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Now on YouTube in the best quality possible, here is some footage that may take the crown for the best possible 1977 video we currently have! Thanks to all those involved! I hope you all enjoy this bootleg, and if you have any requests (years, eras, specific dates, etc.) let me know and I will try to upload it! O. Chapters: 0:00 - Intro 0:07 - Sheep 1:16 - Pigs On The Wing (Part One) 1:23 - Dogs 3:16 - Pigs (Three Different Ones) 4:02 - Shine On You Crazy Diamond (Pts. I-V) 6:07 - Welcome To The Machine 6:42 - Have A Cigar 7:30 - Wish You Were Here 8:35 - Shine On You Crazy Diamond (Pts. VI-IX) Source: Info: Super 8mm 2K Scan; Audio sync from a matrix of Recorder 1 and 2. plegault's Notes The original reels (three different ones!) came into my possession earlier this summer in a trade. It seems like the three 3“ reels were spliced together in a larger reel, presumably for an easier viewing experience. The filmer is Mike R. and he graded his own reels between poor, fair and good. I quickly reached out to RemembranceCCF to get the project started and the end result is night and day compared to the VHS copies seen previously. I hope you guys enjoy this as much as I do! None of this would've been possible without the help of RemembranceCCF, WorldmanOne and Blob. I want to thank them again for taking part in this project. RemembranceCCF's Notes Anaheim has of course been trapped on VHS for quite some time, and I have had the pleasure of handling a few tapes in the past. Unfortunately, each of them were either a high generation or had serious issues with the brightness, preventing them from looking particularly great. As WorldmanOne mentions below, syncing these tapes proved quite difficult as well. It was an honor and a huge surprise to get to work on the original film! The film itself was in exceptionally good condition and did not require a ton of cleanup. I did one runthrough in Phoenix Finish to remove the major dirt and debris, but did no other visual work to the film. After performing the final render in Premiere Pro, I compressed at 40,000 KBPS as an MKV to preserve compatability along with a flac 16/44 audio track. My sync contributions covered Pigs (Three Different Ones), Sheep, and Pigs on the Wing Part 1. Given the beautiful clarity of the scan, these portions I found particularly easy to match up, but WorldmanOne deserves far more credit than I for his incredible work on the rest. WorldmanOne's Notes After a lot of testing, me and Remembrance agreed that the footage seemed to be from the 2nd night in Anaheim. Looking at stuff like David's guitar playing at the end of HAC, The way Nick is drumming on SOYCD 1-5. It all matched with the 7th much better than the 6th. For me Set 2 was the easiest starting point, mostly due to it being closer to the stage. I started by working around the portion that featured known things like the screenfilms, the radio for WYWH and Roger playing acoustic guitar on WTTM. Once I had a rough idea of what the rest of the songs were I just started listening to the bootleg and testing different portions to see what matched based on Nick's drumming, Roger's Bass playing and David's Guitar playing, once everything matched to my liking marked it as done. Dogs from set 1 on the other hand was a bit rougher. I started with roughly syncing the Nuclear Family Portion based on my experience with Cincinnati 77. The rest is based on what David roughly seems to be playing and what the light rig is trying to convey. I'm super grateful for having Remembrance to throw ideas and test different syncs with, without that it wouldn't have gone quite as smoothly. Blob's Notes Recorder 1 sounds closest to the stage, while Rec 2 sounds a little bit further back but still close to the stage. When rec 2 is combined, it restores some fidelity and some stereo/quad panning as heard at the original shows. Recorder 1 unfortunately suffers from a lot of distortion and is very harsh sounding and challenging to listen to on its own. All copies of recorder 1 have this issue. Recorder 2 is far better, with little to no distortion present on the tape. Putting the two in stereo makes this a way better listening experience, as things are more spread out. EQ was applied to recorder 1 in an attempt to lessen the harshness of the recording without killing the top end, so only a minimal amount was applied. Rec 1 is panned 60% right and Rec 2 is panned 85% left. Hard-panning them sounded a bit weird to my ears and didn't sound very natural. Bringing the recordings to the center a little bit helps to glue them together, and makes them sound more like one stereo recording, and not necessarily two recordings merged together. Volume automation was also applied to keep the recordings balanced between the two channels.
