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Originally Posted by Thinny
Spot on. These would have been straight from the sound desk mixes and the videos from the screens. There won't be multi track audio to mix or multicam videos to edit. What they have is what they have, so you are always going to get limited quility on these things.
Bands generally don't pay to professionally record and film shows and keep them in the archives. Not really sure what people expected!?
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That wasn't my point. I know that it's the footage from the screens and the raw capture of the audio stream. All good, nothing more expected and fully ok. My gripe is the quality in terms of what was presented. Before the Lost Highway tour, they gave some standard archive footage to a German TV station from the Giants shows in 2006 which was mixed into the tour announcement. Pristine, beautiful picture quality. They gave the same kind of footage from Giants 2003 to the Izod Center's YT channel in 2010. Again, really nice quality. Or just look at the leaked video we all know from the first night at Wembley in 1995.
With that kind of stuff, I'd be more than happy. But this is dark, kind of blurry and has hissy, dull audio. By 2010, they surely must've captured their shows digitally. I know of local bands who had their shows archived by camera mounted on the mixing desk and a raw audio capture of the line-in signal there 10 years ago. Beats this by a landslide.
It looks like they either compressed their archives to rather low resolution / low data rate files and upscaled them again or an analog capture from some source. The same impression that I had gotten from the San José 2008 clip.
There's gotta be somebody sitting there and doing this for them and with like 10 minutes of very little post production, this stuff could be so much more enjoyable.