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posted about this over at FE, but I thougth I’d cut n paste a few bits of info over here too:

Hi all,

I’ve just begun jamming on a possible edit of Lost. Now I freaking LOVE this show…its TV porn as far as I’m concerned, and as the the last season has progressed I havent been able to stop thinking about editing eveything together in chronological order, flashbacks, flashforwards, the main island story, the lot.

I’ve made a start, and instantly I can tell that its not gonna be pretty. Lots of hard cuts and audio issues. And secondly, its gonna be very long, so I dont know how I’m gonna break it down, but like I said I’m only just playing around with it at the moment so we’l see how it pans out

my current plan, having done the first season, is to continue until season 5 has been released and incorportated and then release in in hourly episodes, most likely as avi files, to serve as a complete catch up to the final season. As i said, I’ve done the first season, using various fansite timelines, and its actually really interesting. Can’t wait to to start on season 2!

BTW I forgot to mention that I’m gonna be including all deleted scenes, deleted flashbacks, webisodes and possibly ARG footage

ok so ive hit my first snag (of many I presume), my season 1 boxset is region 2 but seasons 2 & 3 are region 1 (cheaper to buy from the US than here in the UK), and therefore NTSC. I’ve ripped the first disc of S2 but when I drag it into womble all i get is audio and no sound.

do i need to somehow convert the discs from NTSC to PAL or is there an easy way around this?

good old womble…i simply started a new project and imported the NTSC vobs, then exported them as a mpeg to use in my original project file…works a treat!!

and for those of you who are Lost fans, I tell you, this projects getting me excited! and I’m doing my best not to even spoil myself as I work lol, but theres some really interesting connections to be made whilst putting it all in order

And unfortunatly my quick n easy NTSC-PAL conversion in Womble hasn’t been as useful as I’d hoped, with some serious audio issues, so I’m still working on that one.

Other news, season 1 is practically done n dusted. All the deleted scenes and flashbacks fom the DVD boxset have been inserted into their proper places, although I’m missing the deleted scenes from the US releases of ‘The Lost Chronicles’ book with bonus DVD and the Best Buy Bonus DVD (searching for these though). I’ve also included the season 1-centric webisodes. As I’ve mentioned, this will be a warts-n-all edit, with less worrying about matching footage and more emphasis on the chronological aspect.

By the way, with the work done so far I’m clocking in at 17 and a half hours, so if you use that estimate for each season this whole edit could potentially run at 85 hours!!! So distrubution methods are still being considered and I’m open to ideas or suggestions…

FINISHED:
The Sith Revealed - A Scrapbook
Episode III The Video Game - The Movie
24: The Missing Day
Star Wars - The Interactive Board Game DVD
Battlefront - Journal of the 501st
The Clones Revealed

email me for details daveytod AT btinternet DOT com

 

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85 hours! Yes, but no, but yes, but damn!

This would make a fab box set davey! Yet distribution would be a major problem unless you forward the disks beforehand maybe. Sort of Pay It Backwards.

Myself, i aint ever had a problem playing back NTSC disks in PAL land (as i have the US season 1 import), so i guess it depends on your player.

I always love the deleted scenes, in any edit so, hoorah to that.

Keep pluging away............
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I don't mean to sound negative here but If we'd need to invest that much time onto watching it then why not simply watch the original episodes?

I am interested in what you have in mind though, Good luck with this.

Does this mean you are going to begin the story before the characters arrive at Sydney airport?
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Darth Solo said:

Myself, i aint ever had a problem playing back NTSC disks in PAL land (as i have the US season 1 import), so i guess it depends on your player.


I wish it was that easy, its actually having both NTSC and PAL sources together in the same editing program thats causing the problems

Johnny Ringo said:

I don't mean to sound negative here but If we'd need to invest that much time onto watching it then why not simply watch the original episodes?


Its just an new perspective...I've already watched all the episodes as they aired, watching this will provide a fresh insight as I go into the final season

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Does this mean you are going to begin the story before the characters arrive at Sydney airport?


Yep, the project currentley opens with young Jack getting beaten up, but I've only done season 1...the earliest flashback to date is John Locke being born...which will be a very interesting opening if some of my theories about the show are right

FINISHED:
The Sith Revealed - A Scrapbook
Episode III The Video Game - The Movie
24: The Missing Day
Star Wars - The Interactive Board Game DVD
Battlefront - Journal of the 501st
The Clones Revealed

email me for details daveytod AT btinternet DOT com

 

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Wow. I've been thinking about a chronological edit of Lost for ages. If you manage to pull this off, I will do what I can to pass this around. I'm in the UK too, so that might be a bit of help to you.
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How about putting all the spoilers for the show on one or two discs? Seems a worthwhile effort for this waste of broadcast time called a series.