| Waters, Roger - You Don't Think It Could Be Me Do You |
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| Recorded at 'Music Heals', DAR Constitution Hall, Washington, DC, USA. Great multi-cam audience recording. From the info file: Baronet Media September 2016 Roger Waters Musicorps 15 October 2015 - Blu-ray Disc notes This release is meant to be shared among friends and fans and is not intended be sold or used for any monetary gain. I spent untold hours over the last several months putting this disc together. I hope you enjoy it. All Footage is crowd-sourced, including the audio. I captured 3 songs with my personal camera. Everything else was generously shared on the Internet by enthusiastic fans whom I have never met. This project was not planned in advance. The bulk of the footage was located on YouTube, but important elements were also found via Bittorent and a few other websites. There are at least 27 contributors! I love the idea that more than 2 dozen fans carefully coordinated this project, but that is the opposite of the truth. I got the idea after looking at my own footage and then searching the web to see if more of the show was out there. I found so much great material that I felt compelled to all put it together into a single seamless record of a very special and one-time-only event. The editing was all done on Avid Media Composer. Adobe After Effects was used to solve a few problems and Adobe Audition was used for some audio processing. Adobe Encore was used to author the Blu-ray disc. All the post production was done by me, myself and I with ideas and encouragement from friends. Hours and hours were spent syncing the many video clips with the master audio track. Then I had to choose the best shots to use and how often to switch angles. This was the most fun. Every song had at least 2 video sources and C-Numb had 10! I made an effort to include at least one shot from every source. I even did a few split screens to help video shot in portrait mode fill the 16x9 landscape TV screen. Everything you see is live and in-sync exactly as it happened with just a few exceptions. You won’t see any shots of the backup singers from a different song. You won’t see any shots reused somewhere else. There are a few seconds here and there (often between songs) where I had to freeze the video because the shot was blocked or otherwise unusable. In a few cases I used slow motion to cover a gap. In some cases I left in people walking across the shot because it seemed more natural than a freeze frame. I made extensive use of image stabilization. This was mostly done in Media Composer. A few of the more problematic shots were stabilized in Adobe After Effects. It’s hard to hold a camera steady for long periods of time. When you zoom in any unsteadiness is magnified. A fluid head tripod makes it possible to execute smooth pans and tilts. Alas, only the boldest fan would even think of trying to bring one of these into a concert. Image stabilization does a great job of compensating for minor bobbles. The un-smooth motion is canceled by zooming into the image slightly and doing an ‘equal and opposite’ move on each frame as needed. The only remaining artifact is some blurriness where the camera moves so rapidly, that it smears the image. I also did some re-framing of shots to focus more on the main performer, or to crop out distracting parts of a shot. Next was color correction. The video from all these cameras looked very different. I have no idea what make or model any of them were (except my own which is a Canon HDV HV-30). Needless to say, the color and contrast did not match and it looked pretty jarring when cutting between shots. I think I got the contrast pretty well matched. There are still places where I could not get the color to match as well as I would like, but beggars can’t be choosers. The only jarring difference that remains is differences in sharpness. Some of the shots are super-sharp. Others are fairly sharp. And to be kind, some are clearly less sharp. Some shots are also slightly out of focus. Auto-focus doesn’t always work quickly enough in situations like this especially when the camera is zoomed in to frame up a specific performer. What about the audio? Ninety-Nine percent of the audio came from an excellent stereo source. The audio from most of the cameras was quite usable, but suffered from automatic gain control which kills the dynamic range. I briefly considered creating a surround mix by combining audio tracks from several sources. While this would sound ‘interesting’ I ultimately decided that it would not sound ‘pleasing’ especially when one source comes to an end and we switch to another. There are just 2 places where I changed audio sources. At the start of the second set our primary source misses a few seconds of the video clip played on the big screen. I filled that in from another excellent (but mono) source. There is also about 30 seconds missing after the beginning of SOYCD which was filled in from a stereo camera source. There was low but noticeable hum / buzz in some parts of the primary stereo source. I ran this through Adobe Audition and effectively filtered it out. I only switched to the processed audio where I noticed the buzz. The result is a complete rendition of this historic event. The first public performance by Roger (or any member of Pink Floyd) of When the Tigers Broke Free. It is also the second performance of Crystal Clear Brook(s), a new song by Roger. Nothing has been cut. All the pauses and banter between songs including 2 false starts has been left in. After the second false starts, Roger quips “You don’t think it could be me do you?”. Hence the title of this release. I hope you enjoy this release from Baronet Media. The Musicorp Band for this event: Guitar - Capt. Greg Galeazzi Guitar - G.E. Smith Guitar - Tom Morello Guitar - Greg Loman Guitar - Spc Nathan Kalwicki Guitar - Spc Will Cook Bass - Marcus Dandrea Vocals - marine corporal Tim Donley Vocals - Roger Waters Vocals - Billy Corgan Vocals - Mary Lankford Vocals - J.W. Cortés Sax - Jake Clemons Keyboards - Jeff Kazee Drums - Rich Pagano Drums - Johnathon Mullen Drums - Juan Dominguez Strings - Mahoko Eguchi Strings - Joel Fuller Strings - Paul DeNola Strings - Alexandra Osborne Cello - Rachel Young Backing Vocals - Theresa Brim Backing Vocals - Marie Campbell Backing Vocals - Eric Scott Backing Vocals - BJ Kerwin Backing Vocals - Arthur Bloom Thanks to: Primary Audio Source (stereo) Recorded by JB Edited by Kathleen Secondary Audio Source (mono) ‘movement’ of Yeeshkul YouTube video contributors Cosmic Songcatcher (complete show) bautistasal (nearly complete show) Mario Zúñiga CurrentMedicine.TV PeterHutchins Heather050583 Sean Froelich radioheaded1 PikoJoe ThinkFloyd61 Joe Tumulty Gina Cocco Alex Koch Kate Donlan Scott Burns Mike Brez Louise M JW Cortes Brian Cooper Discography Music osaly71 Veronica Rivero B. PATRICK REED BWC Gwidion |