Wallingford, CT (18-Aug-97)

PERFORMANCE/HIGHLIGHTS/SPECIAL MOMENTS:
--Strong vocals by Dylan throughout.
--Bucky's great pedal steel playing enhanced by close ups of hands.
--Rick Danko sitting in on "This Wheel's On Fire" and "I Shall Be Released"

Improvements over D668/D668.ra:
--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: 11 Center balcony
AUDIO: 14
STEADINESS: 12
HEADS/OBSTRUCTIONS: 13
FOCUS: 13

AVERAGE QUALITY = 13.00 = A- (excludes Distance/Position)
PROS: Great video & audio improvement over D668/D668.ra; excellent camera work
CONS: Camera unable to handle extreme zooms, so image is grainy; tape counter left on for entire program; had to use video soundtrack for final break because upgrade sources were all drastically cut; 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:
AS-1: Captain Acid Remaster
No LB #
Taper: Unidentified
Excellent sound: A
Shared by Captain Acid via HungerCity bit torrent download (Oct. 1997)
Lineage: audience recording > datmaster > clone > cd > eac > flac > soundforge Pro 10.0 for remaster > TLH > HungerCity > flac > Toast Titanium 11.0.4 > SD II disk images > iMovie 6.0.3.

AS-2: "This Wheel's On Fire" (used only for opening titles)
No LB #
Taper: Net Taper M
Excellent sound: A+ (But runs a bit faster than the video sound track)
Shared by OutsideTLaw via pinkrobert bit torrent download (Jan. 2006)
Lineage: ? > pinkrobert > flac > CDs > 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: 12 Left balcony 10˙ (mostly unobstructed); good panning and very close zooming.

AUDIO: 14 (AS-1 excellent; AS-2 sounds better than AS-1 but runs faster than the video soundtrack; used only to fill cuts in AS-1)

STEADINESS: 12 (camera mostly steady once song starts; gets worse in emcores)

HEADS/OBSTRUCTIONS: 13 (filmer had unobstructed position)

FOCUS/COLOR/LIGHT/RESOLUTION: 13 (good color and light, and good resolution except on extreme close ups)

EDITING: little need for editing or stills except for missing "Absolutely Sweet Marie," between tracks and cut encore breaks