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VOOR DE LIEFHEBBERS!!
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Bruce Springsteen and The E Street Band
Live at the Air Canada Centre, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
7th May 2009
NTSC DVD

I'd like to preface this by apologising for taking so goddamn long. I had the footage in hand back in January and agreed that I would have it done for the 1-year aniversary of the show. Somehow, it took me THREE MONTHS longer than I said it would. Totalling almost EIGHT MONTHS. Yeah. Sorry. At this stage the probably won't be anyone who even cares about it, but hey, here it is anyway!

A 2-cam mix of Blacklab's footage currently circulating on a DVD entitled "Bay Street Freeze-out" and Toronto Tapers Consortium (TTC) footage that is, as far as I know, not currently circulating on it's own. The same footage that Blacklab used to pad the first two missing songs from his DVD.

TTC footage from the raw camera files (Some cheap Standard Defintion JVC HDD MPEG-2 camcorder).
Blacklab's footage from the DVD (Shot on a Canon HF200, but unfortunately he is not wlling to give out raw footage to anyone).

Blacklab's footage was also very dark. After the magnificent HF100, Canon somehow managed to drop the ball spectacularly with the HF200. Pixel density the size of a 5 year old camera phone, seriously. Anyway, he did some brightening to it for his DVD, and I did some other stuff to it for this. I think my output looks better than both the original footage and the DVD in terms of brigtness/black levels/etc.

Because of all this, the final encode doesn't look that brilliant. The TTC raw footage looked blocky and poor from the start, and Blacklab's HD sourced footage has gone through two stages of filtering and one stage of downconversion & MPEG-2 re-encoding prior to this final output.

The footage itself isn't bad overall though. It's not gonna win any Oscars, but I think the final mix is a worthy upgrade from Blacklab's DVD if you were there or whatever.

Blacklab's audio used too.

Video 1 Lineage...: Canon HF200 > Unknown processing, downconversion and MPEG-2 encoding > ABMS > DGIndex > Avisynth Script 1* > Uncompressed YV12 *.avi > Adobe Premiere Pro CS4 > Uncompressed YUV *.avi > CCE SP2 (5-pass encode, 6250 Kbit/Sec avg for DVD 1, 7250 Kbit/Sec avg for DVD 2) > Adobe Encore CS4
Video 2 Lineage...: SD JVC HDD MPEG-2 Camcorder > Raw files > DGIndex > Avisynth Script 2** > Uncompressed YV12 *.avi > Adobe Premiere Pro CS4 > Uncompressed YUV *.avi > CCE SP2 (5-pass encode, 6250 Kbit/Sec avg for DVD 1, 7250 Kbit/Sec avg for DVD 2) > Adobe Encore CS4
Audio Lineage.....: CA-11 > R-09 > Sound Forge > CD WAV > TLH (to FLAC) > ABMS > TLH (back to WAV) > Adobe Premiere Pro CS4 > Uncompressed *.wav > Adobe Encore CS4 (To AC3)

DVD Specifications:
DVD Standard......: NTSC
Video Codec.......: MPEG-2 (DVD Compliant, VIDEO_TS folders)
Video Resolution..: 720x480
Video Framerate...: 29.97 (Progressive, sources de-interlaced where appropriate)
Video Bitrate.....: 6250 Kbit/Sec average for DVD 1, 7250 Kbit/Sec average for DVD 2. 2000 Kbit/Sec minimum and 9000 Kbit/sec maximum for both.
Video Encoder.....: Cinema Craft Encoder SP2 (5-pass Variable Bitrate)
Audio Codec.......: AC3
Audio Bitrate.....: 192 Kbit/Sec
Audio Encoder.....: Adobe Encore CS4

*Avisynth Script 1
mpeg2source("X:\input.d2v")
fft3dgpu(sigma=0.9,plane=4,interlaced=true)
tdeint(mode=1)
selecteven()
levels(22,1.12,225,0,255)

**Avisynth Script 2
mpeg2source("X:\input2.d2v")
tdeint(mode=1)
removegrain(mode=2)
fft3dgpu(sigma=1.25,plane=4,interlaced=false)
tweak(sat=0.75)
selecteven()
addgrain(1,0,0)