Wantagh, NY (17-Aug-97)

BOB DYLAN
"Mr. Jones 1997 Beach Party"
Jones Beach Amphitheater
Jones Beach State Park
Wantagh, New York, USA
August 17, 1997
DVDylan ID #087.vsu

4-/5-/5-/5/4+
10/13/13/14/12
Left balcony 10˙
1:33:29:03
NTSC


PERFORMANCE/HIGHLIGHTS/SPECIAL MOMENTS:
--Strong performances of "Mr. Tambourine Man" and "Blind Willie McTell."
--excellent guitar picking by Campbell on "Watching The River Flow" with Dylan no slouch
himself.

Improvements over D087:
--Video upgrade
--Audio upgrade

DASH-F RATING ON 15-POINT SCALE
13/14/15 (A-/A/A+)
10/11/12 (B-/B/B+)
07/08/09 (C-/C/C+)
04/05/06 (D-/D/D+)
01/02/03 (E-/E/E+)

DISTANCE/POSITION: 12 Left balcony 20˙ (unobstructed)
AUDIO: 13
STEADINESS: 13
HEADS/OBSTRUCTIONS: 14
FOCUS: 12

AVERAGE QUALITY = 13.00 = A- (excludes Distance/Position)
PROS: Great video & audio improvement over D087
CONS: Closer zoom would have been effective, but perhaps outside the limits of the camera;
no harp

VIDEO SOURCE & LINEAGE:
Hi8 tape (probably from master)
Taper: unidentified
Shared by Tom P. & raygun.
Hi8 tape > Sony Super Hi8 handycam > iMovie 6.0.3

AUDIO SOURCES & LINEAGE:
LB-2129 (used for Disc 1)
HungerCity tracker download
Rating: A-
Taper: unidentified
Uploader: ozark
Conversion: CD-r > EAC(secure) > FLAC Frontend Compression Tool > flac > xACT 2.20 > aiff > Toast Titanium 11.0.4 > SD II disk images > iMovie 6.0.3.

LB-5671 (used for Disc 2 because LB-2921 was not in correct order and had cuts difficult to match to video)
HungerCity tracker download
Rating: A-
Taper: Legendary Taper F (Glen Dundas)
DropBox uploader: ozark
Transfer from master in 2007 > audio disks > audio disks > (dBpowerAMP set to compression level 6) flac. > flac > xACT 2.20 > aiff > Toast Titanium 11.0.4 > SD II disk images > iMovie 6.0.3.

DVD PRODUCTION PROCESS:
Produced by yassou on a MacBook Pro running Lion 10.7.5 and Apple software.
Audio and video assets edited in iMovie 6.0.3; authored, multiplexed and burned to VIDEO_TS folder in iDVD 7.1.2 (Professional Quality 2-pass variable bit rate encoding)

DISTANCE/POSITION: 13 Left balcony 10˙ (unobstructed); good panning and limited zooming.

AUDIO: 13 (LB-5671 said to be more mellow than LB-2129; editor found the latter to be more upfront on Dylan's vocal)

STEADINESS: 13 (camera mostly steady once song starts; often off target during breaks)

HEADS/OBSTRUCTIONS: 13 (filmer had unobstructed position; sometimes off target between tracks)

FOCUS/COLOR/LIGHT/RESOLUTION: 12 (good color, adequate light, and good resolution)

EDITING: no need for editing or stills except between tracks and to cut encore breaks