Here’s the plan. Though the MiniDV master is a tad soft compared to how ReDux turned out, I’m not going to do a complete overhaul of the video. I was considering picking up Cowboy Bebop Remix for that purpose, but after reading that the video transfer is exactly the same as the 2000 release, I decided it wasn’t necessary. The difference really is negligible. Instead my focus will be on technical tweaks, mostly remixing the soundtrack where possible (the louds in FBBB are way too loud) and cleaning up lip-synch and rogue interlaced frames that slipped through. I will also have to recapture clips where noticeable frame dropping occured in the export to tape. And finally I will update the end credit roll for changes in licensing that have occurred and to put the proper date at the end (2002).

I’m going to go through the video pretty much chronologically. I changed the Sokodei logo to the widescreen version that now appears in front of Nescaflowne and ReDux. The only real change I considered to the opening was redoing the “video rack” shot so that the signs don’t “float” over the rack. However, it seems that would require making MASSIVE picture files in order for the signs to remain both fixed and legible, which I’m not sure my old PC can handle the rendering for. I’m going to fiddle with it a bit more but since the shot already works so well, I won’t be too heartbroken if I can’t fix it.