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TrekCore: "Important News about DS9 in HD Coming May 10"

Please put it in the movie theater! I nominate either Emissary (as the movie) or Duet and In the Hands of the Prophets!
 
Q: Would people who do not like things 'changing' in remastered versions object if the repeated 'battle scene' in the final episode (pulled from a couple of previous episodes) was replaced with a new battle sequence?

Would I mind? No.

Would this actually ever happen? Not in a million years.
 
It's Dave Clark, one of those SOTL guys.

But did he actually re-render the original scene file or did he recreate it? Because he says that none of the assets belong to him, but I know he built an Enterprise-D model.
 
Woah. Some potential/theoretical DS9 HD footage...

http://youtu.be/lw-a0I-XA7Q

Now that's amazing. If an amateur can cobble that together in a few hours of free time then surely CBS-D can do it? All that talk about how CGI battles are far too expensive and far too complicated and far too time consuming is just total rubbish.

I get the impression it's not just some amateur.

I wasn't trying to be disrespecful to the artist who made that clip. My point is if someone can create something like that by themselves without commercial backing it can't be all that hard for a large company that specialises in that sort of thing. The story so far has always been that remastering a show like DS9 or VOY would be prohibitively difficult with regard to complex CGI such as space battles. If one guy can do it in his spare time without pay or help (beyond borrowing a few models) then surely CBS-D can do it too?
 
Whoa ... that looks awesome! And very close to what was in the actual episode, if I remember correctly. I'd love to see more of this!
 
That still looks CGI, because it is. CGI will never look as filmic as model work. It looked like CGI on the DVD as well. To say otherwise is a bit silly. With digital techniques, they could make the CGI look more like film, but I will always see the difference.

The most important thing is that the improvement in quality is staggering. And we should all be thankful that these companies saved their files.
Yeah. The point isn't how well that particular shot looks, the point is just that there is a lot more detail to the FX the producers of an HD DS9 have to work with than was known before. That's a good thing in and of itself.
 
What? While watching the clip I thought CBS might never put that much effort into their remastering.... and they probably won't.

I agree. I would be surprised if we ended up with fx looking this good. Of course it still looks like CGI but that is inevitable. Even with a movie budget that slightly unreal effect is there.
 
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