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Post #770403

Author
Jonno
Parent topic
ALIEN : VIRTUAL WORKPRINT V2 / EXTENDED WORKPRINT (working title)
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Date created
16-May-2015, 4:49 AM

That's quite effective - the balanced picture quality and smoothed out sound mix make for a very convincing whole.

You're running into an issue that I found when I played with Alien footage myself, though. It seems Scott shot a great deal of coverage on certain sequences (perhaps most), giving himself plenty of options in the editing room. As a result, the 'official' presentations of deleted scenes assembled at different times - appearing in the old laserdisc package, the DC and various documentaries - include alternative footage of the exact same events. If you try to combine everything and waste nothing, you end up with a great deal of redundant material (hence Ripley taking a full minute to climb down the ladder).

If you're going to edit a version of the film that's both extended and coherent, you'll have to make some choices about which shots/angles you prefer - an edit that incorporates 100% of the available footage will be somewhat repetitive, to say the least. My advice is to let go of absolute completion and be prepared to get creative.

benduwan said:

do you combine all releases of alien and including all deleted scenes they out there?

a 3h movie?

why you don´t use the bluray?

He answered all of these questions in the first post, if you read it.