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bionicbob said:oh! I want to see this!!!
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bionicbob said:oh! I want to see this!!!
TM2YC said:Oooooh this is nice:
TM2YC said:The HD re-upscaling of what is effectively downscaled "HD" 35mm film looks very impressive, the upscaling of the SD video portions (e.g. the FX shots) does not look so good. I guess the computer can be taught to put the detail back but not to invent detail that was never there.
Gaith said:TM2YC said:The HD re-upscaling of what is effectively downscaled "HD" 35mm film looks very impressive, the upscaling of the SD video portions (e.g. the FX shots) does not look so good. I guess the computer can be taught to put the detail back but not to invent detail that was never there.
Indeed. Presumably a studio effort could selectively scan the original film negatives to feed genuine detail into the software for optimal results in an economically feasible manner...
TM2YC said:IIRC one of the problems that has made creating HD versions of DS9 and Voyager nigh-on impossible and prohibitively expensive is that there never was an assembled negative (unlike with TNG). They shot the shows on "HD" film, scanned the reels into the computer in SD and only then started editing the episodes in whatever program they used. So you'd have to get all the reels back out of storage, scan them in HD and then go through every reel to find all the shots needed (with presumably no record to guide you) and remake every scene from scratch for all 350 episodes. That's just for the live action.
TM2YC said:However, with advances in AI technology, I believe it would now be entirely possible to get the computer to find all the footage for you in a very short amount of time. Just feed the AI all your newly scanned footage and your SD masters and let it match the two.
Gaith said:I'm pretty sure that's exactly what they did for TNG, which was originally edited on videotape, not film or computer, and I believe the same is true for DS9 and VOY.
Exactly. My friends and I were talking about this after the What We Left Behind documentary came out and they were talking about how hard it was to get the right footage.TM2YC said:However, with advances in AI technology, I believe it would now be entirely possible to get the computer to find all the footage for you in a very short amount of time. Just feed the AI all your newly scanned footage and your SD masters and let it match the two. This AI technique was used to reconstruct Orson Welles' last film by giving it the new scans and the workprint.