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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Reverend: [QB] [QUOTE]Originally posted by MinutiaeMan: [qb] 6. I remember reading somewhere that TNG was shot on film but edited directly on video. So not only would they have to convert every effects scene, but they'd also have to <em>re-edit the entire episode</em> to put it in HD. [/qb][/QUOTE]Actually I think having all the footage on film is a good thing in his case. Any attempt to replace VFX and not have it look crap would require the best possible print to be scanned into a digital editing suit. Needless to say, film stock is is probably going to be much easier to blow up for HD than a second or third gen video transfer. Plus of course you'd need the raw footage to re-composite any new VFX regardless. Re-editing and re-scoring the entire episode is, I think a given in this case. I think TOS-R got away with it because the limitations of 60's technology on a shoestring budget meant the shots they were replacing were pretty straight forward and took up relatively little screen time. TNG had a *LOT* more VFX elements per episode. I'd be surprised if it goes ahead, but if any franchise can afford to have this much money thrown at it, it's Star Trek. Shows like Babylon 5 on the other hand don't have a snowball's chance in hell of getting the HD treatment. Building a whole new stable of HD quality assets and textures, re-rendering all that footage on it's own would be prohibitively expensive, never mind all the video and audio remastering legwork. I wonder if it might be a better idea for them to work backwards. Start with Enterprise (assuming it's not already HD quality) then tackling Voyager and DS9. The digital assents are more likely to be around and a lot of the original model builders and animators are still in the business. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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