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→Jimmy Johnson's comments on the album
JJ: “That was about as close as we got to a complete musical train-wreck on this gig. The only thing worse would have been if he could not have revived the controller and we would have had to stop mid-tune.”
==Some technical notes on the video production by producer Greg Beaton==
Greg Beaton has offered a peak into the video remastering process here:
https://vimeo.com/434449790
Additionally, here's an excerpt of a comment by Greg on Facebook:
GB: ...with the limited budget and inability to make new cuts (add edits) on many of the transitions (because of frame rate conversion) and treat every shot separately, I felt the best choice was to globally expose for everyone’s skin (and Allan’s fretboard) and allow the highs to blow out. I kept going back and forth and I just felt it was a better compromise to portray their faces and instruments as natural - not that I feel like what I did was drastically better than the original, since it does fall short in lots of situations, but I felt that while the original was technically legal for broadcast tv, that namely their faces and Allan’s guitar were “in the dark.” I’m guessing it was a combination of not-so-great lighting and the camera technology you highlighted leaving us with a less-than-stellar luminance curve. I tried to bring only the mids up, but had to blow out the highs to keep any kind of normal contrast ratio. This of course left me with overexposed white piano keys and cymbals, but I felt like I was choosing the lesser of 2 evils, since the artists are the subjects we care most about. I also went back and forth with the black levels / setup, but ended up feeling bumping it up slightly to reveal a bit of information that was falling off too quickly to shadow was worth the compromise of noise. No noise reduction was employed.
Dangerous D-Box & Focal Solo 6 Be’s used for audio monitoring; video was simply referenced to taste between a consumer Dell LED and Plasma monitor. I believe my card is a Radeon 580.
Found at https://www.facebook.com/groups/allanh/permalink/2935459816576976/
