r/Treksons

r/Treksons

r/Treksons

r/Treksons

r/Treksons

r/Treksons

r/Treksons

Originally created around 1999, with clips sourced from VHS recordings of TV broadcasts, the old video looks awful by modern standards. So I decided to recreate it from high quality DVD rips.

The process was a lot more involved than I expected. Every frame of the original was matched against the DVD episodes to find exactly which footage was used, and each shot was rebuilt to follow Saba's timing, including the deliberate stutter and slow-motion effects. The original capture appears to have been done at 15fps and frame-doubled to 30fps, with the occasional dropped or frozen frame from the capture process, so the pacing was smoothed out rather than copied glitch-for-glitch. AI frame interpolation from RIFE filled in the gaps; it made the slow-motion shots smooth, let shots match Saba's pacing exactly, and patched a few faults in the DVD rips themselves. The old video also ran about 0.2% fast, so the song now plays at its true speed and pitch.

Weyoun's monologue at the beginning was ripped straight from the DVD audio for Favor the Bold. I even recreated Saba's original title card, out of respect for his work. Wherever you are, thanks for making an amazing video. It's been watched over and over through the years.

This video wouldn't have been possible without the aid of Claude. It went through 11.5 million frames of DS9 to find the timestamps in the episodes the clips came from, determined where edits needed to be made to tighten up the timing, and did in few hours what it would have taken me weeks to do myself. I would have given up out of frustration long before I got anywhere near the finish line. Hope you all enjoy this, it's been a dream of mine for many years to remaster it.

r/Treksons