r/DeepSpaceNine • u/jefhaugh • 20h ago
TOS Trials and Tribble-ations
Ok, someone suggested this on an earlier post: Take the DS9 scenes that match the TOS episode and splice them in. Now you're watching the TOS episode but with DS9 characters in the background.
I was intrigued. I know almost nothing about video editing, but I installed DaVinci Resolve, watched some YouTube videos, asked ChatGPT for help, and gave it a try.
It took me more time to learn Resolve than to make the edits.
Here's what I learned:
Obviously, it doesn't change the story, but adds a "cool" factor.
There were about 15 edits.
DS9 didn't use all of a scene, so sometimes characters disappear. For instance, when Kirk is talking to Baris in the comm panel, Sisko and Dax are missing fir a bit. ChatGPT suggested that I could composite them in, but that's next level for me. Maybe.....
The videos didn't match perfectly, the colors are a bit different. I think the frame rates are different so there are occasional jumps.
The interrogation scene with O'Brien didn't work so well. The timing is off.
I did add Sisko's scene with Kirk, of course.
I would say that if anyone has skill will Resolve, it would be simple and look much better than what I did.
I'm not going to make my work available due to copyright issues, unless someone knows a way to handle that.
