Is remastering a cakewalk?
Obviously the answer is no.
Remastering is labor intensive.
But I respect the work they did so much, I'm literally here begging for more.
Plus they get paid to preserve films, and that's their job.
I'm not saying that conforming a master out of uncut 35mm film isn't painstaking or impossible, but it's been done 24 times already, it's literally not impossible.
They can't say we could only do it once, that was demonstrated after it was accomplished 24 times.
*I'm sure there's some that I need to add and take from the list as I learn more.
It would be one thing if you were asking Mo Henry to eyeball it on a Steambeck for all 384 episodes of DS9 and Voyager, it would be impossible, she would go blind in all 3 of her eyes may she Rest in Peace.
That changed with iConform.
It took a team of 30 people to do it.
Where did I ever say or imply this was a cake walk?
That, and they all really seemed to believe in what they were doing, that's why they became Archivists in the first place.
I think the highest honor you can bestow upon those people is saying you want them to handle your favorite TV show with the same amount of care and love that they handled TNG with.
Part of the difficulty was CBS' deadline.
CBS had to outsource 2 seasons.
But by 2012, iConform made that a far less difficult task, it took 2 years to have all of X files' negatives scanned and conformed for finishing work.
Was it a cakewalk, anyone who talks about X files says it wasn't.
No, people who worked on the X files remaster have said it wasn't a cakewalk.
The work they did and the system they built was monumental.
However it was built for a purpose.
The whole point of building that system was to use it to remaster content at scale, it's not a novelty, I think it's far more dismissive of them to say that they shouldn't be using it on DS9 and Voyager.
Or hell, even SG1 and Highlander.
So, you would think that you'd continue using that system to do just the thing it was designed to do, not sit there and continue to pretend like it's impossible.
Posted Oct 14, 2025, 12:50 PM UTC