Thundercracker

You_Too, I think those newest shots look fantastic! Like others said they may be pushing the boundaries of the white levels a bit but that doesn't really bother me, they still look very nice.

Could these settings be used on the dvd's or HD broadcasts with similar effect or would they require their own tweaking? I'd really like to test these out on the BD's but I don't have BD drive on my PC.

That's pretty cool getting a method to automate the PureImage program. I've been experimenting with that software for a long while now. It does give some nice results for some shots but also less than stellar results for others. Really depends on how good the source is you want to match and how bad the color cast is in the SE. I've used filmstrips saved as .png's to get whole shots matched quickly.

I also have experimented with Matlab's autocolor scripts that Laserman posted ages ago in one of the other color correction threads. This method produces some very nice results but is not without its own set issues. I haven't found a way to apply it to video clips. And using is frame by frame usually produces color shift/flicker during playback. Also if the sources are really different from one another, noise will be introduced as well.

Here's some results from the Matlab code. As you can see in the sunset shots a lot of noise and missing pixels are introduced. The algorithm also brightens the image to GOUT levels.

And below are some of the Matlab color results but combined with the SE04's luma:

solo21 posted a script that looked pretty good in this thread here.

Here ya go:

http://avisynth.org/warpenterprises/files/colourlike_25_dll_20050825.zip

There's no separate plugin for Polarcolourlike. You just call it with Polarcolourlike() or WritePolarHistogram() to generate the histogram.

I'm a bit confused on all these HD sources. So if one wanted to use an HD source for a project would the German rips be the best? That seems to be the case but I just want to make sure.

Has anyone tried this avisynth plugin: http://avisynth.org/vcmohan/HistogramAdjust/HistogramAdjust.html before?

Adjusts the histogram of a frame by either equalizing it or by matching with histogram of another image, or with given histogram table of values.

Orinoco_Womble, I did try the PureImage program on the shots Moth3r posted but they didn't come out well at all.

I found a somewhat faster way of applying this to a sequence of images so I've been experimenting with this quite a bit. Here's a couple more clips:

Han-Rebel Base

http://www.sendspace.com/file/781nbm

Luke/Taun-Taun

http://www.sendspace.com/file/jie7is

I don't think it's perfect but it's definitely the closest color matcher I've seen so far. Not all the shots I've tried so far have come out great but I think's that due more to the gout quality. For example, spaces scenes don't come out well at all and the snow scenes aren't that great either or are inconsistent.

Okay, edited in the GOUT images to previous post. Middle image is the GOUT. Although I didn't do it for the images above, a levels adustment also helps the color matched images since they can be a bit washed out.

Sorry about the framerate on the clip.

I decided to try out the demo for the PureImage program and I must say I am very impressed with the results. It's pretty accurate. Not sure how it could be applied for video, I tried a couple ideas but it didn't work out.

It would be great if this could be used somehow. I know color correcting manually on my project continually makes me want to pull my hair out.

Anyone have any suggestions on what source in terms of color would be best to test out besides the GOUT?

Here's a couple random frames using the GOUT as reference (Top is SE, Middle is GOUT, Bottom is Adjusted):

And here's a short clip by recoloring and saving each frame then converting the sequence to avi (which is very time consuming).

http://www.sendspace.com/file/fj56gu