Post by rizdek on Aug 26, 2020 16:21:44 GMT
Aug 26, 2020 15:54:23 GMT _ said:
I have a video editing app that I've been using for ~15 yrs and it allows me to split longer video files...eg a 2 hr movie into shorter segments that serve as chapters if I end up watching part of a movie and want to return to it without watching the entire thing over. It also allows me to take out scenes I don't care to watch over and over again and to x out language I chose not to hear over and over again. I generally watch movies to relax and fall asleep to. So the particularly violent/loud/profane sections don't help with that.
I also have made some shorter, keeping just the main story line.
I have also made a few longer, by combining two films, or adding extra footage.
That reminds me. I really like the movie Groundhog Day, with Bill Murray. I had the dvd and it had 'outtakes'... scenes which didn't make the final cut. I edited MY version so those are now part of the movie I watch. All of the outtakes were interesting and I think it made the movie more enjoyable.
I enjoy a made for TV movie called Supernova 2005 starring Peter Fonda and Luke Perry. The main story...the sun emitting matter/energy and it striking the earth and the struggle to deal with the damage and other reactions such a series of events might result in was fascinating (to me). But it had a whole 'side story' of some psychopath who was after Dr Richardson's (played by Perry) wife. To me...it was totally irrelevant and I went through and extracted just about every scene which was about that side story. The movie flows just as well and I don't have to continually see the parts that, frankly, I didn't find entertaining.
I did the same thing with another tv miniseries called Meteor 2009 starring Christopher Lloyd which is a totally unrealistic (but interesting) movie about a huge meteor that is headed for earth. It had a rather vicious side story about a cop and ex cop which I didn't find to be at all necessary for the main story. I digitized the video and cut out all the scenes about that and the movie is just as 'watchable' and nothing is lost.
The list goes on, but I do it quite commonly. Of course if someone didn't enjoy diddling with video files, they might find that tedious, but it's kind of a hobby for me so it's a win-win.