When I publish my final tutorials, I will have publicly created a version of Deep Space Nine that blows anything publicly available out of the water. I'll be first in line to buy the remaster, if one becomes available. I've already seen that the techniques work on other types of video, so the information transfers. TLDR: If ViacomCBS announces a remaster of DS9 and VOY tomorrow, I get to keep everything I've learned about remastering video. I write about my projects and efforts as part of my job. I've got stories planned for the near future on the exact capabilities of Topaz VEAI and how to use AviSynth and TVEAI together. The secondary purpose of my work is to raise awareness of AI upscaling and its realistic capabilities. Now, I have an entire suite of tools and capabilities I never had before. I had never edited a single video before I picked up this project. In the process of learning how to restore DS9, I've also learned how to deinterlace, deblock, derainbow, composite video in DaVinci Resolve, extract edge masks for other uses, blend layers, and use complex filter chains. The techniques I have learned from this project transfer to other videos and I've used them in other restoration projects. It could be improved, especially the scenes where *they* had to use upscaled footage. And besides, I'll take what I've learned and use it to further punch up the remastered version. If they never announce a remaster, I'll have my improvements. I'll consider it evidence that the collective efforts to raise interest in the topic from me and a lot of other people have worked. If ViacomCBS announces a new version of DS9 and VOY, I'll be thrilled. Some of those ideas came from other folks. But many of those projects are based on the AviSynth scripts and ideas I published. Considering how long I've spent polishing my technique, most of them have converted more of the show than I have. I know of at least 15 people working on DS9 right now for their own collections. The stories I have written have collectively driven excellent traffic. I decided to write about it, partly in the hopes that other fans would find my work useful, and partly to raise the idea of a new DS9 remaster publicly. I didn't just decide to remaster DS9, though. I agree that it would make sense for ViacomCBS to do this, but the only word from VCBS is that they were not satisfied with sales of the Blu-ray TNG and will not be continuing with DS9 or VOY. To the best of their collective knowledge, there is no remaster in the works. I have made contact with multiple people who work on modern Star Trek and a few who worked on the original DS9 VFX team. I waited 20 years for ViacomCBS to announce a remaster. (And let's forego the conspiracies of "the made it bad so they could resell it later".) With few exceptions, such as censorship on latter versions, or ADD-fueled "fixes" by George Lucas. Whatever you do at home will eventually be far surpassed by a subsequent retail release. Bad DVD releases are special.Īnd as I wrote many posts ago, "restoring" a retail release is pointless. Furthermore, the issues present in a bad DVD transfer are not natural errors found on most sources.
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