50th Monterey Jazz Festival
This was an interesting challenge - to create a 90-minute video with less than 12 minutes of original video from the event, and most of that of poor quality and less-than optimum position (much of the live video comes from the backstage entrance, and only the drummer and bassist are visible! Most of the rest is from standard hand-held cameras set to video mode.) And I should mention this is all in old-fashioned 4:3 mode, like standard television - no widescreen or HD - yet...
There were simply not enough photos for all the songs, so I had to reuse them more often than I like. But the perdormances were alll first-rate, so I did it anyhow. Thank goodness for Ken Burns and Vegas 6.0...
The audio came directly from the stage mixing console, and isn't that bad - except there was a -30dB filter at 200 Hz across the entire show that cut the bass to virtually inaudible. I had to try and 'undo' the filter, with less than perfect results. (This is not a swipe at the sound techs, it's wind noise prevention - but it makes it hard to get a good audio track this way.)
The DVD, warts and all, is available for $10+S/H
