Blu-ray Movie Editing - Thoughts?

[chaseter]

Have you ever watched a movie and felt like something needed to be cut out and wished you could craft your own movie from the dvds you spend so much on?

I do

I want to see blurays have that function. How awesome would it be to have the ability to make a fan edit of any movie on dvd and then turn around and watch it in glorious 1080p on a 46"? It is rather basic software that could easily be downloaded onto your PS3 or bluray player to be accessed through your dvd menu. You then highlight portions you want cut and voila, away it goes. You could also be able to add/edit music so that your changes fit in seamlessly. People already do this on their home PC.

Just think of all the possibilities this would open up for re-playability of every single movie you own.

I WANT THIS NOW

 

[Asteroid-Man]

Sony Vegas Pro 9. GO!

 

[dark_b]

how would you fix the music ? since you would take something out the music wouldnt fit.

 

[Carmine Falcone]

Terrible idea, and a disrespectful one at that.

 

[Figs]

Although I agree with Carmine that it's disrespectful, there are a small hand full of films that this would be useful for. Primarily Spider-Man 3.

 

[chaseter]

So it is disrespectful to edit say Spider-Man 3? You own the movie, you bought it. You aren't reproducing it so you can do whatever you want with it. There are already some dvds that allow you to do this but it is limited to extra stuff like angles.

People do fan edits all the time. Do not tell me that there is not one instance of any movie you have ever seen where you thought man, I wish some of those scenes weren't in the movie and I wish I could take them out?

Are fan edits disrespectful? Who is it disrespectful to? Some times the director doesn't have a huge say in how a film gets edited. Are we disrespecting the studio heads that said cut that out or reshoot that?

 

[Jackasscoley15]

Sony Vegas Pro 9. GO!

 

[chaseter]

Can you download that chit on your PS3?

 

[bullets]

I've been wanting to do something like this. reminds me of ' the phantom edit ' . i don't think it's the least bit disrespectful and it would be fun sometime to add deleted scenes back in, etc. I remember there was an extra on the Scream 3 dvd that had ways to rework Cotton's killing.

 

[Leenie]

For me, I wouldn't edit a movie. I'd be too lazy to do it, and if I were in the middle of editing, I'd quit because of boredom.

 

[ross2287]

This has been around for years.

It's called fast-forwarding.

 

[Asteroid-Man]

Terrible idea, and a disrespectful one at that.

That's ********. So when you buy a 2x4 at Home Depot, you can't recut and reshape it to your liking because some carpenter spent a **** load of time cutting and shaping it to the form its in? When you buy a figure, you can't repaint or mold it because someone's already painted and molded it to it's shape when you bought it? When you buy a car, you can't make adjustments to the interior or exterior because it was meant to be that way when you first got it? When you buy a computer, you can't change the parts? Why is it so different with a movie? You've bought it, it's yours, you can do w.e the hell you want with it.

Chaseter, you have to get Sony Vegas 9.0 Pro for your computer. Don't get Platinum Pro (that's the home edition), get the studio edition (just Pro). It also comes with Sony DVD Architect which is used for creating Studio quality DVD Menus. I do this kind of stuff all the time.

 

[Team Andino]

How many people would remove Greedo shooting first??

 

[Passdom]

I think fanedits are laughable.

Some movies may have flaws that people personally dislike, but lets not joke around, I seriously doubt most of the people doing those fanedits have even an ounce of what it takes to make a movie. They don't deserve to alter other peoples work.

Its the worst kind of armchair critcism, and totally disrespectful to the works produced.

 

[SuperFerret]

I can't wait to make Jurassic Jaws Kong 2: The Empire Strikes the Two Towers.

 

[Timstuff]

A friend of mine from another board made a Blu-ray edit of Transformers 2 that looks quite nice on a big screen. It's perfectly doable, you just need the hardware and the software.

 

[Visceral]

Its not disrespectful at all weirdos

 

[Figs]

Its not disrespectful at all weirdos

It is if you respect cinema and the creators of these films. I admit I think it would improve Star Wars taking out the Greedo shooting first thing and some of the dancing stuff in Spider-Man 3 but overall I think a director's film should be left alone. If you don't like it as is, tough ****.

I don't watch Spider-Man 3 so I wouldn't even bother to take out some of the dancing scenes, and maybe some of the crying ones too anyways.

If you don't like the movie because of a few things, although that sucks, just don't watch it.

 

[DACrowe]

\Disrespectful? Arguable, but I"d say editing someone else's work is poor taste and usually would lead to an inferior result. That is like buying a painting and deciding it needs a puppy or rainbow and painting it on yourself. It is not part of the original vision or work that created the image and by doing this, you are drastically altering someone else's vision

Are there things I would like to change like putting a deleted scene back in a movie or taking a scene out? Sure (ex. I would love to put the original ending back to Coppola's Dracula), but it would seem inappropriate and at the end of the day would not look very professional.

HOWEVER...despite what you may feel about the sensitivity of this, there is a LEGALITY factor. And altering a film is violating some form of copyright law I am sure.

 

[Figs]

HOWEVER...despite what you may feel about the sensitivity of this, there is a LEGALITY factor. And altering a film is violating some form of copyright law I am sure.

Although i'm against altering other people's films I think the legal issue would only apply if it's done for production and intent to sell. If it's your own copy and just one they shouldn't be able to do anything about it other than do what they have to to make sure you're in fact not selling it.

 

[Drizzle]

Disrespectful? Maybe. But I'm with those who say once you buy it, you can do what you want with it.

 

[Bruce Malone]

When you go out and buy a painting for your house, do you then pick up a brush and start altering it?

To me this is similar. No way will the industry go along with this. I can imagine what the directors guild or whatever would be saying.

 

[Visceral]

I can rip out any page in a book I bought and theres no copyright infringement.

 

[Bruce Malone]

Yes you can and do you think that's something the book industry should support? Maybe make easier tear-out pages? have books come with black markers so you can black out passages?

 

[chaseter]

DJs must be the most disrespectful people on the entire planet.

Also, this isn't comparable to painting over a priceless painting. The movie is still in its original format on the disc. This would be comparable to doing your own painting of a priceless piece of art and maybe changing one or two things on your painting that you think would be better for your own taste.

Also, there aren't one million Mona Lisa's. If there were, do you think anybody would care if you painted a stache on your copy?