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Idea: Selectable Optional Scenes on a DVD?

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I’ve seen this done on afew DVD’s but dont know how myself. Has anyone everythought of making a OOT/SE/SSE DVD all in one? where you can select which version you want to watch, as OCP have shown only 10% of the film is changed so it just replacs the scenes that are differnt depending on what version you select. This would be possable with angles if it wasnt for the Jabba Scene.

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Multiple Angles have to be of the exact same length, you could have multiple audio streams and change the angle and audio, but it would be non-seamless.

The only way to properly achieve this is with Seamless Branching / Seamless Multi-Story, which is not possible on any of the DVD authoring tools available to people on this list (unless somebody has a toshiba / panasonic system tucked away which their keeping quiet about )

This comes up every couple of months - short answer is can be done (properly).

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You can do it with stories in DVD Studio Pro. I however doubt that you could fit all that information on a DVD and have it still look good. Even with dual layer technology.

But you can do it no problem with DVD Studio Pro.
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Uh, it can be done. You just have to put the alternate versions of scenes in a different chapter. It's not easy to do, but it can be done.

It would only be practical for movies where only a few scenes are "altered." You can't have a lot of alternate scenes going on. So Star Wars is out of the question.

For a movie that's a "director's cut," though, it's quite easy to place your chapter marks and provide an optional short version which skips certain chapters, and slaps on one or two alternate scenes, say, an alternate ending. Alternate endings are pretty easy to provide, as they start on the same frame as the other ending.
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But can it be done via seamless branching, as on the T2 DVD, or the Alien DVDs, with home equipment?
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In DVD Studio Pro, for Mac, as Mackey said, it's done with Stories.
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I started making such a version for myself using the 2004 dvds and the 1995 french lds. I'm half way through hope. It's a lot of work!
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Personnaly, I really don't like the "chapter system". I have the "Alien Quadrilogy" DVDs and I must say that this system, on a non-high-quality DVD player, it creates interrupts during the viewing (due to the time for the lent to skip a scene, or searching a supplemental scene), and sometimes, the lent go crazy (when the movie has to be calibrated to the audio).
I've experienced that with the Alien box, and I hate that, it really get be "out of the movie", if you see what I mean, especially on the 1st Alien film, where you have choice between the new Director's Cut (in this version, some scenes are not complete, so the lent has to skip some parts of the movie) and the "regular" version (in this one, the let has to skip entire extra scenes)...
Hopefully, I still have the previous DVD box...

So, I really don't know about Star Wars DVDs made in the same way. If it creates the same "interrupts", I will not enjoy it...
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Originally posted by: Mackey256
buy a better DVD player


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My forty-dollar Toshiba deals with any seamless-branched DVDs without any hassle, including the Alien Quad set.