Sydney, Australia (25-03-92)

BOB DYLAN
State Theatre
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
March 25, 1992
DVDylan ID #549.su2

4+/5+/4+/5-/4+
12/15/12/14/12 (avg 13.25: B+/A-)
Left balcony 40˙
1:29:35:04
PAL

DIFFERENCES FROM D549.su:
-used footage from alternate source (MS-293 master mp4) to fill missing songs and parts of
songs on D549
-different title and track menus

PERFORMANCE/HIGHLIGHTS/SPECIAL MOMENTS:
-Quite enjoyable. Varied setlist contains songs mostly from the 60s & 70s.
-Dylan in fine, more melodic voice, a contrast to the 1991 style, no doubt influenced by
the band members, especially Baxter, who are on top of their game.
-"Little Moses" and "Trail Of The Buffalo" are tasty treats.
-Dylan rather talkative:
"Thanks everybody! There's a line in that last song about headin' for another joint. It
don’t seem like a joint though. It's more like a pub, kind of ..." (after "Tangled Up In
Blue")

"That's a song trying to say goodbye to somebody who just don't know how ... called Cat's
In The Well."

"Thanks everybody! That last song was a song about trying to say goodbye to somebody.
This one is about trying to say hello to somebody. (before Simple Twist Of Fate).


DISTANCE/POSITION: 12: Left balcony 40˙ (virtually unobstructed position allowed for panning and zooming) (MS-293 left balcony 10˙)

AUDIO: 15: (excellent mix w/Dylan's voice prominent and well-balanced instruments; a/v sync problem with the first song and part of the second song)

STEADINESS: 12 (mostly steady w/camera sometimes off-target on the vertical plane)

HEADS/OBSTRUCTIONS: 14 (virtually unobstructed)

FOCUS: 12 (excellent color, adequate light, and good focus except when zoom employed)

EDITING: stills employed to fill missing parts of the first three songs and the missing final song

VIDEO SOURCES & LINEAGE:
D549
PAL format
Taper & camera: Unknown
224 MPEG-2, 720 × 576, 4:3, 25 fps, 6.00 Mbps, upper field first
192 MP2 stereo (joint), 48 kHz, 224 kbps
Shared by AMcC via trade
vob files > hd > MPEG Streamclip 1.9.2 > PAL dv > iMovie 6.0.3

D549.su:
PAL format
Taper & camera: Unknown
224 MPEG-2, 720 × 576, 4:3, 25 fps, 2.00 Mbps, upper field first
Audio Tracks:
160 PCM stereo, 48 kHz, 1.54 Mbps
vob files > hd > MPEG Streamclip 1.9.2 > PAL dv > iMovie 6.0.3

MS-293 master.mp4
JC video
mp4 file shared by the Caretaker
DVDylan rating of MS-293: 4/5/4/4/4
PAL format rendered in NTSC format to match D549
Duration: 1:29:16
Data Size: 12.55 GB
Bit Rate: 20.13 Mbps
Video Tracks:
AVC Coding, 1920 × 1080, 29.97 fps, 19.81 Mbps
Audio Tracks:
MPEG-4 Audio stereo, 48 kHz, 317 kbps
Stream Files:
MS-293 master.mp4 (12.55 GB)
mp4 file files > hd > MPEG Streamclip 1.9.2 > PAL dv > iMovie 6.0.3

AUDIO SOURCE & LINEAGE:
LB-10722
Taper & equipment: unknown
Alternative recording shared by 'MK' & 'JL' via bit torrent
Shared by Blindwilly via Dropbox
flac files > hd > Toast Titanium 11.0.4 > SD II 16-bit disk images > iMovie 6.0.3

LB NOTES FOR LB-10722:
Alternative recording 'MK' & 'JL'.
Trade cd-rs from many years ago > eac > flac 5 > y'all
I am not the taper....sorry, no further source info available.
As far as I am aware this recording has not been torrented in any form until now.

DVD PRODUCTION PROCESS:
Produced by yassou on a MacBook Pro running High Sierra 10.13.1 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)