After some success recreating the opening teaser using a combination of sources, we decided to try something a little more difficult. The clips used in the trailer were very short, “quick edit” type clips lasting only a couple of seconds each. With such a dizzying pace it was relatively easy to conceal differences in sources …
Next up was a reconstruction of the cliffhanger conclusion to “The Deadly Dust.” This was challenging in a different way, because if the original two-part version of TDD has aired anywhere since 1978 we are not aware of it. All of the cable and satellite reruns have used the same omnibus version that was released …
After what we are considering a smashing success with the Joanna Cameron scene – which seemed like a great place for a bunch of nerds to start – we’ve made a couple of other test clips using our “Deadly Dust” sources. The first is a recreation of the opening teaser and title sequence using all-new …
This is a test run to see how far we can push a poor quality source. The original source here was a heavily compressed and pixelated copy of The Deadly Dust that we found online. Its original resolution was 668×558 and 25fps. It seems to have been taken from a fairly high quality print, and …
The single biggest challenge to restoring all 13 episodes to their original broadcast condition is finding high-quality source material to work with. The quality is all over the map in terms of what’s out there, and we will be using various parts of all of these to create our definitive edition. For instance, we might …
