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Todd B's Collection

Frank Zappa   05/17/1988

Palacio De Deportes, Barcelona, Spain
Source Pro Shot
Media DVD-PAL   2 discs
Tech Notes Windows - TMPGEnc

This is the full Barcelona show, primarily from the Walk source. Two fills come from the You Are What You Is (YAWYI) source.

In the interests of fidelity, and after thinking about it for a while, I decided not to mess with the Walk material, or to limit the mess as much as possible. Re-encoding had to be minimized. Also, the fidelity of Walk needed to be maintained should a new, superior to YAWYI source materialize in order to facilitate further fixes.

To that end, here is a cut list and my rationale for each cut:

NOTE: SOURCE IS PAL

0s - 3m37s (5436f)
Walk source. This is the credits into a montage. The montage sequence is faulty in a few ways - picture starts before audio resulting in silence from 32s to 49s, after which the VO and music (Peaches from the LP, midsong) commence. Several of the silent shots consist of concert material from various legitmately available sources. Peaches backtimes to the 32s montage start, but I decided against laying in the album track because of copyright issues. Add them to the problem of finding the right clips from DHBIM, etc., and I thought I'd leave it for braver souls. When you get right down to it, I've seen all of the footage from the montage elsewhere, so someone really brave could grab the LP version, find better versions of all the montage elements, get the VO translated to English, re-voice it, and locate the elements missing from the end from further sources. Por favor.

20s (501 f)
This is a short shot from YAWYI, fixing the FF noise from the Betacam the VHS was recorded from. At many of the cuts in the master, due to technical issues relating to PAL broadcasts, between the outgoing frame (A) and the incoming frame (B) there exists a frame whose odd fields come from A, and whose even fields come from B. This is normal, but there is no way to cut from Walk to YAWYI cleanly unless you can find a clean cut at the same place on both tapes without either mismatched fields or cutting one frame. Because I couldn't find a nearby clean cut I opted for the mismatch for this and the following fixes.

10m13s (15348f)
Back to Walk. Same issues as above.

25s (629f)
Over to YAWYI. Up there.

1h58m9s (177235f)
Walk to END.

A total of 4 cuts were made, and 22 frames were re-encoded surrounding those cuts (GOP size is 12, so no one section exceeds 12 frames of re-encoding.

Audio is AC-3, 8 frames re-encoded.
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Owned by Todd B · Last Updated May 23, 2023