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Immortus45 wrote:
> > Second, is it _technically_ possible to do an HD version of original
> > B5? Does the Super 35 film that I believe the live action was shot on
> > offer the option of re-scanning for HD? For the live action / CGI
> > composited shots, are the live action parts of those still stored in a
> > format that would allow rescanning into a higher resolution and
> > different aspect ratio?
> > -Shabaz
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> Are you trying to say that there was no point at which the CGI  was
> transfered to 35 mm film ?  They don't have complete 42 minute episodes
> on film in a vault somewhere ?

As far as I know, all the composited and CGI shots only exist now as
NTSC 480i masters. Which is a resolution that they barely managed to
get rendered in a workable time anyway; rendering for film resolution
as they do for movies would've been ridiculously expensive and time
intensive, and overkill at the time for the television broadcast.

However, the original computer files that the CGI scenes were rendered
from were turned over to WB every year, from what I understand, with
the intention of rerendering to different aspect ratios and resolutions
if and when that would come up. Except WB lost those files, somehow.

So they had to go back to those NTSC versions that were rendered for
television for the comped and CGI shots, cut off the top and bottom
sections of the frames, and blow those shots up to make them fit in the
widescreen frame for the Sci-Fi and DVD widescreen versions of B5.

-Shabaz
                              
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