Star Trek meets applause in the Fun and Nostalgic Made opening mashup

What do you get when I mix the Enterprise-D crew with the warm and welcoming atmosphere of Greetings? A video made by fans who is pure gold of the 80s.

This perfectly modified mashup falls Star Trek: The Next Generation in the iconic approach of GreetingsSynchronizing the timeless musical theme “Where Where Know Your Name” by Gary Portnoy with retro VHS style films of the beloved TNG crew.

Guard Patrick Stewart ‘S picard, Jonathan Frakes’Riker, Brent Spiner’S DataAnd the rest of the team in this reinvented opening is unexpectedly moving. It is the type of magic crossover that works.

The video came with the following long note that detailed the creation process:

“This mashup Reimmagina Star Trek: the crew of the next generation in the style of the applause.” Where everyone knows your name “, written by Gary Portnoy and Judy Hart-Angelo and recorded by Portnoy in 1982, is in my modest opinion the largest television show of all helmets.

“More technical details for those interested in how it was made: for music, the longest part was actually arriving with the texts – I wanted 3 weeks until I was quite satisfied with the rhymes to go on with this project (” Frequency of the undernospace “was the great turning point!) I recorded the song with me that I sang and playing slowly on my phone.

“So he used the Suno cover function to add drums/bass/improved singing. So I downloaded the stems and put in Ableton Live where I removed some tools (the violins and added synthesizers are not necessary, I wanted it as simple as the original).

“I didn’t like the drums very much, so I added some samples of drums in some parts, and I also added harmonies that I recorded. Then he did everything, he added a little saturation (Fabfilter Saturn 2) and a little glue compression (they don’t need much with the things that came out of Suno). Breaking the song and reduced a little to give him more films on a sound.

“You could ask you why to use Suno and not just lie down some simple tracks in Ableton – Well, it is purely a saving of time. Instead of a few hours it is a few minutes to get an approximate version to start mixing/modifying, also I am not a great singer and this makes me save by bringing a singer to record.

“For the video, Chatgpt helped to generate the images as close as possible to the shots in applause, so I used Photoshop to add some old-fashioned filters and the de-release (to look more like the original in which oranges and pop reds). I tried to imitate the Panning and the zoom of each blow in the original.

“The” Startrek “logo brought me forever because I did not know how to create the effect of metal shine that crosses the logo in the original show, so I used photoshop to generate 50 frame images for frame (with various effects of external glow/emboss) and I manually animated.

“It is not as good as the original, but it is the best I was able to collect. Even text credits have used a bit because I could not color the characters (only the colored contour), so I have raster everything, the selected colors, the filling added, etc. yes, it is not a perfect filling of orange gradient to yellow but this is the type of detail that only a person obsessive (like me) would notice.

“In Resolve, I added some levels of adjustment for the blur and a little analog damage (I love this effect) with pre -setting of the 80s and some changes to the settings. For the opening scene, I used WAN to create a video from the image of the shuttle on the street, to imitate the original show that has car and traffic outside the bar before moving on to the stopped shot.

“So yes … that’s how a simple -looking video can actually take about a dozen hours. I hope you like it.”