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Pretty sure the way it works, only a single title from the BDMV will get indexed in the Infuse library. 99% of the time, the feature length. In this particular case, the 35 min extra. Maybe if I change the folder name and back again, it will re-read the volume correctly and pick up the title with the longest duration.
Yes, I did play the title when i saw it in the Shorts. I then pulled down the Video menu and selected the longer 2+hr title. If you quit and play again, it keeps going back to the title that Infuse has indexed, that being the 35 min extra. Thats why I thought if i rescan the media file again and current Infuse has used a latter version of ffprobe than when I scanned in the complete library, it may rectify the issue. Although, i did complete a full rebuild of the metadata DB after cast and crew picture functionality was released.
OK, gonna lay this one down to rest and just say its one of those things we cant do much about.
My confirmation is via looking at my movie collection in TMM (v4.2.5.1) after a complete DB rebuild. Pretty sure it uses ffprobe to gather media info and it has listed Clueless (BDMV) as 18 mins, Death Proof (BDMV) as 31 mins, Only Lovers Left Alive (ISO) as 34 mins and Vampires (BDMV) as only 2 mins. It also has the X Files movie (BDMV) as a whopping 349 mins. Infuse also struggles with Clueless (no runtime provided) and X Files movie as 65 mins. So, sticking to mkv and mp4 single title rips seems to be the best way to avoid this nonsense.
@james , letting you know that v7.4.5 seems to have corrected this problem. Southland Tales is now showing the correct movie length. I thought I would retest as I noticed a revision to BDMV logic was mentioned in the change log.
Movies have entertained people for over 100 years since the Kinetoscope, which allowed audiences to view moving pictures. People were once mesmerized by rapid images moving across the screen, which lasted just a few minutes. A century later, people are complaining that movies are getting too long.
Every year, I hear the same complaint about movies on the big screen: Movies are getting so damn long! We're almost to the point that moviegoers should start demanding an intermission for some of these behemoths of film.
But then I started wondering: Are movies really getting longer than they used to be? Or are a few outliers--like The Lord of the Rings series--skewing our perception of what's really going on? To address this question, I turned to IMDB and gathered the 25 most popular movies from each year from 1931 through 2013. Below is the average feature film length over that time period.
With the introduction of the television in the 1930s and 1940s, the movie industry suddenly had a competitor. In response, movie producers were forced to raise the bar and start producing more epic films to keep audiences packing the theater. The result? Feature films gained an extra 30 minutes between 1931 and 1960, which set the standard in film for the next 50 years, and eventually led to the blockbuster phenomenon.
It's strange that the average feature film lost about 10 minutes during this period. The only explanation I can think of is the videotape format war in the 1970s, where VHS and Betamax were battling it out to become the dominant movie format. Could the eventual dominance of VHS caused movie producers to keep their films shorter and well under the 2 hour mark?
Between 1985-2000, feature films grew back to the same length as in the 1960s. This may explain why it's usually Millennials (born 1980-2000) complaining that movies have gotten longer than they used to be: If you grew up watching movies in the 1980s, they have gotten longer for you! Meanwhile, Generation Xers are shaking their head at Millennials wondering what the heck they're talking about (as usual).
Perhaps the most relevant time period for us to look at is 2000-2013, because these are the movies that are the freshest in our mind. Interestingly, the average feature film hasn't gotten much longer since the turn of the century, keeping with the status quo established in 1960. This is just averages over a bunch of movies, though. What if we compare the longest feature film each year? Surely modern movies are longer than the old ones that had to fit on a VHS tape.
Several people commented that only looking at the top 25 most popular films each year could possibly have biased this analysis, so here's the average feature film length for all feature films in the IMDB database between 1906 and 2013.
[caption id="attachment_2677" align="aligncenter" width="947"] The blue area indicates 1 standard deviation for feature film length each year
Mean and error bars have been smoothed with a rolling average (window = 5)[/caption]
Although the overall average film length is much lower than the top 25's average film length, the same main trends still hold: Up until the 1950s, feature films grew by 15-30 minutes. Then after the 1950s, the average movie hovered around 90 minutes. Interestingly, the trend here shows that movies have been getting a little bit shorter in the past few years. We'll have to revisit this data in a few years to see if that trend holds.
I parsed through the IMDB "running times" list and grouped the films by year. For each year, I saved the 25 films with the most IMDB user ratings to build a list of the most popular films for each year. Number of IMDB user ratings is a reliable measure of a film's popularity because popular films that were highly successful in the box office--and thus had millions of people watching them--generally receive far more user ratings on IMDB than unsuccessful films.
The above is the same reason why I picked the 25 most popular films instead of looking at all films each year: The 25 most popular films are the films that had the lion's share of people watching them in theater, thus they are a better representation of the films the average moviegoer experienced that year.
So because of this, if, on the rare occasion, I do actually settle on a film, it must be of a reasonable length, because it is already midnight and I have work tomorrow. In essence: the movie must be 90 minutes long.
One hour and one half is the perfect length for a movie, and this is something I feel very strongly about, and not only because of the above reason. A plethora of reasons, all extremely important and worthy of your time. Please, actually please, listen - I am giving a correct opinion on the internet and everyone should listen.
Around this time 28 Days Later and Shaun of the Dead were released. Seeing these films was a revelation. Here were two drastically different movies, technically about the same thing, both with low budgets. What blew me away was their inventiveness and originality in a film genre that most people had written off as being over.
I felt it deeply. I could do something original and cool, like these guys. Or, at least, better than the garbage I was seeing at Blockbuster. But that confidence would quickly erode away when I started thinking about how to actually make a movie.
The very first short I worked on was a collaboration with a couple of friends of mine who happened to work for a video production company. We were lucky enough that their co-workers agreed to help out by shooting and editing the short with company equipment.
Getting locations was approached in a similar fashion: I looked at what I had for free first, confirmed I could use them, then wrote something that took place there. For instance Sassy Cops was shot primarily at the office Ed works at, or Action City Bathroom was filmed entirely in, you guessed it: my bathroom. Other great locations were found right outside my door and all around Chicago. Frosty Heart and Chinese Star Cop both use the city as a backdrop.
To my surprise, the film festival was a bust. Instead of the industry people I thought would be at my screening, it was instead attended by other filmmakers, who seemed to look down on my short because it was low-budget, and low-production-value.
It seemed every other filmmaker at SXSW went to a film school and/or lived in an industry town, and had come with the notion of being discovered too. But unlike me, they were carrying around a big amount of film related debt and a bigger sense of entitlement.
Luckily, since David was also at SXSW, I spent a majority of the time with people in the interactive portion, and the experience greatly shaped my filmmaking attitude and life today. At the same festival, intermixed with depressing self-entitled filmmakers, was a passionate group of young entrepreneurs who shared my ideas on pursuing your passion with limited resources, and finding creative ways to reach your goals. Everyone I met was so excited and happy, talking about new ideas and ways of distribution. I was meeting people who were successful at the thing I was trying to do: reach people.
I raised $2,000 using Kickstarter. This is, of course, nothing compared to some of the more recent success stories. To be honest, I could have done the film without it, but raising money on Kickstarter gave me some important side-benefits:
In my first few years of teaching ESL, I always thought that movies and videos in English would be great resources to use in class. But whenever I tried to use them, it never worked well. The students could barely understand anything, and the whole experience just ended up being frustrating for both my students and me.
Then I found out about MovieTalk, and it totally changed my approach to using movies and videos. It helped me find a way to make those videos comprehensible to my students, so they could both enjoy the videos as well as receive a lot of oral input in English while watching.
Of course, there are numerous other activities you can do to review the movie. You can use pretty much any activity that you would use with any other type of story or text. Here are just a few other ideas:
Perhaps this is possible already somehow. But sometimes i just want to watch a movie of 90 mins or under 2hrs etc. At the moment i find myself going through quite a big library of movies one by one checking their run time. It would be great to sort/filter by run time or have the option to create a collection of movies under 90 mins, under 2 hrs etc. I'm sure there's probably other ways it could be done.
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