows:

Here’s reel 4 and 5:

Maaga said:

benduwan said:

DrDre said:

An alternative color grading:

great.
like this.

I really don’t.

Well, what looks good as a single frame often is much too bright, contrasty, and saturated when seen in motion. Most of us grade a film like we would a photograph. I’ve been guilty of it myself. Cinematic color grading generally leads to much less vibrant imagery, and while it may seem lackluster as a still, generally looks far more natural in motion:

act on instinct said:

I’d punch in the contrast more for a more classic film look but it really looks in good shape and gives me hope for the amount of latitude there is to alter the look, the original sources are fairly neutral being such early digital.

I think a classic film would look more like this:

The old film prints really were not that bright and vibrant, with technicolor being the notable exception in the vibrancy department.

Here are reels 2, and 3: