Lord Of The Rings trilogy edited together as a single film- anyone done it? (1 Viewer)

[Colton]

Here's my DVD-9 disc ...



One disc to rule them all!
One disc to woo them
One disc to merge them all
And in the darkness ...
View them!

I should clarify that I did not hack off the end credits to Episode 3. That would be sacrilege!

 

[Brett_M]

I could not get tickets to Trilogy Tuesday so I watched the EEs of FOTR and TTT then went to the midnight show of ROTK the same day. I was wiped out after. By the time I got home from the theater, it was 4 am and I went to work with about an hour of sleep.

I should have just stayed up. It was worth it, though. The crowd was totally into it but did not misbehave.

 

[JeremyErwin]

How much video detail was lost?

 

[Leo Kerr]

Depending on the compressor and how much time you had to spend on compressing it, it might not have been too bad.

I'm making a couple of assumptions, too:
1. DD5.1 only; no DTS, narrations, commentaries, et cetera. Maybe even DD2.0; not everyone has a 5.1 compressor, though even so, that can be fudged around.
2. drop the subtitles - not that it saves much, but just because every bit helps
3. multi-pass variable bit-rate compression.

I'd do it as multiple "titles" on the disc, linking between, just because it'd make the compression side a little easier - being able to work with the individual movies - or parts of movies - rather than having to work with the whole unwieldy mass. Of course, you have to do at least two titles, splitting accross the two layers.

So out of perverse curiosity, what sort of machine did you do the job on, and how long did the compress take?

 

[Colton]

At the time, I think my CPU was a 2.4Ghz and 2gb RAM. Using Canopus EDIUS Pro with Hi-Def codec it took alittle over 18 hours.

 

[Brian W.]

I detest it when people misspell the word "capitalize" with an "s." Here in America, we spell it with a "z."

 

[Qui-Gon John]

I agree. Plus you gotta lose a lot of picture quality squeezing all onto even 1 DVD9. Otherwise each of the EE's could have been on 1 disk, not 2.

Just seems kinda pointless, IMHO.

 

[Bonedwarf]

How come nobody has mentioned the possibility of using AVI? I mean the TV scene standard is 350 megs for 45 minutes. 1.4 gigs for 3 hours. I've been toying with doing this for a while, and I'd be using AVI to do it myself. I've already done an edit of "Grand Prix" which removes all the dialog and just leaves the wonderful car footage.

I watched Fellowship tonight and was noting where I could make edits.

Also planning to do an edit of 300.