Comments on: Review of “All Our Yesterdays” Remastered

By: VOODOO

VOODOO — Tue, 16 Nov 2010 02:48:24 +0000

If you can forgive some major plot holes I think “All Our Yesterdays” is actually quite good. It’s one of the better third season episodes.

By: CmdrR

CmdrR — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 02:47:57 +0000

Holy crap, it does!

By: CmdrR

CmdrR — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 02:47:39 +0000

This still work??

By: Cervantes

Cervantes — Sat, 28 Apr 2007 10:35:12 +0000

#127 Kelvington

Thanks for taking the time to explain your process. Keep up the good work.

By: CmdrR.

CmdrR. — Fri, 27 Apr 2007 21:43:53 +0000

119- diabolik — I always saw the third season as lit too brightly and filmed in a very flat, uniform and bland way.
You can tell which season it was by the lighting alone, which felt as though it was just done by the numbers.

agreed. Compare Scotty’s impassioned “The power levels — the power levels are dead!” in Immunity Syndrome versus Kirk’s “No beach to walk on” in The Naked Time. In the latter, the key light on Shat’s face is perfect, whereas Scotty is left kvetching about zero power on a bridge where every light (and sound effect) are burning away.

By: CmdrR.

CmdrR. — Fri, 27 Apr 2007 20:23:58 +0000

Thanks for explaining this. I understand the remastered appear slightly washed out only because of this process, not because of CBS-D or anything you’ve done wrong.
Mostly, thanks for doing the side-by-side for us. It’s a BIG help whilst we formulate vitriolic commentary.

By: Kelvington

Kelvington — Fri, 27 Apr 2007 20:13:04 +0000

A few words about color and the captures. Here is how it’s all done…
1. I take my avi files of the original episodes which were DVD ripped, they become the “original source” material.
2. I cut the episode down using Spockboy’s template and start trying to find the shots I think will be updated and lay them out in the time line. Size them down to one half of the screen.
3. I record the REMASTERED show on my DirecTivo which is slightly hacked so I can download them off the Tivo into my computer.
4. I take the original .ty stream (which looks perfect) and edit it using the TyTools editor to grab the effects shots.
5. I save a cut list of the effects shots and turn the ty stream into a VOB file… things start loosing a little color at this point, but still look pretty good.
6. I convert the VOB file down to an mpg file (again losing a little more quality) but still pretty good for space shots and bring that into the video program.
7. I cut the effects shots out and again using Spockboy’s template size them down to be on one half of the screen. I add a black bar to the top of the remastered frame to cover up the transmission data stream at the top.
8. Once I start matching up shots and finding key frames to lock the shots together I drag them into a nice little line, and render the final video in either avi or mpg file formats.
9. Depending on the size of the file I post them to an upload site and my work is done.

The whole process takes about two hours from first cut of the original series to final cut of the remastered episode.

I agree it’s not a perfect color match and probably never will be since I’m almost completely color blind. I’ve tried adjusting them but I never find a medium I’m happy with. I’m always open to suggestions.

Hope that explains some of the process, I didn’t respond sooner because I just today read the thread.

By: diabolik

diabolik — Fri, 27 Apr 2007 18:50:51 +0000

Zarabeth and Uhura… sounds like a fan-fiction idea for a story riiiiight there.

By: CmdrR.

CmdrR. — Fri, 27 Apr 2007 16:18:33 +0000

“Trekkie Nights?”
Nina Hartley as Rand.

By: Jim J (there are always possibilities)

Jim J (there are always possibilities) — Fri, 27 Apr 2007 13:52:56 +0000

Hmmm…maybe if Trek 11 is successful, we can hope for that in the future, Dennis. Surely someone can come up with a good script. Either that, or submit it to the “other producers” in California. LOL ;-)