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Focus/Light:
Balc. L10°
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| DVDylan ID: | D1093 |
| Recording type: | Audience |
| City/Venue: | Holmdel, NJ, USA/PNC Bank Arts Center |
| Date: | Friday, 15th August 1997 |
NOTE: THIS IS NOT A SOUND UPGRADE. MINIMAL EDITING. Never-Ending Tour Concert #888
Special thanks for the Hi8 tape to TOM P. & RAYGUN.
Edited & authored by YASSOU.
- Opening Titles [titles, credits, disclaimer over 39:07 still; applause extracted from break]
- Absolutely Sweet Marie [fade in; clipped & cut]
- Lay, Lady, Lay [clipped]
- Tough Mama [clipped]
- Just Like A Woman [clipped/slight cut]
- Silvio
- Mr. Tambourine Man [heavily clipped/only have ~49 seconds]
- Tangled Up In Blue [clipped]
- Cocaine Blues [clipped]
- Watching The River Flow
- Blind Willie McTell [clipped]
- Leopard-Skin Pill-Box Hat [clipped]
- Like A Rolling Stone
- My Back Pages [clipped]
- Rainy Day Women #12 & 35 [cut]
- End Thanks [thanks/salute/fadeout; applause extracted from break]
| Number of discs: | 1 |
| Running time: | 01:11:04 |
| Authoring: | DVDs with menu and chapters are circulating |
DASH-F 5-Point Scale: 5 2 3- 2+ 3+
DASH-F 10-Point Scale: 9 4 5 4 6
VIDEO & AUDIO SOURCE & LINEAGE:
Hi8 tape shared by Tom P. & raygun
Hi8 tape > Sony Digital Video Camera Recorder (DCR-TRV480) > iMovie 6.0.3.
DVD PRODUCTION PROCESS:
Produced by yassou on a MacBook Pro running Lion 10.7.5 and Apple software.
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)
DASH-F RATING ON 10-POINT SCALE:
DISTANCE/POSITION: 9
AUDIO: 4
STEADINESS: 5
HEADS/OBSTRUCTIONS: 4
FOCUS: 6
AVERAGE QUALITY = 5.5 (excludes Distance/Position)
VERDICT: Should be attractive to completists and to those who attended the show.
VIDEO SOURCE:
Hi8 tape probably sourced from a 1st generation tape.
AUDIO SOURCE:
Hi8 tape soundtrack.
DISTANCE/POSITION:
Filmer situated in the left balcony, several rows back, so had to shoot through people in front. The image is mostly waist up with occasional zoom outs and many extreme zoom ins. Filmer occasionally panned to show all players.
AUDIO:
Below average Hi8 soundtrack sound. Sound upgrade not attempted due to choppiness of the video.
STEADINESS:
Fairly steady once the filmer gets situated. Not bad control for a hand-held camera.
HEADS/OBSTRUCTIONS:
Heads are a problem in the beginning; it gets better as the program proceeds, but worsens again during the encores when the crowd is standing and dancing. Dark stretches present when the filmer is blocked or lowers the camera.
FOCUS/COLOR/LIGHT/RESOLUTION:
Mostly focused. Color often good depending on floodlights. Reds and yellows look best. Resolution suffers with extreme close ups.
EDITING:
The disk author heavily edited the footage to deal with all the clips, cuts, and drops. Since this was not a sound upgrade, stills were not employed to fill missing or obstructed video. Only "Silvio," "Watching The River Flow," and "Like A Rolling Stone" survived intact in terms of audio, but these also had dark stretches when the filmer lowered or stopped the camera or was blocked.
PERFORMANCE/HIGHLIGHTS/SPECIAL MOMENTS:
Hard to judge due to the poor sound, but there are stretches that come across quite well, e.g., the bridge of "Just Like A Woman" and the instrumental breaks of "Tangled Up In Blue" and "Watching The River Flow."
NOTE: An occasional message comes up on the screen that reads: "O Nosso Bebé" (Portuguese for "Our Baby"). What this signifies is anybody's guess.
Reviewed by yassou on 13th June 2013