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The only thing I found is this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZQW0bUbQMw

They just used the old HD masters for Temple and Crusade, didn't they? So I guess they decided to do a full restoration of the most important Indy film, which included restoring the color timing and then they just left the others alone. I don't think the studios really scrutinize this stuff as much as the fans do.

OK. First, TServo, I had the same problem when I switched to a new laptop and I ended up getting an external monitor to be able to work on colors, because no matter what adjustments I did, I couldn't get the colors to look right on the laptop's monitor.

And now, the x-mas release is becoming increasingly unlikely, because I'm having some trouble with my computer and will probably need to reinstall Windows and there's no way I'd have time to do that before x-mas. No matter what I try, no matter what codec I use, I keep getting these rendering errors when rendering AVI:

They appear randomly in different frames on every render even when using the same settings.

On a different note, I've recently seen something that made me rethink the Obi-Wan scene (many of you will know what) and I decided to start from scratch on it. Here's the result:

http://uloz.to/xU1NYB4/ben-new-compar-mp4

You can see the encoding errors appear in the recently rendered v2.1 footage in this video as well.

Well, the comparison of BD vs DVD color timing of Raiders bears a striking resemblance to the comparison of DVD/BD vs OOT color timing of Star Wars, so my guess would be that the DVD of Raiders fell victim to the same trend of giving old movies a more modern look; except unlike Lucas, Spielberg came back to his senses when it came time for the BD release. This is only supported by Spielberg's recent comments about regretting altering his films and his decision to release only the theatrical version of E.T. on BD.

see you auntie said:

And if the blu-ray colour timing is indeed the way it always was, how did they mess up the DVD release so badly? If you're going to go to the effort and 'fix' the film by removing production errors you think you'd spend at least a moment going hey the colour timing is completely different from the original film but let's digitally remove a wire that no one ever notices.

Really? Have you seen the Star Wars DVDs?

No, it was always blue. The only official release where it isn't blue is the BD.

1) I don't know for sure. Or else I don't remember. I always watch the section of the film I want to work on and I always notice something I want to tweak.

2) Not sure yet either.

3) I just started my postgraduate course this year, so y finals won't be until next year. I'm just starting the normal end of semester exams though, which is holding the work on SW back quite a bit.

That's what I think too. In the DVD (and consequently HDTV) color timing, many scenes undoubtedly look more natural/neutral, or real-world-like if you want, but that may not have been the original artistic intent.

Thanks :-)

Here's the video as promised:

http://uloz.to/xrD8mn2/sabre-sample-mp4

Yes, I'm very happy to say that I managed to find color settings that bring the sabre super close to how it looks on the IB print without affecting the rest of the colors in a negative way - in fact the rest of the colors in that scene is now closer to the IB Print as well. I'll post a comparison video of the whole scene tomorrow.

Here's another little peak at v2.1. I'm hoping I might be able to do the same with Obi-Wan's sabre but I can't be sure until I try and I'm too tired to do it now.

Here's another thingy for you guys to check out:

http://uloz.to/xNSv6PJ/robot-v2-1-new-sample-mp4

I've warred with this shot for like ever and I've redone it at least six time and it's still not 100% but it's pretty damn close :-)

It's actually kind of funny that this seemingly not as invasive change gave me such hell to undo but when you look at the shot, it was probably shot with a handheld camera, so there's constant minute camera movement and there are a lot of things constantly moving through the frame. Plus it has a lot of gate weave on the GOUT DVD.

They all show as online in JDownloader.

They're all in one thread on teh.

That would actually be pretty awesome, but it would have to be the original rubber puppets or no dice :-D

Currently CS5.5, but the older versions could do it as well.

That's an interesting piece of software but After Effects already generates filmgrain very faithfully. It even has different presets that simulate the most common kinds of film stock.

Check this out:

I'm not sure what exactly you mean. I always said I'd leave the wipes, because they don't really change anything and recreating them faithfully would require an original source, which at this point would mean the GOUT and from what I can tell, there isn't really any significant drop in quality during wipes on the IB print, except maybe a little more dirt, which would get cleaned up in a digital restoration anyway.

@poita: The most current version to date is v2.0 but v 2.1 will be coming out soon, although I'd advice those who wanted to use it as x-mas presents to reconsider - it's still the plan to have it out before x-mas but I'm not 100% sure I'll be able to hold to it - I have a lot of schoolwork to do before the end of semester, so I'm finding it hard to find the time to work on this.

This is from ROTJ...

And yes, it is absolutely off topic in this thread. Try here:
http://originaltrilogy.com/forum/topic.cfm/General-Star-Wars-Random-Thoughts-Thread/topic/12545/

Edit: Sorry, I didn't realize you meant the guy in the background of the TPM Jabba picture. But it was still a bit off topic :-)

Well, all I know is, that on the IB print scan, there's no trace of those specular highlights in this shot.

I used quite a few different filters on that image. I hope it's clear all those images are the same blurry image and the left and right one represent two different approaches of dealing with the blurriness.

As to the Qui-Gon picture, yes I did that in photoshop but it could just as easily be done in After Effects or probably even avisynth.

Check this out:

The thing is that for theatrical prints, it didn't really matter, as those were intended to be trashed/destroyed after the theatrical run anyway. The sad thing is that they actually used this unstable stock for the OCN and IPs as well.

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=mkv+to+dvd

Seriously...

No - the whole sky is put in from a 35mm scan but the entire ground section is one piece.