- Post
- #1450044
- Topic
- ROTJ 2011 Blu-Ray Color Correction And Restoration (RELEASED).
- Link
- https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/1450044/action/topic#1450044
- Time
ORIGINAL POST: ROTJ has one of the worst grades on Blu-ray, It has this weird oversaturated blue tint, And has Desaturated reds, Which themselves look purple-like. and don’t get me started with the dreaded magenta overcast which is hard to get rid of. So I’ve gone ahead and color-corrected the film Anyway-style I’ve used the available scenes/pictures as reference. After this is done (few days) I will have a complete set of Adywan-style color-corrected Blu-rays. which I will use for my preservation and edits.
Things to note:
If colors look too blue or too grey that’s how they are SUPPOSED to look, I didn’t recolor or desaturate anything as that is destructive to the film.
Also, the crawl is in Spanish, because that’s the best master I could find.
2024 UPDATE:
Hey everyone, so I’ve recently rekindled my fascination for ROTJ, so I’ve decided to Re-up this project and do an all-new color correction.
Main Differences from Old Correction:
Final Render will be a full-quality file (20 GB or thereabouts) and this time it’ll be sourced from the original Blu-ray, which gives me an advantage at removing the crappy over-exposed highlights this film has, Which turned out to be kind of simple to do:
Thanks to the Blu-ray’s high bit-rate, I was able to get a good amount of detail back that was lost in the highlights. couldn’t do much about the shadows though. Anyways here’s a clip:
Comp: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1p1P73ZifNzEwtutHbJ8rVxAzpxmjhNeg/view?usp=sharing
Just the Color Grade: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1BL-sieK703sOTsw8ufNVApsi7nsWPowS/view?usp=sharing
I will also be replacing out-of-focus shots with the 2019 4k Blu-ray.
Still have a few things to do, and a few kinks to iron out, but overall it’s almost done.
expect a release next week or thereabouts.
also, any thoughts on the grade would be very much appreciated.
Release details:
File Size: 50GB.
1080x1920
File host: Google Drive. please message me for the link(s) (PM ONLY)
Smaller encode:
File size: 15GB
1080x1920
File host: Mega, please message me for the link(s) (PM ONLY)