>Will you be hiring or forming a new CGI team to
>handle the Ranger film?

Yes, we'll be looking to employ a new EFX firm, probably in the Vancouver area.

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>And more importantly, will new B5 CGI content finally
>use a true 16:9 square pixel ratio of sufficient
>resolution for HD (e.g. 1280x720p) thereby avoiding
>any cropping/zooming for a 16:9 frame and the resultant
>loss in resolution.

We've already discussed shooting it in wide, and *editing* in wide (rather than
4:3 as we did on the B5 series) and then *compositing and creating cgi* in
wide, so that however it gets initially shown, it'll exist from the git-go in a
true wide version.

jms

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