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towne32 said:

dahmage said:

oh man, that bluray looks so terrible, and your regrades so wonderful!

Just to nitpick, haven’t we clarified that the blu-ray always looks much more purple and terrible once the frames have been processed in any way? I mean, they still have crappy blue-ish grading, and Dre’s is a million times better. But it doesn’t look as bad as the frame grabs often suggest.

I forget who finally worked this out. Williarob or Neverar maybe? It unfortunately gives a little bit of credit to the pro-SE/PT trolls who have claimed, in the past, that our comparisons exaggerate the BD’s flaws.

Gonna test your theory and pop in the blu ray tonight on the plasma, and find this frame of Owen and see how it looks.

Mind blowing, Adywan. Mind blowing.

Yeah, it’s finally done and rendered as of 2 hours ago.

Now all that’s left is uploading the final pieces for assembly.

Not sure I understand… you’re putting the reels together in the cloud?

Laserschwert said:

I guess this counts down to -I and then has Adywan tear down his mask and reveal it’s been Negative1 all these years.

You win the internet for the day sir!

jimbotron235 said:
The Fox logo and title cards suffer from very low bitrate. It’s as low as 2Mbps at some moments, causing some macroblocking artifacts. The picture does get much much better, especially when it gets to Hoth. Is there a reason the video bitrate is much lower than version 1?

V2 has all the Despecialized audio tracks, plus fitted for a 25gb blu ray. So the video encode is quite a bit smaller than version 1. Side by side I didn’t notice much of a difference though.

Should we incorporate this video into the fan edit?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gPjuJMthyhU

Edit: Wow… so stunning it killed the thread!

bkev said:

Hey folks–hate to be a bother, but I am wondering if v2 has yet to have a public release! Went to the internal organ and had no luck finding it there. Please PM me if it’s available. Thanks in advance.

PM sent!

bkev said:

Hey folks–hate to be a bother, but I am wondering if v2 has yet to have a public release! Went to the internal organ and had no luck finding it there. Please PM me if it’s available. Thanks in advance.

PM sent!

TV’s Frink said:

Maybe you could remind him several times a day.

Frink doesn’t just feed the trolls, he gives them fine chocolate.

An awkward hug to make you feel better Neverar:

dahmage said:

TV’s Frink said:

I already know how those posts turn out.

only if you have one of those fancy time machines with extra memory retention. otherwise you travel back in time, but don’t remember anything from the future. basically, time travel is real, we all already traveled back in time, that is why we are the only sentient beings around. but we all made a huge mistake and traveled economy - so no memory retention. we don’t even know that we are from the future.

OMG! **Spoiler alert: Most homeless people on the street are time travelers from the future. And the sad irony is, all of them went back and prevented major catastrophes before their memory faded.

DrDre said:

…and another shot from the Luke meets Obi-Wan sequence:

Bluray:

Bluray regraded:

I can remember back when you first started what a struggle this shot was. Thanks for sharing this journey with us Dr. Dre!

DrDre said:

I’m seriously considering finishing this regrade, once project-X is done. Would there be an interest in yet another regrade?

On another note, the various technicolor print scans, and the frames themselves show slight, but consistent color imbalances between shots. Should these be kept for a regrade? What are your opinions on the subject?

My vote: FIX THEM, PLEASE. Especially for the blu ray release which is after all “modern special edition with extra graphix”. 😃 (I can handle the Episode 4 additions… at least it doesn’t have Vader going “NOOOOOO… NOOO!” D&SF(SD&(&(!)

Adywan… if there’s going to be a commentary track, I would love to hear the “original wampa audio”… hearing a woman’s voice going “RAWR!!! I EAT YOU LUKE, DIE!” would simply be awesome.

g-force said:

DrDre said:

Here’s a shot from the Tarkin/Leia confontation:

Why does this shot stick out so much from the rest? I think all the others look just amazing, but this one just seems wrong?

Stronger “sepia” tint in the skin tones.

TV’s Frink said:

Lol?

You win the internet for the day sir.

DrDre said:

UnitéD2 said:

The red pannels in the Death Star control room seem to be less orange than what we often see in other technicolor corrections.

Indeed, and considering the green shift in the print it’s even less orange when corrected.

It’s partially a saturation difference. Pulling those dark greens a bit and bumping the sat:
(I think this is a bit too hot, but just showing how the red panels change a lot)

Laserschwert said:

Any chance for putting up a non-degrained version?

No.

Just thought I’d show some comparison photos between the original Grindhouse release and this shot by shot CC and denoise.

nightstalkerpoet said:

I would actually really like to see examples of this used on ESB Grindhouse - perhaps with enough regraded shots the color could be lured out.

Ouch, LOL.

DrDre said:

Here’s the double sunset, and a lightsaber shot, both of which are less than ideal shots 😉.

Bluray:

Bluray regraded by the NeverarBot:

I think those regraded colors are the reason Neverargreat put the 77 sabers back in though, no?

Swazzy said:

White balanced, for your consideration:

It’s like… unfiltered principle photography… really nice white balance there Swazzy.

DrDre said:

More coming soon…

Can’t wait! 😃

Swazzy said:

…and NO questions asked.