1 year ago

Final time I will post this -- decided it was good enough to push it to 2160p (4K) resolution at 60 frames per second.

This video was recorded by Justin Kreutzmann
Thanks for letting us use it and put it under the knife, I really love the way this came out -- I hope everyone else does as well.

This video started as 720x480 (interlaced) --- Deinterlaced to 480p60 and converted to 1:1 pixel aspect ratio (LCD screens are not designed for interlaced video or NTSC sized pixels, so this conversion really helps with the 480p quality. interlaced video is 60 fields per second, so when you properly comptuer for motion vectors, you can write a script to get a "perfect" 60 frames per second progressive (59.94)

Josh and I ran this through a whole gamut of editing processes and I decided over the last week that with the overall quality over the video, scaling to 4k relatively accurately would be possible, and I think it really worked out great. 4k has far more advantage on a platform like youtube on any screen size, just for the bitrate increase.

We used a matrix (lineage below) to re-track this video

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All postproduction work on this video and the audio was performed by Josh Davis and Christopher Hazard.
Thank you
10/10/2022

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====================Video Source used to construct this remaster ====================

Below is all that came with it for audio/video lineage. I believe Justin K. probably filmed this. Snippets from it are used in the Grateful Dawg video. I assume the audio to be SBD or really good sounding from the camera. I also did an audio version with a small amount of the audience source I listed way below blended in as well and that one is labeled as matrix. The video was already deinterlaced at 29.9 and nothing was needed to correct it in Davinci, so I left it completely alone.

Garcia & Grisman
12-7-91
Warfield Theater
San Francisco Ca

Pro Shot
G SPOT SAYS
Audio Codec MPEG-1 Layer 2
Audio Bitrate: 224 kb/s tot , Stereo
Video System: NTSC 29.97 fps
Video Bitrate: 6121 kbps
Off to Sea Once More
FOTD
Arabia
Oh the Wind and the Rain
Sitting in Limbo
GOd Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen
Ripple
Other audio source for matrix version:
MAD (Vintage 1950s Neumann 257s)~Denon DAT deck (model unknown)) ~ DAT ~ WAV ~ SHNv3.
Tapers: J.& C. Vasseur.
DAT material provided by J.Powell.
DAT ~ SHN by C.Ladner: Sony PCM-R500 ~ coaxial S/PDIF ~ M Audio Audiophile 2496 ~ WAV recording/editing (Soundforge 6) ~ tracking (cdwav editor) ~ sector boundaries confirmed (shntool) ~ SHN (mkwact).