Indeed, the attempt to remove all the green was really just for fun, but there is some purpose in that all indications are that the green tint in the original Matrix film was more subtle than later installments, and the Blu-ray absolutely overdid this. So the actual look would be between this and the Blu-ray.
I just used online screencaps for this comparison, so hopefully the blu-ray will have more shadow detail.
The Oracle scene, and really any scene that was supposed to have strong greens in the original photography, was unduly affected.
http://screenshotcomparison.com/comparison/209795
I’ve managed to refine the grade somewhat, so the Oracle scene isn’t quite so red. here is what it looks like throughout:
http://screenshotcomparison.com/comparison/209792
http://screenshotcomparison.com/comparison/209793
http://screenshotcomparison.com/comparison/209794
JEDIT: Further tweaking gets it closer to the source image:
http://screenshotcomparison.com/comparison/209827
The issue was that when I applied it to almost any other scenes, it was too much. The second one looks more natural for more scenes.
My mother and grandmother both saw a UFO in West Virginia when my mother was very small, and they both still remember it. They were walking down the street one afternoon and a bright light seemed to follow them, and when they stopped at the corner and turned onto another street the light did a 90 degree turn as well. They started to get scared and run, and the light followed them, apparently disappearing before they reached home. Neither of them has any idea what it could have been.
That sounds a bit like ball lightning, which is pretty freaky and rare.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ball_lightning
It could have been that, though they are specific in that it did a 90 degree turn and followed them up the road. Perhaps it was following the power lines.
In my Star Wars project I was able to use some of the color (chroma) of 35mm sources overlaid on the blu-ray, but this requires almost frame by frame image registration to prevent misalignment due to the natural gate weave of the film. I would not recommend mixing and matching luma between sources because humans can much more easily detect luma than they can chroma, and the alignment would have to be perfect.
The channel mixer is a powerful tool, and I used that in conjunction with a curves adjustment to remove the green tint in the Blu-ray: (from the Matrix 53mm thread) http://screenshotcomparison.com/comparison/209768
My guidelines for channel mixer use are to leave the ‘constant’ values at 0, and make sure that each of the 3 channels equals 100.
Here’s a version with just a hint of the green remaining:
http://screenshotcomparison.com/comparison/209768
Just something I mocked up for fun from a previous image:
http://www.screenshotcomparison.com/comparison/209738/picture:1
This is using the same settings:
However, the scenes not set in the matrix don’t fare so well. This is probably what the film looked like before the green tint.
There are two opposing narratives concerning the firing of Comey. The Democrats claim that he fired him because he was worried that the investigation would find evidence of his collusion with Russia. The Republicans claim that he fired Comey because of various and changing reasons concerning Comey’s job performance.
I don’t find either narrative to be convincing, for several reasons.
With regards to the Democratic narrative, Trump seems all too calm (for someone who is usually animated) to be fearful of impeachment. His interviews show a man as casual with the truth as he ever was on the campaign trail, a man who should surely be more guarded in his answers if he thought that he was guilty. His tweet, that Comey should be fearful of ‘tapes’ existing of their meetings in the White House, would be childish and thuggish intimidation if it was meant in all seriousness. However, Trump may be continuing some form of personal joke in the vein of Obama wiretapping Trump Tower. In other words, ‘you’d better hope that Obama didn’t wiretap us both, or your previous boss may be in a lot of trouble’ (JEDIT: What Catbus said). This seems like the type of moronic trolling that Trump is accustomed to, and the fact that he doesn’t spell this out is potential evidence that he is slyly pushing the Democrats’ buttons at the same time as he is speaking to Comey and his base.
With regards to the Republican narrative, this was too abrupt a firing to be merely a further ‘draining of the swamp’. His attempts to spin this as such are transparent. He is clearly acting to put the chill on the Russia investigation, and he is genuinely surprised that the Democratic establishment would be angry at this, since he so blindly assumes that he is innocent. How could it be problematic to fire the man in charge of the Russia investigation if he isn’t under suspicion? He wants Russia as a friend and so he doesn’t consider that this investigation is relevant to his administration at all. This is why he abruptly fired Comey. He’s the decider, and to have an independent lawman who won’t kiss his ring is beyond offensive. I believe that Trump was acting very much as his role on The Apprentice in firing Comey, and didn’t care that it may be seen as improper.
This is an unprecedented event in our nation’s history, and a foreboding one. Trump clearly doesn’t care about democratic norms or even pretending to act like anything other than a glorified mob-boss. He thinks that he’s fabulously smart and politically savvy, and though he is neither of these things, he does have the lizardlike sense of how to manipulate large groups of people. Case in point, he did little to erode his previous support (the polls are basically unchanged in this regard), and he also made the Democratic establishment and media overreact by acting in ways that looked from their perspective like he was guilty as sin. Taking the cynical approach - and I hope I’m wrong about this - this looks like a win for him. Of course, it’s devastating for norms, democracy, bipartisanship, and anything other than Donald J Trump.
I absolutely wouldn’t want to see Porkins go either but I like where sansuni is coming from.
Behind?
Sounds like someone needs to pick up their visual scanning.
I didn’t actually notice the jump cut until it was pointed out in this thread, and since the individual asked for it to be taken out and I was already reverting other 2011 R2 changes, I figured that it wouldn’t hurt to revert this one to the 2004 broadcast version as well.
As for the sabers, the film sources that I was rotoscoping by hand had a great deal of color grain that could only be partially removed before the image quality was too greatly affected. In terms of luminosity, if you examine the Blu-ray the cores of the sabers are blown out, so they had to be reduced some way or another. Finally, the more desaturated color is representative of the original film as opposed to the saturated color used in all the other films, and I wanted to preserve this since I quite like it. 😃
Since my mom was too young to be drinking, I’m sure that’s what it was. 😉
More here:
https://goldseven.wordpress.com/2016/01/24/the-force-its-calling-to-you/
There wasn’t anything but the video to respond to, other than your opinion. I apologize if you got the impression it was directed at you.
She handled it as well as could be expected, but her defense was an ad hominem, and I thought I’d point that out.
I was referring to Sarah Sanders making a Tu Quoque fallacy with regards to the reporter’s questions.
“You Want To Create A False Narrative” Sarah Sanders Destroys Reporter Over Trump Firing James Comey.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gaEUC1wrFrg
I think Deputy Press Secretary Sarah Sanders is my new hero.
Specifically:
https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&q=star wars unaltered trilogy
Some info on when people have searched for ‘Star Wars unaltered trilogy’.
In short, there were small spikes in 2006 and 2011, then people cared a whole lot right when TFA came out, then cared a bit less when Rogue One came out.
So I’d say it’s obviously a good idea to create a stir when it coincides with a major movie release or a blu-ray/4K release of the OT.
Aliens could also be so advanced, the way they communicate is way beyond anything we’ve even thought of yet. It would be like trying to pick up color tv signals on an AM radio.
They also could be so far above us, we’re not considered worth talking to, if they notice us at all.
This is my suspicion. I think that many species either leapfrog over long-distance electromagnetic communication for more advanced science, or they are ‘tuned in’ to something more like telepathy. But that would get into philosophical theory of mind, and this is a UFO thread 😉
Don’t worry about it, at the end of the day everything’s an aesthetic choice and I’ve found that any number of different gradings can look good for a shot. Eventually you just have to choose one and stick to it 😉
My mother and grandmother both saw a UFO in West Virginia when my mother was very small, and they both still remember it. They were walking down the street one afternoon and a bright light seemed to follow them, and when they stopped at the corner and turned onto another street the light did a 90 degree turn as well. They started to get scared and run, and the light followed them, apparently disappearing before they reached home. Neither of them has any idea what it could have been.
I think there’s some compelling evidence that alien life has visited this planet, yet the sheer number of faked sightings and simple public incredulity is enough to lead most people to conclude that it hasn’t happened. Many governments have half-admitted that strange things are going on in the skies, but nobody wants to put their reputation on the line or provide the extraordinary amount of evidence required to back up such an extraordinary claim. It is often covered-up, compartmentalized, and eventually forgotten.
Now I don’t necessarily think that alien life traversed the cosmos and just so happened to land on Earth. There’s a lot about science and consciousness that we don’t know. I expect that most sightings are caused by natural atmospheric phenomena, hallucinations, and human technology. For the few that remain, I suspect that they may be alien in origin.
Of course, SETI and other programs have had very little success in this department. There has to be a reason that we haven’t received any response to our messages, and my theory is that life doesn’t exist for very long in any form resembling that of humans. If it did, and sentient life forms such as humans existed in large quantities and for long periods of time, one would expect the cosmos to be filled with alien spaceships and civilizations contacting each other with radio and visible light radiation.
Furthermore, this should be taken into account. In short, it is more likely that we are, by number, a common type of alien on an uncommonly large world. The analogy used is one of countries on Earth. If we were to randomly be assigned a country of origin, we would likely be born in China or India, since they have high populations. Moreover, since most people on Earth originate on those two countries, these countries must be large enough to support such a large population. Thus, our planet is likely to be larger and more populous than average, with most planets supporting intelligent life being smaller and less populous. Earth is essentially the China of the cosmos, with most planets being like Denmark or Sweden. Since the gravity of those planets is lessened, the intelligent life would on average be larger. Also, and this is only my speculation, since there is decreased gravity, any smaller planet with an atmosphere would have more particulate matter in that atmosphere, leading to much greater cloud cover. Such species wouldn’t be able to search the heavens as easily as we do, so most of the galactic exploration is done by a relatively small number of large planets with much smaller than average aliens. There may be a reason why the popular conception of an alien is of a small humanoid with a large braincase.
Anyway, those are my rambling and speculative thoughts on the subject. 😃
What!
I genuinely liked the green in the Falcon!
Ah well. I’m sure you did a good job regardless 😃
I suppose this video should be titled ‘history of the hole world’, i guess in keeping with this thread, but I like it anyway: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xuCn8ux2gbs
I’m glad there isn’t an ongoing Trump/Russia investigation or this firing would look reaaaaalllly suspicious.
I think George has one of the most finely attuned senses of cultural resonance of any living director, but he also knows that he is a terrible writer. In the case of Star Wars he labored for years trying to write a script capable of sustaining his brilliant cross-cultural archetypes, and with the help of his writer friends he managed it…twice. However, he eventually became too prideful to admit his shortcomings, and so when it came time to write the prequels they had to be HIS prequels. The thematic and symbolic elements are there, and are as strong as they ever were in Star Wars, but the scripts failed to allow these symbols to coalesce into working films.