| pittrek 03.01.2015 10:38 |
This is a tiny little video share. As you maybe know Greatest Video Hits 2 DVD contains both Queen performances at Montreux, one from 1984 and one from 1986. For some reason however the 1984 show is edited, more than a minute of Radio Ga Ga is cut. I managed to get the missing minute from a fellow collector, however the quality is very poor. I gave it to Chief Mouse, he did try the best he could to remaster it, for which I'm really thankful :) So the next video is a merge of 2 videos, 1) PRO > TV broadcast > VHS(x) > DVD > Chief Mouse remastering > MKV 2) PRO > ? > Greatest Video Hits 2 DVD > DVDDecrypter > NeatVideo cleanup (if I remember correctly) > AVI Download @ 1fichier : link Youtube: link Does anybody have a BETTER quality copy of the missing part? If yes, please let me know or share it, thanks a lot |
| Chief Mouse 03.01.2015 11:36 |
Thanks! |
| people on streets 03.01.2015 13:21 |
Thanks to all involved. Best wishes for 2015 Peter. |
| Nitroboy 03.01.2015 13:40 |
Thanks, to both of you! :) |
| Marknow 03.01.2015 14:01 |
Nice one lads. |
| Rami 03.01.2015 15:34 |
Thank you very much indeed! |
| DepeX 04.01.2015 03:14 |
Thanks to both! |
| HyperBoy 04.01.2015 04:15 |
Thank you very much, gentlemen ! I'm truly appreciative of the tremendous knowledge and the kind efforts to share it with us (this applies especially to several persons here of course !). I wish I had anything special to share as well... |
| Barry Durex 04.01.2015 08:23 |
I think I know somebody who has the first part in fairly decent quality. I'll try and find out. |
| MackMantilla 04.01.2015 08:33 |
thanks :-) |
| pittrek 04.01.2015 09:15 |
Barry Durex wrote: I think I know somebody who has the first part in fairly decent quality. I'll try and find out.That would be great ! |
| Barry Durex 04.01.2015 10:47 |
pittrek wrote:I'll post a link on this thread if he sends me it.Barry Durex wrote: I think I know somebody who has the first part in fairly decent quality. I'll try and find out.That would be great ! |
| The Real Wizard 04.01.2015 12:41 |
Barry Durex wrote:Seriously? For footage that was shown on TV? Ugh.pittrek wrote:The good news is he has it, the bad news is it is trade only. He sent me a screen shot though.Barry Durex wrote: I think I know somebody who has the first part in fairly decent quality. I'll try and find out.That would be great ! I have an old VHS with the Montreal 84/86 in excellent quality, and I'm pretty sure it's unedited. Anyone in Canada or the US with a good VCR and the means to transfer to digital? I'll happily send my tapes to them. |
| brians wig 04.01.2015 13:34 |
Seriously! I think I'd better dig out my VHS... Damn QPL for putting out an edit. |
| DepeX 04.01.2015 13:38 |
Bob, I'm in Italy but I can do it, PM me if you want |
| The Real Wizard 04.01.2015 14:20 |
DepeX wrote: Bob, I'm in Italy but I can do it, PM me if you wantI appreciate the offer - but the Canada Post rates are outrageous. It has to be somewhere around here. |
| DepeX 04.01.2015 14:32 |
Yeah, I know. Anyway, I've sent you a PM for another thing |
| Barry Durex 05.01.2015 03:59 |
brians wig wrote: Seriously! I think I'd better dig out my VHS... Damn QPL for putting out an edit.Did you record this one yourself by any chance? |
| Barry Durex 09.01.2015 01:56 |
The Real Wizard wrote: I have an old VHS with the Montreal 84/86 in excellent quality, and I'm pretty sure it's unedited. Anyone in Canada or the US with a good VCR and the means to transfer to digital? I'll happily send my tapes to them.Come on, this is a kind offer, surely there is a taker?? |
| brians wig 09.01.2015 07:28 |
Barry Durex wrote:No, but my ongoing quest to find the best quality clips inorder to produce some kind of year by year video scrapbook has resulted (over the last 7 years or so), in me obtaining 3 other peoples collections (and I'm talking fans who were collecting from the 70's onwards, as well as my own collected from 86 onwards) with one more collection to come in the next couple of months once that person gets round to it. One of them will have an off air, if not all three.brians wig wrote: Seriously! I think I'd better dig out my VHS... Damn QPL for putting out an edit.Did you record this one yourself by any chance? Once all these tapes (and there's nearly 200) have all been collated and captured into the PC (I have 4gb full already), I can then go through each recording of the same item and, where necessary, edit a complete version from however many sources it takes and then clean up as best I can before encoding the final output. It's been a long job because life gets in the way - infact it's been a year since I had the time to capture anything as I do a full tape at a time and that can take up to day as I try to get the best out of each clip first because once a "fault" is inherent in the capture, it's generally stuck there. The other good thing, of course, is Chief Mouse has proved that footage can be cleaned up afterwards as well, so the better the footage to start with, the better the post capture clean up will be. |
| Barry Durex 09.01.2015 07:36 |
brians wig wrote:Sounds admirable, I misunderstood when you said you need to dig out your VHS.Barry Durex wrote:No, but my ongoing quest to find the best quality clips inorder to produce some kind of year by year video scrapbook has resulted (over the last 7 years or so), in me obtaining 3 other peoples collections (and I'm talking fans who were collecting from the 70's onwards, as well as my own collected from 86 onwards) with one more collection to come in the next couple of months once that person gets round to it. One of them will have an off air, if not all three. Once all these tapes (and there's nearly 200) have all been collated and captured into the PC (I have 4gb full already), I can then go through each recording of the same item and, where necessary, edit a complete version from however many sources it takes and then clean up as best I can before encoding the final output. It's been a long job because life gets in the way - infact it's been a year since I had the time to capture anything as I do a full tape at a time and that can take up to day as I try to get the best out of each clip first because once a "fault" is inherent in the capture, it's generally stuck there. The other good thing, of course, is Chief Mouse has proved that footage can be cleaned up afterwards as well, so the better the footage to start with, the better the post capture clean up will be.brians wig wrote: Seriously! I think I'd better dig out my VHS... Damn QPL for putting out an edit.Did you record this one yourself by any chance? Who are these collectors then? |
| Chief Mouse 09.01.2015 08:16 |
brians wig wrote:Exactly. A lot of things can be fixed with software but there are some basic issues like time base errors (jittery image) which can only be corrected with a TBC while doing the transfering. With it you can stabilize the signal that's coming from the tape. If you don't do that, the signal comes out possibly distorted and is forever lost once you finish digitizing. It can't be corrected with no software afterwards.Barry Durex wrote:so the better the footage to start with, the better the post capture clean up will be.brians wig wrote: Seriously! I think I'd better dig out my VHS... Damn QPL for putting out an edit.Did you record this one yourself by any chance? So yes, making the best possible transfer you can squeeze out is of crucial importance and it helps a lot if post-processing is needed. |
| brians wig 10.01.2015 10:39 |
Yep. Have always used a seperate TBC. I learnt pretty early on that if a VHS isn't an off-air, capturing digitally can lead to frame drops. My VHS machines (yes, have a few - some provide better pictures than others depending on the tape!) all have built in TBC option as well. Sometimes this can make a picture worse, sometimes better. Generally they stabilise the picture and add solidity to colours, but can also then add those colour striations you get on old multigenerational recordings depending on the recording! I generally have to play each clip while making manual adjustments to the input signal to get the best I can out of it before rewinding and capturing the clip. |
| Barry Durex 10.01.2015 11:03 |
Is the ''built in TBC'' you speak of the edit switch? SVHS VCRs also have s-video output for better transfers (if the receiving end allows) It's a shame that format was introduced so late in the day. They are the best option for transferring standard VHS. |
| brians wig 10.01.2015 18:07 |
No. The edit switch is something else. I find it generally just adds "sharpness" to the picture which makes it grainy. My machines are all SVHS: JVC HR-DVS2, Phillips VR1000, Panasonic VR HS 950 and another more basic JVC SVHS which is in storage. I'm still using a Matrox RT2500 capture card and my external TBC is an A.C.E. Converter, all of which were cracking pieces of kit 14 years ago and are still more than adequate for capturing VHS to DV AVI files for editing. Ironically, SVHS was the original VHS format, but it was deemed too expensive and so a cut down version (ie, VHS) was introduced first. Shame really. So many 80's recordings could have been better quality if they'd just stuck with SVHS to start with. |
| Mr.QueenFan 12.01.2015 15:18 |
Thanks a lot for sharing this Pittrek. I wasn't aware that the video was edited in GVH2. Great to have it complete. |
| RafaelS 12.01.2015 15:51 |
The Real Wizard wrote:That is so true. I don't know why everything is always more expensive here in Canada than elsewhere.DepeX wrote: Bob, I'm in Italy but I can do it, PM me if you wantI appreciate the offer - but the Canada Post rates are outrageous. It has to be somewhere around here. |
| The Real Wizard 13.01.2015 10:11 |
RafaelSomma wrote:Because we have a lot of land mass with less than 40 million people scattered in a small percentage of it. Costs add up. Imagine how much groceries cost in Yellowknife !The Real Wizard wrote:That is so true. I don't know why everything is always more expensive here in Canada than elsewhere.DepeX wrote: Bob, I'm in Italy but I can do it, PM me if you wantI appreciate the offer - but the Canada Post rates are outrageous. It has to be somewhere around here. |
| Barry Durex 13.01.2015 11:09 |
.... and there is a vast shortage of VHS players ;-) |
| The Real Wizard 13.01.2015 13:13 |
Oh god no, not in pawn shops. They're everywhere ! |
| Barry Durex 13.01.2015 14:05 |
So where's yours? |
| The Real Wizard 13.01.2015 14:18 |
In operation. I just don't have the right software to capture VHS - nor the time to do it. Hence my previous offer. |
| Barry Durex 13.01.2015 14:54 |
I'm just joshing ;-) |
| The Real Wizard 13.01.2015 15:07 |
Schmuck ;) |
| Barry Durex 14.01.2015 10:06 |
I received an interlaced vob file (just over 1 minute) of most of the unreleased part, here is the link:- link A little tip if you want to watch interlaced videos with VLC (and your PC has a LCD) Use auto de-interlace and set to Bob mode. Screen capture for file in link:- link |
| Barry Durex 20.01.2015 08:13 |
Well that fell on deaf ears, or is it blind eyes? |
| Chief Mouse 20.01.2015 10:43 |
I received this as well about the same time you posted it here. It's almost done. I'm still wondering whether it's worth doing full denoise or leave most of the VHS artifacts. Reason is that either version doesn't look that great. I'll probably end up sending it to Pittrek. Will probably do it this weekend - hardly have time. |
| tcc 28.01.2015 07:21 |
link |
| Gregsynth 28.01.2015 09:01 |
Thank you! |
