vaderios said:
Well like i said i am a total noob about Star Trek..
Johnny pointed me the trek site that had HD snapshots..
My first reaction to the matte shots was: Oh my.. Is this for real? are they look so painted in the movie?
So considering that it might be a challenge for me..
But id like to know how radical FF will be in this edit..
-Angel
Here's a short intro to the drama that is The Motion Picture. Originally it was going to be the pilot for a new TV series. But after Star Wars came out, they decided to rush it into a film production. It was given a release date, but it wasn't enough time to tweak the effects and pacing. The director saw the final cut in the theaters at the premier in 1979.
When they released it to home video in the 1980's, they used the TV version, which had deleted scenes put back in with even less effects work done, some even having entire backstages visible behind the actors!
When they were going to release it on DVD in the early 2000's, it was finally decided that they should finish their twenty year old movie. The director was brought back in with an effects team to fix the worst mattes (the planet Vulcan is night in the original mattes, but the actors are obviously in day, etc.) and create new effects, but nothing that couldn't have been done using the technology in 1979. It was a "if they really had the time originally" edit. The problem was that Paramount didn't think ahead and only had the new effects rendered at DVD quality.
So when it came time for the Blu-ray last year, the only version of the film they had at HD quality was the original theatrical version, which they scanned in and released. It's like the opposite of Star Wars. They didn't future-proof the Special Edition, so they had to release the Original Unaltered Version on Blu-ray!
So before you get too far into freaking out about the mattes, go to the DVD screenshot area of TrekCore. That's the version that FanFiltration is editing from and it has several better mattes (but they still might need a touch from the Angel!)
If I can't find one, I'll try making a visual comp between the Theatrical Blu-ray and the Director's Cut DVD, as it is my "thing".
ALSO: This is the only alternate version of the TMP theme I have. LOL