tellan

man, the more I colour correct this puppy mverta style, the more I can’t believe that lucasfilm let this get released as it is.

the colour values are so screwed its unbelievable. some scenes are so blue and red boosted i cannot believe that so called THX ‘quality control’ certified this thing.

example, techdome on tatooine after the droids have just been purchased. everything is red shifted, too dark and blue values have been boosted over 40% above normal to make artoo’s blue ‘fit’ the other films. the only problem is it looks ridiculous. it’s so obviously wrong.

luke’s shirt is a reddy pink rather than white and the black values are all over the place.

hey, its fixable but its annoying that someone like me with £1500 of computer equipment is having to do what should have been done in the first place.

anyone know if there is a good DVD boot of the SE from LD?

I ask because things occured to me tonight regarding image quality etc.

we all know the special editions of the trilogy were digitally recomposited so the space scenes at end of ANH + snow battle were much better right?

however the DVD visual quality is too much better than the LD for us to mix the two, that is generally agreed although I know mverta is gonna prove us all wrong on that score. well what about the SE LD which got bootlegged onto DVD? the SE on LD by my fuzzy memory wasn’t that bad. okay so it needs color correcting to match the faces or DE LD but we get a source that boasts similar picture detail as the OT LD from the faces or definitive edition version, + can then cull out the recomposited space action.

but, was there a boot DVD of the SE LD that was ever any good? what about the LOOK SE set? is that any good anyone?

I’m posting to the group from a shopping mall while the wife shops. joy! If I see another mall it’ll be too soon but it’s bank holiday weekend, what do you thinks gonna happen tomorrow?

anyway I’m still fiddling with my capture but the big stand out thing that makes it fall apart is mos eisley. people on the board have provided me with footage in the past. (mebejedi, moth3r and russ to name a few) so big thanks for the help in the past. But I’m wondering if anyone could do it again? the problem is it’s a larger clip.

I’m needing the mos eisley approach from when ben says “we must be cautious” and it cuts to the crap matte shot of the background and the speeder, to when the speeder has pulled up outside the cantina and threepio says he hates jawa’s cos they’re disgusting creatures.

that’s a lot of frames and I know it’s no small thing to ask.would there be any way anyone would be able to help on this at all?

this would improve both my LD project and also allow me to matte out the ronto’s from the DVD release. I can’t matte from such a poor source which I have at the moment.

if anyone is able to help at all then please pm me to discuss how I can get the footage, whether it’s FTP somewhere or perhaps cut to disc for which I will pay to cover postage costs etc.

Either NTSC or PAL does not matter and if its progressive that would be a big help, either 25fps progressive for PAL or 23.976fps progressive for NTSC.

I know this is no small amount of footage I’m asking about but I’m a bit stuck on both projects unless I can improve my footage in this area.

as title says.

anyone got the isolated score on it’s own, or is it hosted anywhere? its an extra I’d like to add to my set but I’m having great trouble with my broadband downloading 2gb+ files so I’ve not been able to get stuff from my bittorrents for a while that’s quite large. I’m using ABC by the way.