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[QUOTE]Originally posted by PsyLiam: [QB] [QUOTE]Originally posted by o2: [qb] Regarding the costs involved: I would estimate the hourly costs with 100 Dollars. Assuing that the (stock) footage is alreday available this job should be done in 1 day, resulting in net costs of 800 Dollars. Usually this amount will be multipled by 3 to 5 to cover quality assurance, management, office equipment, etc. so that we receive a total of 4000 Dollars. I expect the real costs to be significant lower since certain synergies apply (the shot in question had been updated with a CGI planet, so all the processing steps after the shot has been finshed by the artist are already covered. The additional starship in it would only be a by-product). Your profile says that you also work in the IT business. Can I assume that your question was therefore only rhetorical? Please share your insights with us. 4000 Dollars is a lot of money and no project manager is spending this kind of money without a good reason. On the other hand: I have to spend between 60 and 70 EUR for each season (85 to 100 Dollars). This is really a high price for a show considering that no sets were build, no actors had to be paid and no film crew was employed. Don't get me wrong. I love to see TNG in HD (this is the luxury I allow myself). But every now and then I would like to see a little surprise in there. Why? Because I'm assured that this is the last release. You said I should not complain so much. For my defense I have to say that I was lured by the change of the Tsiolkovsky's registry in 'The Naked Now'. I understand this as a signal that they will indeed change thinks like that every once in the while. [/qb][/QUOTE]My question was completely rhetorical, because I have no idea of the costs involved. None of us do. No actors had to be paid? Are you sure they contracts don't cover money made from re-releases? Same with any of the old production staff. And your costs have completely missed out on a whole load of factors. As has been said, they've spent months tracking down the original footage and re-editing it. Bits like the Starbase from 11001001 (from memory, bitches!) were taken from the original film stock from ST III, lots of shots have been reframed to remove things like tripods, the colour-grading has been changed across all episodes, every single piece of CGI in the show at the moment has had to be redone practically from scratch... Besides, hourly costs of $100? Assuming that they're at least 5 staff on the project, you're only paying them $20 an hour for quite technical skills? Never mind that you've left no money for paying for the computer software (which even if already bought might need to be continiously relicenced), the specialist hardware such as the monitors required, a general IT infrastructure including email, file servers, anti-virus software and so on, office space, electricity, food and drink, cleaning, transportation costs, running and maintaining the equipment required to read the old film stock, advertising money, paying for all the blu-ray extras like the commentaries, cast and writers get-togethers, and lots more that I can't think of because I'm not a project manager... But basically, if the costs are anywhere near as low as $100 an hour I would be staggered. I doubt that would even cover the wages. (I do understand that you'd like to see more changes. So would a lot of people. And a lot of people complained about the Star Wars special editions, or the remastered versions of Red Dwarf. I do respect the producers desires to keep things clean. Both TOS and TNG remastered weren't done for us, they were done for casual fans. Casual fans would notice the horrible-for-today space shots in TOS. They would notice that TNG is a blurry, smeary mess. They won't notice that the BOPs in Yesterday's Enterprise are bigger than they are supposed to be.) [/QB][/QUOTE]
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