Directors cut vs Movie

[macsys]

When backing up every once on awhile I will get the directors cut instead of the movie. How do I tell the difference?

[tgpo]

....huh?

Please try and explain this again because I'm not understanding. THe director's cut is a version of the movie, you buy it.

[macsys]

With some movies you have the regular movie and you also get the directors cut. Really the only difference between the 2 is that in the directors cut you get the directors voice over instead of the actual movie voices. Otherwise the movie itself is the same it's just the voices that are different.

[jbenj01]

I think what you're referring to is the 'director's commentary' audio track. In order to get the film's audio, you'd have to go into the main menu for the DVD and turn off the director's commentary.

[tgpo]

Okay, now I understand.

As jbenj01 was saying you are refering to director's commentary. When you rip make sure that you are getting all audio tracks, not just one.

What program do you rip with?
What are you doing after you rip? DVD-R? VCD?

[macsys]

Think I actually figured it out. I'll let the pro's tell me. I am using DVDBackup, DVD2One. The it's a 7 gig dvd. The first one I cut I selected movie only and for audio I did 2 channel. When I recut it the second time I selected the 6 channel audio and it worked.

[tgpo]

Typically that's how it is. 6ch is movie sound 2ch is commentaries. I talked a little bit about that in my DVD2OneX tutorial.

[willrob]

I think there is another meaning to "director's cut." While the names of the DVDs don't come to me right now, I know I've rented titles where an extended version of the film (made up of outtakes that the director would have liked to have included in the theatrical release) can be accessed via a menu.
One can see two versions of the movie: the theatrical release, and a longer version, which more than likely uses the same original film but pops in the deleated scenes. Most titles leave the deleated scenes to a menu by themselves, but a few have this second version of the film as an automatic playing sequence. In a case like that, I'm not sue what one would get by selecting "Movie only."

william

[tgpo]

Actually that's sorta true. JUst because a movie puts the deleted scenes back into a movie doesn't make it the director's cut, it just makes it an extended cut. A director's cut includes all the scenes the director wanted but was forced for some reason to change, such as Blade Runner where the studio demanded a happy ending, but the director didn't. So the regular release is a happy ending, the director's cut is the down ending. Some director's cuts would remove scenes. If the director for Dark City would have had his way the opening explination would have been removed, so if a Director's cut is ever released it may run shorter than the regular version.

In a nutshell: A Director's cut is a version of the movie that the director helped edit together in the way he liked, before the studio and the MPAA and everyone else got their hands on it and put their words in.