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Subj : Re: TNG vs TOS - anybody still think Next Generation sucks?
To   : rec.arts.sf.tv,rec.arts.startrek.current,alt.tv.star-trek.tos
From : electrictroy
Date : Fri Sep 30 2005 08:02:40

From Newsgroup: alt.tv.star-trek.tos


ANIM8Rfsk wrote:
> in article 433CAF85.918BBAEB@rochester.rr.com, Mike at
> > It was shot on film but the film was transfered to videotape and the
> > final "master", that is, what the final show is stored on is videotape.
> > For special effects, the models were shot on film and compositied in
> > video. So, while film was used (so it wouldn't have a shot on video
> > look) to film the scenes, the show was finished and only exists in it's
> > complete form on videotape.
>
> What Mike said.  And after the first season, when they went to the ugly
> smaller model and stopped using all the nice stock footage ILM had shot for
> them, they generated a lot of the FX on video, so a lot of the elements
> never existed in any other form as well.

..

That means if TNG is ever re-mastered the show from the original film,
we'll be watching *someone else's work*, not the original director or
the original FX team.

The TV show Babylon 5 has a similar problem (and probably VOY/ENT) with
their CGI.  The show was filmed, but the CGI was composed for 550x480
video.  Originally J.Michael Straczynski had planned to re-render the
graphics for HDTV-res, which with modern computers would be a breeze.
What used to take a day on a 25 megahertz 68030 amiga, would only take
a minute on a 5000 megahertz Pentium-10 (or whatever).

But someone at warner brothers *erased* the data files.  Idiots.
Probably the same people who erased the Doctor Who archives.

troy

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