ALIEN : VIRTUAL WORKPRINT V2 / EXTENDED WORKPRINT (working title) — Page 3

Could you give me an example of something you think would work better in a different order? I’m not cutting any footage out, but if you think things could be reordered, I’d love suggestions.

And yeah, it’s 100% not Goldsmith, clearly some temp. But if I could find out what it was and find its source (because it’s covered with on set audio). I may restore it because i think its kinda interesting.

Sorry for the late reply.

I tried to see what I could do in terms of rearranging shots in Brett’s death, but any alterations I made only served to make the scene more awkward.

And while I agree getting rid of those short closeups of the alien’s face, the object of this cut in my mind has been to keep all the footage I can, above all else.

For an update, not much. Things have been progressing steadily. But it’s just obsessive little polishes I keep making.

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Puny update: all the previously interlaced footage (including the majority of the chestburster scene I showed before) is now non-interlaced because I figured out how. So that’s good.

benduwan said:

DestronTC said:

Puny update: all the previously interlaced footage (including the majority of the chestburster scene I showed before) is now non-interlaced because I figured out how. So that’s good.

what do you do?

I ripped my alien dvds to a folder with WinX DVD ripper, and then ripped the scenes from there with handbrake with the deinterlace filter on.

I am really looking forward to seeing your finished product, DestronTC. I’ve enjoyed what I’ve read and seen so far.

Okay

Basically, I stopped working on it again. I made the entire thing in a 30fps timeline in vegas because I didn’t know when I started how framerates and interlacing and stuff works, but now I do. And it began to bug me so much I put it down. I have to start over.

I do have a version mostly done on my desktop. Its just the fps.

I’ll finish it one day. Probably with the BD as the main source.

HEY, so story is, like I said in my previous post from two hecking years ago(!!!) I totally finished the Alien Uncut edit.

I just always hated it because the framerate is a not very consistent 30, the quality isn’t what it should be, and it’s a ridiculous 20 gigabyte file. I made the damn thing when I was just starting to get into video editing and I had no idea about anything.

That being said, from what I remember I was always happy with the way it was cut. I got all the shots just where and how I wanted them.

So I was skimming through some old hard drives randomly and decided “what the hell?” I’ll upload that Alien edit I did so many moons ago. When I rewatched it, all the problems I mentioned above really didn’t bother me as much as they once did. I also re-encoded it to a much nicer file size for you guys.

If anyone is still interested in this ridiculous behemoth, I hit up a 'spleen mod yesterday, so hopefully I’ll be putting it there.

I still maintain that I might go back and redo it from the ground up one day, but I thought everybody should at least see it as it is now.

I’ve always felt bad about not releasing this edit or going back to give it another shot. It makes me so sad - the amount of fan projects I see on this site that just drop off and never get finished with no closure at all, and I didn’t want mine to be one of those.

Ay, while waiting for word from myspleen, I’ve uploaded it on Mega for shits and giggles, PM me if you want the link.

Hey thanks, and radical can’t wait to see it.

Yeah, I mean the bad quality and jankiness is the main reason I have distaste for it. I would like to go back and remake it with the BD at some point in the future, but I mentioned all that before.

I was tossing this idea around in my head. Maybe two versions: 720x480 to match low quality behind the scenes footage, and one in 1920x1080, but with a high quality 35mm grain plate over all the sub-hd footage to give it some fake detail. I believe Harmy’s Despecialized Editions did the same thing. Maybe, maybe not. Just an idea.

I mentioned all the sources I used in the readme, but it really just boiled down to anything and everything that came on the 6-disc Anthology BD, and the alternate audio track from the 1999 Legacy DVD.

In all the stuff you mentioned owning, is there anything special that isn’t on the BD set that could be used? Besides Giger’s Alien, that is, which I can get off the 'spleen.

cosmicjazz said:
Giger’s Alien, that is, which I can get off the 'spleen.

Have you though about using any of the footage from the Alien Makers DVD series?

I’ve skimmed through those but never watched them completely. Never saw any footage in them, is there any?? That’d be bonkers.