And just so you can appreciate how much hell I went through to make this, let me explain... So I went looking for LotR Extended torrents and all of them were between 4 and 88 (yes, 88) GB, except one. One torrent had the files at 800mb each and all the comments seemed to indicate the quality was good, so I went for those. But, silly me, I forgot to check the format. It was mp4. I don't have anything that plays mp4, and my video editor definitely doesn't read it. So I had to convert them to wmv or avi, and I figured "No problem, I'll just convert them with my usual converter!" But nope, for some reason it said it couldn't. Odd. So I went looking for some free video converters. Found one, but it was taking over 24 hours to convert each file to wmv. But I gritted my teeth and left the computer on overnight only to have my mom turn it off in the morning... because she thought it was off (despite the loud electronic hum and flashing lights) and wanted to turn it on. I saw that the 4 and a half hour movie only converted up to 3hrs 6min. So I tried again, no disturbances this time, and after it said it was done, it was still cut off at 3hrs 6min. I was getting very frustrated, but I tried the next file, and left that overnight, and that one got cut off at 3hrs 6min also. Okay, obviously the converter doesn't like to go past 3hrs 6min, and I'm still missing all the movie climaxes, such as the all-important Mount Doom scenes. At this point I panic, but then go looking for a program to split my mp4 files so I can make my new crappy converter render the other half. Found one, split movie, and am about to render it when am told that the trial version of this program only renders in 2min intervals. AAAAAAARRRGHHH FINE. I pinpoint the scenes I want and render them in 2 minute chunks, then splice them together using another program and finally I have my lava scene. GOOD. So finally I make the video. Am happy. Render it into like a 800mb avi file and then put it through my good converter into wmv. Play it back, and the aspect ratio is waaay off. I go back to the original, and realize even the original is slightly off aspect ratio (things are stretched vertically). So I find a clip with the ring and tweak the video dimensions until it looks like a circle and not an oval. Render that into avi, put it through converter, same exact result. Hmmm. Play around with output dimensions in converter, all it does is crop the frame, not resize it. HMMM. Go looking for another converter. After about a day and a half of tweaking and searching, finally Windows Media Encoder managed to convert the raw avi file into a wmv file of the right aspect ratio. This took an hour and a half to render, and ended up being 150mb. Under 4 minute video being 150mb is generally not good. I try to put it through my first good converter again to try to compress it. It finally gets the aspect ratio right, but the sound is static. O.o;; I try playing with the settings again, but no luck. I go back to Windows Media Encoder, and play with the settings there. Since my other converter processed the video fine, I figured I should play with the audio settings. This took another day. After several hours and a half of rendering, finally found an audio setting that my other converter could handle. Finally compressed file!!! So what you have here went from mp4->wmv->avi->wmv->avi At one point, right after finishing the video, I pondered downloading the several GB versions of the movies and recutting them now that I know exactly which scenes I need. But after all the conversion and resizing trouble I went through, I figured I'd keep the relatively crappy video quality for sentimental reasons. :P Oh yeah, and I also tried to upload it on youtube, but apparently NIN didn't give them permission yet to let fans use their songs, so youtube told me they can put up the video with no audio. It took me several seconds to absorb the rediculousness of putting up a music video with no music, and then I deleted the video. Frustrating.