The guy was a Steel Giant!

Some could have a little more patience and don't try to edit everything for them.

Curly could cut it! Let it be Curly's whole show!

By request, and against my better judgememt, I will also make a second disk which will contain all of Curlys comments, as well as portions of the St Louis show where Curly backed up Wade Ray and singers from the audience. (Some of this material was irretrievable lost due to an accident at the time of the taping.) However all the true dead time, (tuning etc,) will be edited out of this disk.

This disk will run at the slower speed, with the attendent loss of quality. It will be around 4 hours.

There is some new news, Curly's stepson, who is an audio and vidio engineer who does commercials for major corporations, is interested in seeing if he can use his facilities to enhance the picture and sound qualities. I don't know if this is possible, but it's certainly worth investigating.

This may mean more delays in the release date, but it might well be worth the wait.

I'll continue to keep you all informed.

If you don't make a disc with the boring stuff kept in, who will be disappointed? Only a handful of people who probably only think they want the whole thing.

However it's not going to cost much to make the masters, and when the time comes, I will only make copies of the unedited disk in very small lots, (maybe 10 at a time) and only after 5 or 6 people order them.

I think once these are finally made available, everybody will agree, the edited disk, with it's 2 hours of uninterrupted music, is possibly the hottest steel guitar video ever made, but the unedited one contains a lot of material that would have been better left on the cutting room floor.

The session to transfer the material from tape to disk is tentatively scheduled for the day after tomorrow.

I think it would be historical just to watch Curly tuning his guitar.

Why not Let us decide what is worthwhile watching or not.? I have got Scotty's Christmas Video tape of Curly and Bobby Caldwell.

But put me down for whatever you come up with, and thanks.....al

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If there is some cool things he did in the middle of tuning up, a few times,
that would be nice too. How he tuned and checked his tuning
is approriate to understanding his technique.
That's still him playing, even if not with the band on a song form.

Joking with the audience is cool too.
I can't imagine seeing Buddy and not hearing him BS with the crowd.
I imagine CC was the same ; a real character on stage.

But just swigging beer and having a smoke ain't entertainement.
So I still vote that out, with the dead air.

One thought;
is to do the musical segments are higher quality,
and the smaller talking and tuning tidbits at a lower quality.
DVD's don't care in playback.

I have worked as a video editor and mastered a few DVD's too.

Using the theory "Garbage in garbage out"... (tape format, not the performance)

IF the master tape is no better than enhanced VHS video,
then the full bandwidth benifits of DVD will not be evident,
nor will a slightly reduced quality of sampling be evident in playback.

The last concert DVD I did was edited back to
2 hours 45 min, from DVCAM and Mini DV sources,
and everyone was more than happy with a slightly lower sampling but the full "concert content" included
(175 players, 6 hours x 3 cameras/ 3.25 hours of detritus cut) .

Old VHS fed through the best Faroudja video signal enhancing box,
would still look like VHS on a DVD ; period, full stop.
Slightly improved VHS, but never approaching Mini-DV let alone Betacam SP, etc.
The AUDIO track would likely benifit the most from enhancement.
( Enhance it anyway, but don't expect it to aproach high end DVD sample quality.)

I suspect you can put most if not all of the real content on 1 DVD,
by using multiple sampling rates as appropriate for the content's value.
Depends on the system you are using of course.

It is cool Curley's stepson is interested and has facilities to help.
Good luck

[This message was edited by David L. Donald on 30 November 2005 at 05:56 AM.]

I'll take want ever you got on Curly.

It may make many issues for him, and you, clearer.

Andy, curious about the letter box idea.

Years back, in NYC, I edited a music video about human rights issues.
It was using tons of archival footage from so many sources you can't imagine.

Hand held BnW camcorders while running in Aceh riots,
Top shelf 1" studio shots of people saying really bad things,
Kinescopes of Elenor Rooseveldt,
spy camera shots of torture, news footage with Betacams, just before the cameraman is shot, and everything in between.

It was destined for big screeen outdoors at a UN sponsored human rights ralley in south america among other venues.

So how do you deal with footage from $50 surveilance cameras recorded at 1/8th normal VHS speed, when it's gonna be blown up to 35 foot screens?
Yeah good luck!

Enhance it, and give it a sampling that doesn't show artifacts ADDED to the original.

With 15-16 hours of footage to edit down to 7 minutes, there was nothing to be gained by over sampling dog poor footage.

[This message was edited by David L. Donald on 01 December 2005 at 07:04 AM.]