Dr Dre's Magical Color Matching tool.
Written in MATLab, this great new tool can be used to match the colors of one image with that of another, with great accuracy. While this has a great many applications, it is also useful to Star Wars...
View ArticleHow to clean up Team Negative One's Grindhouse Empire Strikes Back
Hello Star Wars Fans! In this video I'm going to show you how you can use PFClean to make some improvements to Team Negative One's Grindhouse Edition of The Empire Strikes Back.While the Grindhouse...
View ArticleTutorial, Stabilization with PF Clean
In this video, we use the Personal Learning Edition of PF Clean to demonstrate some of the ways you can stabilize footage using this software. If you watched our "How to clean up Team Negative One's...
View ArticleStar Wars 1981 Crawl Restoration Demo part 1
In this informative tutorial you'll learn how to use motion trackers, stabilization, Find Edges, Threshold, Paint Bucket, Auto Trace, Masking, Shape layers, precomposition, and much more! I'm slowly...
View ArticleRestoring Color to a Faded Eastman Print of Star Wars
Why Does Some Old Film Turn Red?Hello Star Wars fans. While this film is about restoring Star Wars, it is also about restoring film in general. As you can see, this reel of Star Wars is, well not's...
View ArticleCleaning Up Team Negative One's Silver Screen Edition of Star Wars
I wanted to test out a number of different After Effect Noise Reduction plugins, and I knew that this 35mm version of Star Wars certainly has some noisy scenes. Would today's DNR (digital Noise...
View ArticleStar Wars Project 4k77 Techniques
You may recall that some time ago I posted a video about creating your own dirtmap. Well, if you were wondering what use that could possibly be, all will now be revealed...Does it work? Download an...
View ArticleStar Wars Project 4k77 Sources
SourcesHello Star Wars fans!We've had a few questions about the 35mm sources we are using, so I figured I would just show you what they are. Most of project 4K77 will be either Eastman or Technicolor,...
View ArticleHow to remove some of the image warping in "Star Wars" using Adobe After Effects
Sem Skywalker recently posted a nice video on YouTube demonstrating how to fix some of the warping seen in Team Negative One's Silver Screen Edition:While the technique works beautifully for this shot,...
View ArticleHow to "GOUT Sync" Star Wars
Gout?First of all, you may be wondering "what the hell is he talking about?!" Well, the "GOUT" is what fans affectionately call the 2006 Bonus DVDs of the original Star Wars Trilogy. It is short for...
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