| Waters, Roger - Madison Square Garden |
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| Recorded at the Madison Square Garden, New York City, NY, USA. Very good audience recording, albeit quite shaky sometimes. From the info file: Roger Waters Madison Square Garden New York City August 26, 1987 Format: DVD (NTSC/Dolby Digital Stereo) Lineage: 8mm master > DVCAM > AVI > Vegas (MPEG-2/AC3) > DVD pinkrabbit1 sent me his 8mm master tapes since he could no longer provide playback for that format. It took me several attempts to transfer this tape properly as it seemed to have either stretched over the years or suffered some form of deteriroation that resulted in a strange playback speed at times. Perhaps it was a battery issue? The 8mm tape could not be directly captured by a computer as the results, when played back, were a constant digitized jumble even though the image seemed fine from the original feed. A more stable format was needed as an intermediary and that is why I transferred the 8mm master to a couple of professional DVCAM tapes. The DVCAMs still had problems dealing with the speed issues and because of the digital nature of the beast, interpretted the imperfections by intermittently digitizing some frames. This is very noticeable during the 1st set. The image regularly shifts in digital 'waves' (the best way I can describe it) but its just something that one adjusts to, as is the case with many boots. There are also many drop outs during the 1st set as well. Then there were still problems with capturing the DVCAM source. Any AVI that I created that had the standard 2GB cut-off was reading as a PAL format even though the DVCAM and my capture settings were NTSC. The PC was still sensing speed issues and was getting it wrong, the timeline was jumping all over the place. This was strange because the 1st few test clips I did turned out fine. It took a bit more trial and error until I finally figured out that if I kept the AVIs down to half their usual size, I'd finally have something to edit and work with. Whew! Now about the video. Hats off to pinkrabbit1 for filming way back in 1987. I'm sure that his camera weighed a ton after the 1st few songs. Videos from back then are so rare and with the size of those old things its not surprising. These home video cameras didn't generally handle low light levels to well either. PR was able to capture most of the show although many key songs are cut or missing. The camera changes locations after the 1st few songs, starting from somewhere on the main floor and moving to the upper right balcony. The screen is only visible from the midpoint to the bottom. The camera is often shakey but is also very nice for long stretches of time. This is certainly no where near the level of quality that we've been spoiled with over the past few years, so this DVD may not be for everybody. I played this one on 4 different DVD players and it had some momentary stuttering/freezing problems on each, so be forewarned! Just keep your fingers crossed I guess. Radio Waves Welcome to the Machine Who Needs Information Money (cut) In The Flesh Have A Cigar Pigs (3 Different Ones) Wish You Were Here Mother Molly's Song Me Or Him The Powers That Be The Pros & Cons of Hitch Hiking Arnold Layne If Every Stranger's Eyes Not Now John Another Brick In The Wall (Part 2) Nobody Home Home 4 Minutes The Tide Is Turning (cut) A BIG thanks to pinkrabbit1! Its his sacrifice and enthusiasm to share with us all that made this possible. I was just some keyboard monkey for this one. This DVD has no affiliation with Harvested Records. Enjoy! RonToon April 2008 |