Ok I just bought a new DVD burner a few days ago, I bought it for the sole purpose of home entertainment.
My father is a HUGE! Aliens fan - Yes the Sigourney Weaver ones - and I thought it would be really neat if I could take out the ending credits of the first one and the beginning credits of the second one and link all four together like that for a huge 8 hour movie with no credits except for the very beginning and very end? Is this possible?
If so I’ll do it with Lord of the Rings and certainly with all six Starwars…
You can do it, but you’ll need a very fast computer with LOTS of storage space to work on the film as it gets bigger and bigger. If you want to burn it to a disc, you’ll have to chop it back up to fit over multiple disks, anyway. (An 8 hour movie will not fit on one disc, IIRC).
There’s probably some legalities involved with ripping the movies to your computer in the first place.
If you OWN the titles on dvd I believe you are withint your rights to make backup copies.
As for tryign to put an 8 hour movie on dvd, nope. Not if you plan on watching it on your home dvd player.
If you have the option of watching it on your comp (I have my comp connected to my monior AND my tv, for example) Then you might want to rip the movies, string them together, and encode it with Divx. Then put the file into a dvd.
You won’t be able to watch it on a dvd player, but it will play from your comp.
You can do what you want, but like NoGoodNamesLeft said, the movie is going to either span 3-4 DVD CDs or the bit rate is going to be pretty bad to fit completely on 1 DVD 4.7 GIG CD.
I don’t bother myself (I own 300 DVDs already, no need to pirate DVDs) but you can get software that will automatically change the bit rate to fit into certain media. 4.7 Gigs for an 8 hour movie? 600+ megs per hour. It can be done but it’s gonna look pretty bad (VCD level quality only).
A fast computer isn’t nessessary but it will help (editing can take forever). You will need tonnes of HD space though.
If you OWN the titles on dvd I believe you are withint your rights to make backup copies.
As for tryign to put an 8 hour movie on dvd, nope. Not if you plan on watching it on your home dvd player.
If you have the option of watching it on your comp (I have my comp connected to my monior AND my tv, for example) Then you might want to rip the movies, string them together, and encode it with Divx. Then put the file into a dvd.
You won’t be able to watch it on a dvd player, but it will play from your comp.
You can do what you want, but like NoGoodNamesLeft said, the movie is going to either span 3-4 DVD CDs or the bit rate is going to be pretty bad to fit completely on 1 DVD 4.7 GIG CD.
I don’t bother myself (I own 300 DVDs already, no need to pirate DVDs) but you can get software that will automatically change the bit rate to fit into certain media. 4.7 Gigs for an 8 hour movie? 600+ megs per hour. It can be done but it’s gonna look pretty bad (VCD level quality only).
A fast computer isn’t nessessary but it will help (editing can take forever). You will need tonnes of HD space though.
If you OWN the titles on dvd I believe you are withint your rights to make backup copies.
As for tryign to put an 8 hour movie on dvd, nope. Not if you plan on watching it on your home dvd player.
If you have the option of watching it on your comp (I have my comp connected to my monior AND my tv, for example) Then you might want to rip the movies, string them together, and encode it with Divx. Then put the file into a dvd.
You won’t be able to watch it on a dvd player, but it will play from your comp.
An 8-hour movie might fit on a single DVD were you to rip it into .mpg/VCD format. Again, you will need a robust system and probably a good bit of experience and expertise to pull it off. It is possible, if you want to give it a try. While technically not legal, as long as you are just condensing movies you already own so that you can watch them back-to-back in your own home I doubt you will run into trouble.
I would say that you need at least 20 gigs free; you can just let your computer chug away so the speed is not too much of a problem.
First one to say anything about 80-year-old fantasy weapons technology is gonna get such a pinch.
Phlosphr, your computer can probably beat the pants off mine, but in my experience it takes approximately an hour to encode five minutes of mpeg video.
Hmmm. Well speed and processor size is not a problem, my computer has been on steroids since my brother-in-law got his MA in Computer science 5 years ago. Plus my screen is a 19inch flat with a radeon 9800 vid card…So no problems there.
As for placing them on different CD’s I don’t see a problem with that. We are looking for continuity, not necessarily all in one package. As for legality issues. I’m burning a disc for my father, not making them and selling them to unwary students.
**Editing software suggestions anyone? **
Larry Said -
Whats that mean? I may have a nice machine, but my sav is not quite up to par…
Heck, it takes two minutes, tops, to change DVDs. Your dad may as well take that time to visit the bathroom and get a snack, unless you’re confident he can really sit in one place, kumquat-like, for eight hours straight
I’m not sure what the mods’ views about recommending DVD ripping software – but I’m guessing it’s a verboten subject, even if your intentions are ultimately legal.
Before you can edit it, you’re going to need to rip it. Let’s assume that’s done.
I use a combo of Adobe Premiere and tmpgenc for editing and encoding.
Tmpgenc is pretty intuitive for encoding and is pretty reliable.
For such a simple editing project, you probably have a crippleware CD of something appropriate that came bundled with your snazzy video card that should do just fine.
What I meant by the 5 minutes/hour ratio is that it takes about twelve times the length of a project to encode it.
Got a ninety minute movie to encode? Count on the computer being busy for eighteen hours. Of course, your computer is going to outperform my creaky old 300Mhz PII, although I have no idea by how much, in real terms.
What Larry means is that you’ll have to reencode the video if you want to make it fit on fewer DVDs. DVD video is MPEG-2, with bitrates generally ranging from 6000-10000 Kbps. You reencode to reduce that bitrate, thus making smaller filesizes, thus fitting more video on the DVD. One problem is that most commercial DVDs use dual layers, which means that they can fit twice as much data on one DVD as they can on a DVD-R. A program called DVD2ONE (and a few other programs like it) will very rapidly reencode a dual layer DVD to a single layer one. Problems with this approach are that it’s not very flexible - I don’t think you can snip off the credits, and you don’t have good control over the bitrate, so you can’t fit extra video on the disc.
If you want to do those things, you’re going to have to go a different, and more complicated, route. See my post in this thread for more info. That thread is actually about making (S)VCDs from DVDs, but the concepts are the same. AVIsynth frameserving is probably the least messy way to cut out the end credits. Take note of the Trim(x,y) command I mention in the other thread. Also read the guides I linked to. Also remember that since you’re dealing with film (24 frames per second), you’ll get the best results if you perform IVTC and pulldown on the video. Use Donald Graft’s AVIsynth decomb plugin for this. It is far and away the best implementation of automatic IVTC I’ve run across. There’s a link in the other thread explaining what all of this means, if you’re a little confused.
Good luck, and if you have any more questions, ask away.
I told my brother-in-law how much he could spend and he made me Franken-puter lot’s of beefed up stuff on it, I am not a gamer but the graphics for the games I have seen are pretty nice. I can watch DVD’S on it and do regularly as I have two monitors. a 19 inch flat and a 17 inch flat. One donated to me the other I recently bought. I’ll try what you have said and see what happens…
One thing that may make your father real happy with this: edit the closing credits of the movie and slip his name in there somewhere. Either in place of some actor or technician (“Head Grip: Mr. Phlosphr, Sr.”) or add in some completely new credit (“Thanks to Mr. Phlosphr, Sr., original model for the Alien creature”.)
This is probably an illegal modification of the movie, especially if your father shows it to some friends or relatives. But as long as you don’t sell copies or charge admission, it’s unlikely the movie company will ever prosecute you.
Even more fun if you don’t tell him, but slip the word to your mother or someone else who will be watching with him, and can suddenly ‘notice’ this credit.
Heh heh-- DVD Modding pranks – that reminds me of a story.
I have a friend with whom I have, over the years, indulged in a few lysergic acid-fuelled b-movie and video-game binges. A very memorable one involved a screening of a coupla of Ed Wood efforts for which we supplied our own paratextual subplots which revolved around Bela Lugosi’s frustrated ambitions to become a hairdresser, punctuated by long periods of playing Quake online. We’d play cooperatively against strangers online, which involved a lot of calling from room to room as we jumped from game to game – “Which server are you on?” “Gibby’s Gibbering Gibfest!” “Okay, I’m there.”
The thing is, he was supposed to meet his girlfriend at the beach the next morning – but when the sun came up we were still fairly trippin’, and he ended up calling her to beg off. He got a bit confused during the conversation, though-- because he kept asking her to tell him what server she was on, so he could just meet up with her. I guess he was expecting her to say “Kitz_l3e@ch_//00l3$_0//LY!” or something, and then he could just switch to his sunbather’s skin and meet her at the most convenient spawn point. Needless to say he’s taken some ribbing about this.
Cut forward a couple years. Another b-movie binge looms – premiere attraction is Track of the Vampire. This is a really weird movie starring the fella that played Trelane, the petulant child demigod in the original Star Trek series. It’s a movie about a stereotyped beatnik artist community plagued by a murderous reincarnated painter, spoojed together with apparently random not-quite-stock footage from an unrelated vampire movie.
There’s a scene where the baddy meets his innocent young girlfriend on the beach in the morning, after missing an agreed-on rendezvous. She says “Where were you? I waited all night!” I replaced his reply with my friend’s surreptitiously recorded voice saying “If you’d just tell me what server you’re on, I’ll be right there.” I used to photoshop and winmorph to substitute my friend & his girlfriend’s faces for the two shots. The edited part is only seven seconds long, and then the girl just says “That’s wonderful! Of course I forgive you,” and the scene carries on.
A small thing, but enough of a curve-ball to throw someone under the circumstances, I think.
