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Topic: How To Play an ISO Score on DVD ... ?

H Rocco
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I know how to RUN the DVD (it's a function of the iMac), but the soundtrack only seems to want to play the score in REAL time: if you jump to the isolated-score function, that seems to mean you get the isolated music, yes, but ALSO have to WAIT for acres of time in between the cues.I am currently running L.A. CONFIDENTIAL, which MIGHT be unique, but have had the same problem with other DVDs (in my very limited experience so far.) This may sound terribly naive, but I kind of thought that the concept behind ISO scores meant they could be accessed cue-for-cue like a CD. Not so, eh? (At least not now.)
So is there a trick to it? Or do I just have to skip around chapter-to-chapter? (Not that there's much music missing from the existing score CD of L.A. CONFIDENTIAL, but I'm entitled to be curious, right?)
posted 09-27-2000 01:20 PM PT (US) 
Marian Schedenig

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No trick, no way! That's why I prefer to make CDR's from the iso scores.NP: Chicken Run
posted 09-27-2000 01:31 PM PT (US) 
H Rocco
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grrrr, I was afraid of that ...
posted 09-27-2000 03:07 PM PT (US) 
Wedge

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Sorry, Roc. To my knowledge, the only score that is programmed like a CD is Goldsmith's "The Mummy" ... and possibly some other scores which appear as menu easter-eggs. Unfortunately, with most players you can't fastforward, rewind, or pause on a menu.
posted 09-27-2000 04:03 PM PT (US) 
Marian Schedenig

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Rocco, see it positively: The great thing about iso scores is that you can watch the movie with the score only playing, exactly where it belongs. That's something you can't do with CDs (sometimes you can, but it's hard work).The problem is that the music tracks are usually exactly the same as those used in the movie, with all edits made to make it fit. That's why I'd like to know if there are some of these edits on the LA Confidential DVD - I haven't seen the movie or heard the score, but if the score is on the DVD withOUT annoying cuts, I might get the DVD instead of the CD.
NP: Tristan und Isolde (Richard Wagner)
posted 09-27-2000 04:14 PM PT (US) 
SEBULBA

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Marian, there are a couple of bad cuts on the DVD of L.A. Confidential. I burned this to cd myself. But there's really only an extra 10 minutes of music. My complete score cd is only 40 minutes long. That's all of the Goldsmith music.
posted 09-27-2000 04:34 PM PT (US) 
Marian Schedenig

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Thanks. So I take it the CD is more worthwhile, right?
posted 09-27-2000 04:58 PM PT (US) 
SEBULBA

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I guess so. Plus, it's a good movie. It does also have all of the music from the soundtrack also. So you could burn a complete soundtrack with score and all.
posted 09-27-2000 05:35 PM PT (US) 
Swashbuckler

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The isolated score is only one of many features on the L.A. Confidential DVD making it worth owning. There is also a series of interviews with director Curtis Hanson in which he describes the genesis of the project, and how he pitched it to the studios.There is also a really cool "Map of L.A." feature that is what it seems. Using the remote, you can highlight a particular location that appears in the film, and play a short piece on why that location was selected, what role it played in the movie (and where scenes were actually shot if the shooting location was not the diegetic location). In a film such as this one, where the city itself is as important a character as any of ones the actors portay, it is a great supplement, and an excellent use of the DVD platform to illuminate a film.
That, plus the fact that the film (beautifully transfered) is a brilliantly performed and ambiguous crime drama that poses interesting moral questions (and it's one of the few films that actually uses its casting as a method of focusing viewer attention) make this all around a great DVD.
posted 09-27-2000 07:20 PM PT (US) 
Swashbuckler

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I would also like to thank Warner Bros. for that generous check they sent me for writing the above.
posted 09-27-2000 07:21 PM PT (US) 
Jeron

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LOL...
posted 09-27-2000 09:25 PM PT (US) 
Marian Schedenig

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Hm, sounds interesting. I'll have to think about it.NP: Sergei Prokofiev: Ivan the Terrible (Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra & Chorus, Leonard Slatkin)
posted 09-28-2000 08:10 AM PT (US) Old Infopop Software by UBB
