• Flying Squid@lemmy.worldM
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    8 months ago

    Except that still has the new effects and it’s still restored. And therein lies my problem with what you can usually see.

    1. The new CG effects look totally out-of-place with the show as it was filmed. They’re incredibly jarring.
    2. The restoration does not take into account the fact that the lighting and makeup was designed to pop on snowy 1960s TVs.

    I don’t need to see what is clearly just makeup on Spock. Or just lipstick on Shatner. I really don’t think Kirk would have been wearing lipstick. Not even as a gender thing, I just don’t think he would see a reason to.

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    8 months ago

    Real film can be cleaned up, restored and remastered in super mego 4000K HD or whatever, so I can see Spock’s five 'o clock shadow come and go as the filming day went on and they filmed some scenes out of order, then physically cut the chosen takes together on a machine. It makes me smile. Real film is best film.

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        They were shot, but not mastered on film. The problem is they have a lot more cg that would have to be completely redone and no one wants to spend the money on it. For example, we have some 4k footage scanned from the original film from the ds9 doc “what we left behind”

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          There’s some really decent upscaled samples of Voyager floating around (well, decent looking to me at least). Would love to know how they did it, I tried upscaling sg1 a few years back and have nfi what I’m doing, they succeeded at taking up a lot more space, and that’s about it.

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    8 months ago

    How was this done? Upscale or from the original film?

    Urgh imagine if paramount stopped being cheap bastards and just released 4k HDR of all of trek.