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« Last post by JayUtah on Today at 12:15:01 PM »Remastering also brings in color gamut issues and resolution issues. Most television at the time was shot on 35 mm film. You have to make different color correction and contrast correction choices when remastering for modern televisions. The "red" command uniforms in Star Trek: The Next Generation are actually fuchsia. All the processing decisions made during shooting and video transfer back then were made with certain assumptions in mind.
You can obtain quite a bit of resolution from 35 mm film, but when planning for 480p broadcast, the film appropriately captures more resolution than you want or need. Set designers and builders in the pre-HDTV era had a very good eye for what would pass. When you actually visit these sets you can see how frankly crudely a lot of it is built. And this is important when sticking to schedule and budget. I talked to a few of the original TNG set and prop designers who were a little embarrassed to see all their shortcuts revealed in glorious 1080i.
As I said above, our documentary was shot using FTETTM space suits, but on video instead of 35 mm film. Now I really want to see what the 35 mm original footage looks like. We had the original suit fabricator on set, from Global Effects. He showed me the shortcuts such as silver nylon fabric used instead of Chromel-R ($1,300 per yard). I have access to an A7L suit (with the original Chromel-R), so maybe one of my projects can be to compare the photography under different conditions and see how close they got.
If anyone wants to rent an A7L replica used on the series, here's the link.
https://newsite.globaleffects.com/GEI_Site/C_b03_frameset.html
You can obtain quite a bit of resolution from 35 mm film, but when planning for 480p broadcast, the film appropriately captures more resolution than you want or need. Set designers and builders in the pre-HDTV era had a very good eye for what would pass. When you actually visit these sets you can see how frankly crudely a lot of it is built. And this is important when sticking to schedule and budget. I talked to a few of the original TNG set and prop designers who were a little embarrassed to see all their shortcuts revealed in glorious 1080i.
As I said above, our documentary was shot using FTETTM space suits, but on video instead of 35 mm film. Now I really want to see what the 35 mm original footage looks like. We had the original suit fabricator on set, from Global Effects. He showed me the shortcuts such as silver nylon fabric used instead of Chromel-R ($1,300 per yard). I have access to an A7L suit (with the original Chromel-R), so maybe one of my projects can be to compare the photography under different conditions and see how close they got.
If anyone wants to rent an A7L replica used on the series, here's the link.
https://newsite.globaleffects.com/GEI_Site/C_b03_frameset.html
winds up off screen in the remaster.