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I also noticed a bit of corruption at the end with the Falcon and further on during the end credits as well.

As this is being looked into, would it perhaps be possible to do a regrade and gamma correction as well, while you guys are at it?

I did a few tweaks in ffdshow using MPC-HC (see above) and that already improved quite a bit, I thought...

I'm sure there's a lot more detail to be pulled out of those scans...

I love that you guys are doing this. Thanks for all the effort you guys put into this, It must have been a lot!

I like how you can see all the original matte lines around the spaceships. I also noticed a big grey square around the probe going to Hoth in the opening scene. I can't remember seeing those on the SE, but that's how I remember seeing them on VHS.

Although the movie still seemed a bit dark and reddish to me, I was able to correct this a bit in ffdshow, in Picture Properties by taking out a bit of red(0,89) and a tiny bit of green(0,93)

gamma correction: 1,28

Saturation: 75

I turned on Levels, chose Mode: Ylevel'sG, Force RGB conversion, Input: black to 19, Gamma correction: 1,11

Edit:I was screwing around. I found a much simpler solution, which works better and is easier on the cpu.

Picture Properties: RGB: (0,85) (1) (0,97)

Levels: Gamma correction: (1,65) Mode: original and everything else unchecked.

I also turned on a tiny bit of sharpening, using just the default settings.

The colors now seem a bit more balanced and less muddled and the picture seems to be a lot clearer (at least to me, on my laptop and disregarding the obvious dust and scratches, off course)

I your computer is fast enough, you could also turn on a bit of chroma noise reduction. Edit: actually, the movie looks pretty fine without it.

However, my laptop doesn't seem quite capable of running all these adjustments in real time, unfortunately. Any chance of doing a regrade?

Anyway, thanks for making Star Wars awesome again!