I second that. It looks fine on my monitor, just like if he were in the room with me.
Oh, and Harmy, Peter Cushing is a little too pale in real life! :)
It looks to me like v1 was cropped a bit. V2 seems to have been less cropped.
I don't know about Harmy, but that looks white to me.
@canofhumdingers: That is a good point. I think that we are most of the way there, because we are disputing the smallest changes in hues and tints! At least the "blue filter" of the official release is gone.
That said, it would be a shame to get almost there and give up because it is too difficult.
Also, to put it out there, my monitor is not calibrated, but is mostly correct (lines up with what others are seeing).
No, there's no blue at all. It doesn't exist in the Star Wars palette! :)
That is actually why I didn't include a lot of "blue" problems in my notes, just the table part and the sand crawler lights which seemed excessively blue.
OK, finally downloaded the workprint, and here are my rough notes about what I saw. I mainly looked at color consistencies/inconsistencies. I listed the approximate timecodes for the events.
4 min. - Stormtrooper beige color
6:50 min - stars in the escape pod shaft flickering? Is that correct?
"No one to stop us this time" - Vader's friend slightly brownish
12:50 min - bluish Sand Crawler lights
14:45 - too bright, washed out sand color
16:35 - also too bright?
20:03 - color levels/Luke's hair and skin tone
20:45 - squarish hologram "shadow" behind image
23:13 - bluish table - should be white? Luke's clothes are also a bit blue
24:50 - odd color switch between shots - goes from orangey in the Binary Sunset scene to greenish in the next shot
29:30 - Odd color levels - Obi-wan very pale/brown, compared to later in the shot or at his home
35:12 - Color of admiral different from later in the clip
Also, Princess Leia differently colored in detention cell; may be because of the whiter lighting as opposed to the reddish lighting on Tantive IV.
The good things I noticed:
Awesome clarity of the Star Destroyer in the beginning shot/tractor beam shot. Did you use the BD as a source? Also, no "ghost Luke"!
I think I remember him saying that 25fps was easiest to find error problems because the timecodes would be the same for viewer and himself.
I'm game! :)
I always look forward to your videos, Harmy! :)
For some reason, the file has been temporarily unavailable for me all day...
Aargh! Yes, I meant NTFS. That's what you get for posting before you are fully awake! :-)
Apparently, PS3 is backwards enough that they ONLY recognize FAT32. I guess that means you have to split the file to put it on your hard drive, or have Troyig88 or myself mail you a copy of the trilogy on DL DVDs.
If it is just the file size limitations of FAT, you could always format the hard drive to NTSC. You should have no problem then; I have formatted some of my smaller flash drives to NTSC so I can load larger files on them.
Haha! That's great You_Too! Those will make nice desktop backgrounds...
Great clip, Harmy! Excited for 2.0 to be released... :)
Thanks! :)
A Japanese LD copy is up at the spleen. That makes 3 copies there: PAL VHS, BBC, and Japan LD! :)
@perkyporker: What problems are you having upgrading the TRV-16G? Does it have the terrible degrading pinch rollers like the 16-CL?
Sounds good to me! Probably this should be confined to PM's, from now on...
Count me in for donations, if needed.
That should do an amazing job of capturing the film! From what I've read, Elmos are pretty much the Cadillac of the projector world. I've never had any trouble with my 16-CL after it was serviced.
Awesome! Great news, Harmy! :)
Yup. That's the only BBC copy I'm aware of. I believe that ALL copies of the BBC SOTS have the weird interlacing issue.
As an FYI, a copy of the BBC broadcast is up on myspleen... :)
It says it is temporarily unavailable - is that just on my end?
DrGonzo369 has a copy of the Doctor M dvd, and should be sending me a copy.
Otherwise, I did a VHS color-correction based on the original 35mm cels which is hosted over on Myspleen. PM me for more info.