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Are your comments actually informed or are they just synthesis (guessing)?

> “We had to have some very, very smart people at Pixar go back in and write some software and figure out a way to make it so that those files would render on our current computers,” he said.

>It took four months to resurrect the old data and get it in working order. Then, adding 3-D to each of the films took six months per film.

https://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/04/movies/04murp.html

Sounds like getting the render to work was about as much effort as converting to 3D.