I can speak as someone who's had this attempted.Ashyukun wrote:This actually brings up something I've been curious about for a while- what the general opinion on 'remastering' other people's older videos is.
Jingoro, he of the Disney DDR project, tried to remaster my Nausicaa video using a widescreen LD copy of the film, and hit a major stumbling block. See, I used Warriors of the Wind, and there's one shot in my video, perfectly clean, that has big fat Japanese credits plastered over it on the LD.
To get back to the original question, I didn't know at first that he was planning on it, but once I found out I had no problem with it, mainly because I knew him and was friends with him. As such I had no problem with it--and it's an amusing story to boot.
I'd be willing to bet that a creator like C-ko wouldn't have much problem with someone making his videos look better, so long as they were shot-for-shot identical and still credited to C-ko, perhaps with a smaller remastering credit for yourself.
Still wouldn't hurt to ask first, unless you're in the situation I was.
