| Chief Mouse 25.12.2014 15:14 |
Another Christmas present from me thanks to Bootluca who asked me to do these videos. He also provided the sources so thanks for that. These were very nice videos to work with. Particularly the first night (red jacket) since it had some extreme colour bleeding which was interesting to fix. It involved chroma shift and other tweaks but the result is good, in my opinion. The same applies to the 2nd night (white jacket) but to lesser extent since the bleed wasn't as extreme. Some of you are probably aware of the highest quality source of the white jacket performance, it has a big logo(s) in bottom right corner which says "1984" and "RAIDUE". My plan at first was to use the lower quality source Bootluca gave me and mask it in the corner of the higher quality video to produce the best no logo version. Unfortunately due to some frame mismatch (they were different broadcasts so the editor seemed to have edited the framing in both of videos a bit differently) and sync issues I decided to not bother with it and just process the no logo source which was slightly lower quality. Also. for the 2nd night (white jacket) I added a few seconds longer intro from another version so that the video is as complete as possible. I also synced a 2nd audio track to both videos - the studio version which I took from C_Matt's "The Works (HD Revision)". Before downloading please watch this - First night - https://www.mediafire.com/convkey/fe98/q4l3sr3h2pzzmr17g.jpg" border="0" alt="Simple, Free Image and File Hosting at MediaFire" /> https://www.mediafire.com/convkey/ff62/4l6udmd8zlym5t47g.jpg" border="0" alt="Simple, Free Image and File Hosting at MediaFire" /> https://www.mediafire.com/convkey/7d72/ns8j6n1mliyho5e7g.jpg" border="0" alt="Simple, Free Image and File Hosting at MediaFire" /> https://www.mediafire.com/convkey/002f/zct28cq7u3xf23d7g.jpg" border="0" alt="Simple, Free Image and File Hosting at MediaFire" /> https://mega.nz/#!bN0BRYbT!jYZrxD8FGL9OW_oPuluVzpR2KTpPSYmuBlRO6nrLVb8 Second night - https://www.mediafire.com/convkey/8cbd/785q1vaka733jz67g.jpg" border="0" alt="Simple, Free Image and File Hosting at MediaFire" /> https://www.mediafire.com/convkey/8e9d/mhlo8q7b79o2xz37g.jpg" border="0" alt="Simple, Free Image and File Hosting at MediaFire" /> https://mega.nz/#!3Ec3jBII!a4jwyKBOwmZGD5wx7CbElRNobYZDMGUG2z3xXa9beNw Merry Christmas and Happy New Year! :-) |
| Nitroboy 25.12.2014 15:25 |
Thank you! :) |
| bootLuca 25.12.2014 15:34 |
thanks a lot, great work!! ;) |
| DepeX 25.12.2014 15:50 |
I don't know what to say... Simply GREAT! Thanks for your work Chief! |
| vivaqueen 25.12.2014 15:58 |
MERCI BEAUCOUP |
| MarkRW 25.12.2014 16:16 |
Lovely work. Many thanks for sharing it with us. |
| Vali 25.12.2014 16:16 |
This is incredible, Chief! My "chief mouse restorations" hard drive folder is already getting quite loaded and each new addition gets better and better! Thanks very much and merry Xmas!! |
| Rami 25.12.2014 17:19 |
Great! Thank you very much and merry Christmas!! |
| zippo112 26.12.2014 01:13 |
man you are great! yes somebody said here you sould work for Queen ...yep thats true..you would do a far better job than who's in charge now of video restoration...remember The great pretender documentary....remember the 1990 footage of Freddie and Mary's son...and the footage of his cat...they were pixelated very bad,,,,but u do a great job man!!!! |
| BETA215 26.12.2014 01:36 |
Thank you so much! I think you (with C_Matt) should work at Queen Productions Ltd., along with the current employers. You would do an incredible job. |
| CERATOPHRYS 26.12.2014 02:44 |
Thanks a lot!! Amazing job as always. |
| Chief Mouse 26.12.2014 02:59 |
Thanks for all the comments. Your support keeps me going :) |
| BETA215 26.12.2014 03:13 |
^ When you're feeling down and your resistence is low. Read another QueenZone thread and let yourself go. |
| bootLuca 26.12.2014 03:24 |
thanks to you man! I don't think we can find a better version of this, these videos are taken from the videotapes on which was recorded the transmissions of 1984 The lineage is something like this: Original 1984 broadcast --> recorded on videotapes --> tranferred on dvd in 2014 --> wonderful restoration by Chief Mouse |
| pittrek 26.12.2014 03:50 |
Nice work! |
| gerry 26.12.2014 04:24 |
Good job done there! i love these two performances at sanremo 1984, freddie looked so relaxed and in charge. It is a shame these two performances were missed out from official Queen release Dvds as bonus tracks. |
| Chief Mouse 26.12.2014 04:37 |
^ well, at least we have the Montreux 84 & 86 in great quality released on The Greatest Video Hits II :) |
| Chief Mouse 26.12.2014 04:38 |
^ well, at least we have the Montreux 84 & 86 in great quality released on The Greatest Video Hits II :) |
| gerry 26.12.2014 05:08 |
Sure Montreux 1984 & 1986 were welcomed with open arms on the official Queen release Dvds. As Queen collectors we get greedy for everything to get a released, but sanremo 1984 should have got priority somewhere on a Queen release. Not many fans have seen that one! |
| bootLuca 26.12.2014 05:08 |
gerry wrote: It is a shame these two performances were missed out from official Queen release Dvds as bonus tracks.these performances are owned by the Italian RAI TV, so QP would have to buy the rights from the TV, but you already know the official speeches like "not worth buying things like this because they cost too much" ;) |
| rhapsody8 26.12.2014 05:30 |
great improvements. thanks a lot... |
| Kacio 26.12.2014 05:30 |
Which program you use Chief to make something like this? :D |
| HyperBoy 26.12.2014 05:47 |
This is really impressive. The screenshot comparison alone looks miraculous to me. Thanks a lot for the precious gift, Santa ! |
| brians wig 26.12.2014 06:05 |
That's a cracking Job. Thanks :) |
| Chief Mouse 26.12.2014 06:13 |
brians wig wrote: That's a cracking Job. Thanks :) You're welcome and everyone else too. By the way, you can easily make this into an interlaced MPEG2 file if you please :) I de-interlaced to double FPS so it's possible. |
| Chief Mouse 26.12.2014 06:14 |
Kacio wrote: Which program you use Chief to make something like this? :D For this it was a combination of Avisynth, Virtualdub and After Effects. |
| Raffy 26.12.2014 06:36 |
Great as always Chief! Thanks and happy holidays everybody ;) |
| pittrek 26.12.2014 07:24 |
Chief Mouse wrote: ^ well, at least we have the Montreux 84 & 86 in great quality released on The Greatest Video Hits II :)Well but Montreux 86 is cut on the official source. Wouldn't it be a good idea to combine the broadcast recording with the official release? |
| Barry Durex 26.12.2014 08:38 |
Nice work again, thanks for sharing. |
| MackMantilla 26.12.2014 09:33 |
Thanks for this xmas gift, Chief Mouse :) |
| Nitroboy 26.12.2014 14:20 |
gerry wrote: Sure Montreux 1984 & 1986 were welcomed with open arms on the official Queen release Dvds. As Queen collectors we get greedy for everything to get a released, but sanremo 1984 should have got priority somewhere on a Queen release. Not many fans have seen that one! While I agree that these two TV-spots should be released - mostly for the sake of having a complete anthology of the band's work - they're not all that special. |
| gerry 27.12.2014 04:56 |
I think foreign tv appearances from Freddie and Queen are worthy as long as it is good quality. In my opinion both nights are certainly worthy of a dvd release even as a filler or bonus material. |
| rhapsody8 28.12.2014 03:56 |
pittrek wrote: Well but Montreux 86 is cut on the official source. Wouldn't it be a good idea to combine the broadcast recording with the official release? Sorry for my ignorance but which part is cut on the official release? |
| pittrek 28.12.2014 05:38 |
84. not 86. The first minute or so of Radio Ga Ga is missing. I gave Chief Mouse the missing bit from a broadcast recording, unfortunately in crappy quality |
| tassilo 30.12.2014 13:36 |
Thank you. |
| Double-U 05.01.2015 14:36 |
Thank you very much Chief for all the efforts and upgrades and all the love and sweat you gave to bring these spots up here. best regards, W. |
| Mr.QueenFan 06.01.2015 09:38 |
Thanks a lot for this Chief. Another great restoration. You keep doing things to these videos that i didn't know were even possible. |
| Mr.QueenFan 06.01.2015 09:54 |
On a side note, i didn't enjoy the extra audio track. This song is - in my opinion - one of the best Pop songs ever produced. In this version, i miss the light of the song, so to speak. I understand that some Queen songs can be tweaked according to people tastes, but i never felt that Radio GaGA was one of them. |
| Gregsynth 28.01.2015 06:54 |
Thank you! |
| hobbit in Rhye 01.05.2015 11:58 |
Based on the comparison pics it looks like a big improvement in quality. Thanks a lot, Chief. I agree with MrQueenFan that Radio Gaga is one of the best Pop songs ever produced ;) Listening to that song in a live concert and clapping hands together is gold. |
| Lazing On A Sunday Afternoon 17.05.2015 03:30 |
Thank you very much for this fantastic upgrade! |