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Originally Posted by bigshoulders
I never, ever thought that Twin Peaks would ever be released with the Pilot, but it happened, so I guess there's hope that someday we'll see his works make the leap to blu. I only hope it's sooner than later.
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Its highly unlikely that "Twin Peaks" or any television show from the last 20 years will ever be released in high-def on Blu-Ray (with a possible very few exceptions).
Since about the mid to late 1980s, all single camera film originated shows, including "Twin-Peaks" have been edited, post-produced and print-mastered in the
Standard-Def NTSC video format.
Here is the industry standard post-production process followed on all film based episodic television shows:
After each day's after studio or location shooting, the exposed film was processed in a standard film lab and the negative dailies were immediately telecined to a standard-def NTSC video master which in the '80s to the early '90s were 1" Type C video tape. In the early to mid-90s, most video houses had upgraded to one of several non-standardized digital video tape formats, but all
standard-def NTSC. The original true high definition camera negatives then went into a vault somewhere, usually never to be seen or touched again.
The first-generation master video tape dailies then were used to create video work tapes, typically in the U-Matic 3/4" format, an industry standard for many years. Its even still occasionally used. A number of VHS copies were typically made too for the producers to review at home or in their offices. The original VT masters were then temporarily vaulted until later in the editing process.
From the 3/4" worktapes, the video dailies were then digitized into an Avid Media Composer, usually at much lower res, typically around VHS quality. The Avid was the first commercially successful non-linear professional quality editing system. From the low-res digital picture playback on the Avid, the picture editor would cut each episode. When the final picture edit was locked, an EDL (edit decision list) was generated. That was used to control playback of the master tapes with all of the dailies which were assembled into the final video master tape, an exact copy of the picture cut the editors created in low-res on the Avid. The final video tape master was used to create either 3/4" or 1/2" VHS copies for the sound post-production including Dialogue, Music, Sound Effects and Foley editing. After the sound was edited, originally on 16 or 24 track tape until the early to mid '90s when most everybody switched over to digital sound editing, all of the sound elements were sent to a film type dubbing stage where the various audio elements were mixed into a 2-Track stereo and then later 4-Track surround folded down to a 2-Track Dolby Stereo LtRt matrix and finally by around 2000, a 5.1 discrete mix. The final audio mix was then laid back onto the master video tape which has now been digitally color corrected so all shots, angles and scenes visually match.
This master video tape was either copied if analogue or cloned if digital and that sub-master is what gets sent off to the network for air or in some cases, just played back at a tech facility in Los Angeles and up-linked to the nets.
The point of this whole speech is to explain that except for the actual day of shooting and processing the film which is obviously a true high-definition source, 99% of all film based TV shows until the late 90s are mastered in standard-def NTSC. To release true high definition Blu-Ray versions of these shows, the original negatives would have to be located and then once again converted to video on a hi-def telecine machine (very expensive process), then hopefully the original EDL can be located (unlikely) so the newly transferred hi-def dailies can be re-assembled into a matching version of the final show as aired and then color corrected. Finally, the original sound elements must be located and are hopefully still in good enough condition to use for a master layback to the new hi-def video master, otherwise the sound-track will have to be stripped off of the original NTSC master (if it still exists) and matched to the new hi-def master.
There may be a very few specific examples of recent shows that were posted in the film domain so the final master is actually a film release-print. if that element still exists, then it actually can be newly telecined in hi-definition. There also may exist a very few early high definition masters of shows that actually were posted in hi-def but they are very rare if they exist at all.
Interestingly enough, most of the prime time programming in the 50s thru the early 80s originated and was completely posted on film so earlier television actually has a better chance of being release in hi-def on Blu-Ray than more recent programming. Obviously video originated programming such as variety shows, talk shows and some sitcoms only exist (if at all) in standard-def NTSC.
If anybody watches HDNet, you can actually see half-hour episodes of Hogan's Heroes from the late 1960s in beautiful high-definition with gorgeous color and fair, mono sound (from an optical track). I believe that HDNet also airs a couple of other 1960s era shows in high definition.
Anyway, that's why you won't see Twin Peaks (the TV series) in hi-def on Blu-Ray any time soon. On the other hand, the feature film called (I think) "Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me" should eventually be available in true hi-def on Blu-Ray.
These days now in 2009, the production and post-production processes are pretty much the same except that more productions are actually being originated on hi-def video which if lit and exposed properly using good lenses, can often compete with film at a far lower cost. In any case, whether film or video originated, everything now remains high definition and in the digital domain, right up until air and into your new TV set.
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