Comments on: Review of Mirror Mirror Remastered

By: Jovan

Jovan — Mon, 01 Jan 2007 08:30:26 +0000

Maybe it’s just me, but it looked like they added some glow to the phaser blasts I’d still like to see a bit of energy swirling or something in the beam, especially given that phase pistols acted that way.

By: Norm

Norm — Mon, 20 Nov 2006 22:33:01 +0000

I wish I coud see these phaser shot you guys are talking about.

By: Cervantes

Cervantes — Mon, 20 Nov 2006 12:28:16 +0000

I believe him too MichaeIT ! LOL!

Just to clarify…as Rick is suggesting that he is unsure if his suggestion would work on other hand phaser effects over and above this one in “Mirror Mirror”, I am asking if ANYONE out there knows or has an idea if the dodgier hand phaser effects across ALL THE EPISODES can be improved UPON, if the CBS Digital team are unable for whatever reason to completely REDO them.

By: MichaelT

MichaelT — Sun, 19 Nov 2006 04:30:23 +0000

Frankly, I will believe Mr. Sternbach’s thoughts as he mentioned in #36 above others in here because I know his history and expertise.

By: Cervantes

Cervantes — Sat, 18 Nov 2006 12:25:24 +0000

Oh and just to clarify my poor prose…it IS the hand phaser effects I’m dreading…not the EXCELLENT new Enterprise CGI model and it’s fine new nascelles.

By: Cervantes

Cervantes — Sat, 18 Nov 2006 12:20:33 +0000

The above post #38 is from Cervantes

I forgot to enter my details before I forwarded it.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 18 Nov 2006 12:17:57 +0000

Welcome aboard the good ship Trekmovie.com Rick

From what I’ve seen over quite a few recent threads, the original hand phaser beam effects are turning into the new dreaded “Nascelles issue”…

And I’m one of the dreaders unfortunately…I would absolutely love these effects to be enhanced in some way before final High Definition DVD release…ahem, along with SOME background landscapes / clouds in the sparser episode sets…as these phaser shots are going to look SOOOO dated in future, given the sparkling new additions, if not.

IF they can’t be redone from scratch in any way without great time and expense due to limitations of what stock the CBS Digital team are having to work on…can someone say on this site if it is possible to SUPERIMPOSE some kind of additional magic ON TOP OF what is already there, to at least jazz them up somewhat. If it’s not viable to even do that given today’s technology, then I will accept that fact quite happily.

And yes, as a professional designer myself, I DO KNOW what I would suggest to ADD to the originals to make them shine and tie-in better if anyone cares to ask.

By: THEETrekMaster

THEETrekMaster — Sat, 18 Nov 2006 02:33:29 +0000

I was thinking something like that *might* be possible, but I hadn’t gone back to look at the footage as Rick did.

Good catch, Rick!

TTM

By: Rick Sternbach

Rick Sternbach — Sat, 18 Nov 2006 01:18:42 +0000

To drag this all back to “Mirror, Mirror” for a second, I just figured out a way to redo the phaser effects using existing footage, at least in this one case (I went back and steped through the sequences in the corridor). The animation of the phaser beam and the reverse angle on the hit and dematerializing were all STILL frames, if you look very carefully. There’s a start frame for the beam, which could be used to overlay a new animated version. The start of the reverse shot of the hit was a still frame that could be used for multiple frames for a new hit, and then faded out to the last clean frame where the guy is totally gone. Again, not saying this would work in all cases, but it sure seems that it would be fine here.

By: THEETrekMaster

THEETrekMaster — Fri, 17 Nov 2006 22:12:54 +0000

I agree. The third season FX…at least the new shots were great! But now, they have to change them to make them consistent with the rest of the series that they are remastering…

TTM