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- #947163
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- kk650's Star Wars Saga: Regraded and Semi-Specialized (Released)
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- https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/947163/action/topic#947163
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@ZaneFlare92: Thanks for the kind words, always nice when your work is appreciated 😃 Agreed that Episode 1 is a big step up from the DNRed blu-ray, adding grain brings back a lot of its filmic qualities. Episode 1 is my favourite prequel so I wanted to do everything possible to improve the waxy look of the blu-ray.
I’ve never put a password on any of my releases so the issue you’re having with ROTJ must be related to a part that has been corrupted during download. Have you tried comparing the size of the different parts? They should all be the same size apart from the last part. If you find one that’s not the same size, thats most likely the part thats giving you the problem. You should try redownloading it with the site you used before, whether uploaded or 1fichier, and if you have the same problem again try downloading that part with the site you haven’t used, that should fix the problem.
@yotsuya: You feel that my Star Wars regrades are just as ‘unnatural’ and therefore just as bad as the colours of the official blu-rays. You are of course free to your opinion, but that comes across to me as total BS, no offense. You might want to consider using IMHO a bit as well so you don’t come across as one of those types constantly declaring their own very subjective opinion as objective fact, which gets kind of tiring to read after a while.
The saturation of the TFA regrade is exactly the same as saturation of the blu-ray, I always maintain the saturation levels of the film i’m regrading to respect the intentions of the filmmakers (unless its clearly undersaturated which is not the case here), only the fleshtones were shifted to remove the overly reddish sunburnt fleshtones of the blu-ray yet it is my TFA regrade that is oversaturated and ‘particularly bad’ according to you, not the blu-ray its matched the saturation of? Are you for real? I don’t know if you’re trolling here or not.
Assuming you’re not trolling, the issue that many here have with the first Leia shot in the comparisons is actually an issue of saturation, not an issue of how much yellow or red there is in the fleshtones. The saturation in the Star Wars official blu-ray is constantly changing from shot to shot, which is why I selectively regraded the vast majority of the Tarkin shots because they were far too saturated and beyond the acceptable saturation variation threshold I was willing to accept. The first Leia shot was not beyond this acceptable saturation variation threshold for me. I can clearly see from the reaction of a few here on this site that it was for you guys. Fair enough but we’ll have to agree to disagree there. If a consensus was required on how every shot of Star Wars was meant to look, I don’t think there would be a single Star Wars release to this day.
Not everybody is going to be happy with the colour choices you make, that is a fact that every regrader has no choice but to accept at some point if they want to be able to actually release something instead of endlessly debating about what Star Wars or indeed any film ‘should’ look like.
Considering the projection bulbs were very warm and yellow in the 70’s, I don’t have any problem accepting that Leia in that shot is a little more yellow than she would have been on set, in fact I would expect it and regraded the Original Trilogy as much as possible to take the warmer projection bulbs of the times into account. I also maintained a higher than strictly necessary saturation level to recreate the punchier colors of the technicolor print frames of Star Wars that i’ve had access to and really like the look of.
@Deloreanhunter12: Appreciate that! I never created 8gb versions of the V2 Star Wars releases, it is something that I have been planning to do for a while and haven’t got round to it yet. If you don’t want to wait though you can always download the larger versions and create 8gb versions from those.