Birmingham, AL (07-Feb-99)

11/13/14/15/14 (avg. 14.00 A)
Left balcony 20˙
1:32:56:29
NTSC

IMPROVEMENTS OVER D284/D284.su:
-sourced from master, or off-master Hi8 tape/better resolution & color
-split into 2 discs for better bitrate

PERFORMANCE/HIGHLIGHTS/SPECIAL MOMENTS:
-third performance of "Honkey Tonk Blues"
-Dylan in good voice and mood & more talkative than usual

DISTANCE/POSITION: 11 (No extreme close-ups, but camera keeps entire band and groups of players framed with pans left and right with zooms in and out)

AUDIO: 13 (used two audio sources, LB-6331 for cut audience applause and pre-encore and xref (no LB #) audio for main program)

STEADINESS: 14 (tripod steady for the most part)

HEADS/OBSTRUCTIONS: 15 (no obstructions except at start and end when crowd stands)

FOCUS: 14 (well-focused/color good/stage lights often low)

EDITING: Very little editing needed except at clipped start, before encore, and end; left pre-encore break and all but 7:05 of ending since camera stayed focused on stage and audience doing the cigarette lighter thing)

VIDEO SOURCE & LINEAGE:
unknown camera > Hi8 tape > Sony Digital Video Camera Recorder (DCR-TRV480) > iMovie 6.0.3.
4/3+/5/5+/5
Left balcony 20˙
Taper: unknown
Shared by Tom P. & raygun

AUDIO SOURCES & LINEAGE:
xref (no LB #)
not identical to either LB-6331 or LB-6983
Disc author's rating: A-
Taper: Unidentified
flac files DropBoxed by blindwilly
flac > Toast Titanium 11.0.4 > SD II disk images > iMovie 6.0.3.

LB-6331 (used for applause fill cut from other source)
Audience recording>Lineage Unknown>Flac>md-5
2 CDRs (79min+18min)
LB rating: C (seems too low)
bittorrent download 08/08; track splits not specified; good sound [C]
drop d1t1 0:00; has occasional discontinuity pops like d1t1 2:06, 3:57 plus more; drop d1t9 3:00 to 2:01 on left channel; drops d1t11 4:03, 4:08
flac files uploaded to ElectricLadyland by blindwilly
flac > 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)