1997-05-16 Shrine Exposition Hall, Los Angeles, CA, USA/Source 2
Notes
An excellent pro-shot video of the latter of two "Ultra Parties". This footage was shot using a single camera with raw soundboard audio as the primary track. Additionally, a very good soundboard/audience matrix recording is available as the secondary audio track, thanks to bias.
The video quality of this version surpasses the previous DVD copy, as there isn't VHS in the lineage. While the MiniDV video remains lossy, I'll take a digital copy over analog in this case. The primary audio track (raw soundboard) is of great quality and is lossless. It may sound slightly duller than previous copies, but those copies received EQ and other tweaks. This version remains unmodified, except for normalization.
To preserve video quality, no transcoding was done, keeping the original DV video codec intact. Unnecessary elements, such as color bars at the beginning and glitchy post-show footage, were losslessly trimmed.
This version is the MTV edit, without the E! broadcast's edit during Home. The only missing segment from this tape is a brief segment after the last song where Dave says, "I guess we'll see you next time, thanks for coming, good night."
About 50 seconds of pre-show footage is included, with the first 19 seconds having no audio for unknown reasons.
For those interested, the raw soundboard audio from this video is available separately at Source 1, the soundboard + audience matrix audio at Source 3, and the original audience recording used for the matrix audio recording at Source 4.
Thanks to RyanJ for digitally transferring the MiniDV tape, to bias for creating the matrix audio track, and to FpmiP for helping find the right audio delay value, quality control, and general help with working with video files.
Watch
You can watch this entire recording below.
Track list
- Preshow
- Uselink
- Barrel Of A Gun
- Useless
- It's No Good
- Home (*)
- Never Let Me Down Again
- Total time: 29:44
Lineage
- NTSC 3/4" beta tape (unconfirmed; inference from snippets from https://vimeo.com/album/2278330) -> MiniDV tape -> Sony HVR-M15AU deck -> FireWire -> Adobe Premiere Pro -> RAW MOV file -> video trimmed in LosslessCut -> in Audacity: original audio normalized to -0.1dB and any DC offset removed -> MKVToolNix: muxed in FLAC audio + matrix audio track (Track 2), added 220ms of delay to audio tracks, added chapters -> MKV file
- Taper: MTV
- Generation: first
- Transfer: RyanJ (ninlive.com)
- Video specifications: 720x480 29.97FPS NTSC - DV Video codec
- Audio specifications: FLAC 16-bit 48khz
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