Captured In Capistrano
Data:
24 August 1997 |
1. Intro 2. King 3. Interview with Steve Hogarth & Mark Kelly 4. Kayleigh 5. Lavender 6. Afraid of Sunlight 7. Interview with Ian Mosley 8. 80 Days 9. Interview with Steve Rothery 10. Hard As Love 11. Interview with Pete Trewavas 12. Slainte Mhath 13. Interview with Steve Hogarth 14. This Strange Engine 15. Interview with Mark Kelly & steve Hogarth 16. The Great Escape |
This was the first show of the 1997 North American Tour.
The source of this DVD release is a 1st gen VHS tape
of this proshot video. The source tape was
generously donated for conversion by a member of this list who wished to see
this rare video shared with the rest of the list. A 2 disc VCD version
has also been prepared for those that can't participate in
trading the DVD, due to lack of a DVD burner.
First, a little background on this video. According to information
at the first of the video, Mike McCaleb, the producer of
the video, says he contacted Mark Kelly, proposing
to film the Capistrano show. Apparently the shoot was coordinated in just 2 days.
I suggest that there was a hope on Mike's Part that
Marillion would use this as a Racket Release , because at the first of the
video, the opening credits list both Blue Cow
Productions and Racket Records. During an interview in the film, Mike is talking
to Mark Kelly, and mentions that he had not been financially able to contribute
to the NA Tour Fund at the time, and thus this film was his way of contributing.
While it is only speculation on my part that Mike
hoped this would be used by the band as an official release, I doubt that the
band had any intentions of this being an official
release. For instance, the audio is not from the soundboard. Yes, this is a
proshot, with multiple tripod steady cameras, but
the sound is from an audience
recording. If it were the band's intention that they
might even consider using the film shot that night as an official release,
then they would have given Mike access to the
soundboard, I would think. Personally, I think that Marillion thought that it
would be made into a documentary, or TV spot that
would give them some publicity. The video was made with the bands full knowledge
and consent, as evidenced by interviews with each member. In any event, we all
know that it was not officially released, nor did it ever appear on TV. The
video seemed destined to sit in Mike's closet gathering dust, never to be seen
by anyone else. He did however make a couple copies.
The tape used for this DVD is one of those few copies. The donor of the source
tape can provide the background on how he got his copy, but that's his story to
tell if he wishes.
The video does not contain the full concert. Nor are
the songs presented in the order they were perfrmed that night. Mike used
the style of showing a song or two, then showing a band
member interview, and then another song or two, then an interview. This
is similar to a style Marillion has used in the past for
one of their own video releases. It is done in a
cohesive fashion, and the songs played normally have something to do with
something discussed in the interview that precedes
it.
Finally, just a note on the technicalities of the
DVD production. The capture of the source video to my hard drive went smoothly
except for one small bit at the first of the tape.
There was a trackng probem at the first of the tape, which caused a bit of a
disturbance with the audio for the first minute of the tape.
The video tracks fine, but there is some audio tracking
static for the first minute. After that, the rest of the video tracked
perfectly. I played the first minute a few times in my VCR
with different tracking settings. I then edited the audio in this
section, picking the best part of the audio from each of
these runs and editing them together. I was not able
to hide all the static in that first minute, but it was at least reduced to a
couple short rough spots.
Capture was done via a D/A outboard conversion, fed
by fire wire to my hardrive in uncompressed AVI format. After the video was
edited, the conversion to mpeg 2 video was done with
Main Concept encoder in high quality mode, with a VBR for best results. The DVD
disc was authored on my PC, complete with an interactive menu,
and chapters. DVD case artwork is included on the DVD. Just look in the included
artwork folder on the disc, and print it off.
I hope all Marillion fans join with me in thanking the list member
who contributed the tape used to make this DVD.
Dodano: 19.09.2010