The Butterfly Effect

[Casper66]

Just thought I would drop this note of caution and see if anyone else has experienced it. When I went to backup up The Butterfly Effect (Director's Cut) using DVD Shrink, it would not compress down far enough to fit on a DVD+R without having to remove something. I have never experienced this and was curious about the whole thing. Looks like DVD Shrink will only go to 43.7%, further more, the quality drops off rapidly at that compression. Anyway, these are just my rantings for the day.

[luphy]

Can't really blame DVDShrink on that. Each disc is different and some can compress more than others.

If you want to compress it more, just re-process the first Shrink output through Shrink again.

But of course quality will suffer. At that point, best to go with CCE or split to two disc.

[geffroman]

Splitting this one to Two disc isn't a good option cause it's one of those Infinifilms that has many extras tied to the movie...

You kinda need to go Movie Only (with or without menu) or use CCE... And by the way I found with extra sound tracks removed (DTS also removed) you can get the whole disk to 54% which will work with CCE OK if you don't need a perfect image... I prefered the movie with menus and dumped all extras, kept DTS & 5.1 & Drectors Commentary... Then I ran Shrink @ 77.8%... Came out great but I did notice that even the original was not the best video quality...

Surprisingly this movie has no Subtitles either...

[MysticE]

If you noticed on the Director's Cut side the movie was listed twice, hence all the space. The actual film itself came in at about 4G. By the way, the Director's Cut ending was so lame.

[geffroman]

Originally posted by MysticE
If you noticed on the Director's Cut side the movie was listed twice, hence all the space. The actual film itself came in at about 4G. By the way, the Director's Cut ending was so lame.

YA... but that was only navigation... it used the same VOB ID as source... So back to my earlier point... To keep extras on this one at all requires a ONE disc approach which causes BIG compression...

[Holomatrix]

Originally posted by MysticE
By the way, the Director's Cut ending was so lame.
hehe, I agree, .... mothers womb, Crazy :)

[Holomatrix]

Originally posted by geffroman
Duh... why don't you remove that... whats the point of ruining the movie for others...

There, people who haven't see it yet won't get it now... Your turn knucklebrain, why would you quote me ...


EDIT: @Casper66 - Did you prefer the Director's cut version compaired to the theatrical version? Just wondering because doing movie only with the theatrical version will give you 100%. How much did the director's version get to when you cut some stuff?

[Deviant]

Originally posted by Holomatrix
There, people who haven't see it yet won't get it now... Your turn knucklebrain

Thank you for your consideration of others....:rolleyes:

[Deviant]

Originally posted by geffroman
What are you thanking him for...? He's the @$$ that posted the ending in the first place...

Can't you tell with the rolleyes smiley that I was being sarcastic? If not then yeah...I was being sarcastic...posting the end of a film without any consideration is just plain stupid.

[Holomatrix]

Ok girls, no need to get your skirts in a truffle :) Sorry, for my earlier opinion (2cents). Casper66, I would backup the theatrical version instead anyway, it's better in two ways. Compressibility and version :)
Enough said by me :) See ya