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The problem with CGI on B5 is that much of it is composited with pesky humans. So you can do pure exterior shots of ship battles etc, but other stuff - I don't know. Yeah, the composite shots are a problem. If the raw pre-CGI film still exists, the CGI overlays could be redone, but that's a pretty ...

Awesome work!

Tom is using the original files, though, not rebuilding from scratch. Give those same files to a professional studio (or better, just pay Tom!) and the cost would be pretty low, by the standards of such things. You could render those effects in realtime on a home PC these days! There's nothing quite...

They could have re-rendered a significant chunk of the CGI for a pretty minimal cost. Some of the files were lost, but not all of them - see https://www.youtube.com/@tomsmith6107/videos (he used to have several more videos up). And they could have included both versions of The Gathering in 4:3 on th...

I'm rewatching B5 at the moment. It's a pity it's such a budget release - the show deserves better - but the picture quality is certainly a big step up from the DVDs.

Foundation is a weird show. I'm not impressed with it as an adaptation, but the original Empire stuff is pretty cool.

Ooh, that's tempting...

That is good news!

The subtitles looked (to me at least) like they were super-imposed as proper text. I remember the typography being sharper than the video itself. They're an optional superimposed layer rather than baked in, yes, but my understanding is the blu-ray format still stores subtitles as images, not text.

I believe on-disc subtitles use an image-based format, so need OCR to convert them to text for .srt format, and probably some manual correction. Try Subtitle Edit?

It seems possible to me that there might also be other things in the pipeline that we also know nothing about yet. Seems like a bit of a long shot, but I hope you're right! Hmm... it would be a shame not to do anything with all those marionettes and models. If Mysterious Cities of Gold can get a de...