Vancouver, Canada (21-Aug-88)

NB: Technically speaking, this item rates 4 Stars. However, 5 Stars are deserved on the "must have" criterion.

3/4/5/5-/4-
8/11/14/13/10
Right balcony 60˙
1:22:35:13
NTSC

PERFORMANCE/HIGHLIGHTS/SPECIAL MOMENTS:
-great "Barbara Allen" and acoustic numbers in general
-G.E. Smith's virtuoso guitar playing
-Kenny Aaronson's bass playing and cool-cat look
-participation of Tracy Chapman on "Knockin' On Heaven's Door"

DISTANCE/POSITION: 8 (mostly profiles, but well-framed; focus stays on Dylan/little
panning or zooming; rare view of drummer Parker, but Smith and Aaronson well represented)

AUDIO: 11 (very good LB-3950; speed corrected and re-corrected because it ran slower than the video soundtrack; a bit on the echoey side)

STEADINESS: 14 (mostly steady)

HEADS/OBSTRUCTIONS: 13 (mostly unobstructed)

FOCUS: 10 (well-focused, but rather dark venue)

EDITING: Audio had to be sped up +1% and brief stills added to further correct a/v as film proceeded; stills added for other extended clipped/cut parts

VIDEO SOURCE & LINEAGE:
Master tape > Apple ProRes 422, Linear PCM, Timecode
3/2-/5-/5-/4-
Taper: JEMS
Shared by JEMS
Apple ProRes 422 > iMovie 6.0.3

AUDIO SOURCE & LINEAGE:
LB-3950
Very good: B (speed corrected)
speed re-corrected by disc editor: +1%
Taper: TW
Shared via DropBox by BLINDWILLY
flac > Toast Titanium 11.0.4 > SD II disk images > Audacity 2.0.0 > 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)