I saw the film Room 237 last night, and Im very intrigued by something they did in the movie. Room 237 is a documentary about 5 fans obsessed with the Stanley Kubrick film, The Shining. Each person has their own theories about the film, and one of those theories was that Kubrick intended the film to be viewed both forwards and backwards, and this person created a version that overlayed a reverse copy of the film onto the regular version.
Now Im sure they cherry-picked the highlights to show in the documentary, but the scenes they did show were quite jarring, and Id like to recreate this. I have the blu-ray version of The Shining, and its been converted to MKV. What Im looking to do is this:
Create a reverse version of the film. Ive found a guide for ffmpeg that would seem to do what I need:
Then if my understanding is correct, I would need to use Vegas, or similar application, to combine the two versions, reducing the opacity on one or both tracks. I would only need audio from the forward version (although it might be interesting to have the reverse audio as a separate audio track that could be used if desired, buts it not important.)
Can anybody tell me if this basically the right way to go about doing this?
My apologies if this is in the wrong forum; this seemed to be the best one for the subject
The MPEG clip requires extra plugins for AviSynth.
VirtualDub normally outputs AVI file - but it can use external codec, perhaps to save as MP4 or MPEG.
Note that the samples are not literally from the start and end of a movie - that would be at least two hours, but it gives a sample of what the overlay looks like.
