Live in Buenos Aires 1981 [Chief Mouse 2016 Edition]

I was planning to post this on December 31, then January 1 but things got delayed as encoding took longer than I expected (roughly 100 hours). So anyway here it is. I'd like to present you what is likely the best looking version of Buenos Aires to date. Anything better is very welcome because even with all that went into this, it's still not perfect and can never be perfect as there is only so much one can do with an old VHS sourced transfer. 2015 wasn't exactly big as far as my shares so this is the last present of 2015 from me to Queenzone and this is thanks to a couple of people who asked me to do the whole concert as I only did WATC and couldn't have been bothered to do the full thing otherwise. 

Audio - 

* Track 1 - a mix by Sue Dounim which can be found here. 

* Track 2 - original audio (slightly EQ'd by me). 

Video - 

* The logos (QTV; QUEEN) were made semi-transparent (you can call them grey). I did this because some people really dislike the blurry smudged blob that simple delogo process creates. So this way the logos are still there but should be less annoying. 

* The noise was pretty heavy and outlines around objects weren't solid but slightly ragged and jittery, if you know what I mean. I reduced these issues to minimum. 

* The green tinge is removed. 

Some comments - 

I was planning to post 2 versions - 50 FPS progressive and 25 FPS interlaced. The reason I am not posting the latter right now is that it would take too long time to do it properly as I'd pretty much have to create and author a DVD. I actually encoded an M2V file but not quite satisfied with it because I used my finished 50 FPS MKV for conversion (in order to save time, because it would just take too long to encode it directly from my script file with filters applied) and I used MPEG-2 compression (I didn't succeed in getting H.264 to recognise field order) so the quality turned out worse and video itself seemed somewhat softer than the MKV progressive encode plus the larger file size I'd have to upload as I can't set bitrate as low as with H.264 (even if I set it 3X higher to like 9000, it still looks worse than H.264 at 3000). 

I would appreciate it if it wasn't uploaded on youtube without at least mentioning where it's originally from (re, Queenzone) not to mention bootlegging (don't buy this stuff people). 

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Enjoy and happy 2016! :-)

Thanks, looking forward to watch the full version

Thank you very much Chief! Happy new year!

Amazing

Another great share with us Queen fans. You sure know how to upgrade video footage as you've showed us in the past. The pics looks very promising. Thanks!

I've seen a few bits, so I have to ask :-)

1) Was I too drunk when I sent you the chapters instructions or did you deliberately kept them out ? :-)
2) You don't have the "encore gaps" - is that an intentional edit or did your copy not have that footage? Would you mind if somebody added the missing footage back?

pittrek wrote: I've seen a few bits, so I have to ask :-)

1) Was I too drunk when I sent you the chapters instructions or did you deliberately kept them out ? :-)
2) You don't have the "encore gaps" - is that an intentional edit or did your copy not have that footage? Would you mind if somebody added the missing footage back?

1) I couldn't be bothered :-) Your information was probably correct.

2) Made no cuts at all. This is how the original source that I used was. Do those bits actually feature anything at all other than darkness, crowd shot or commenter babbling about? I wouldn't mind it I guess, but not too keen on the idea of re-encoding this. I mean, there's nothing crucial in those bits anyway, right?

I WANNA MARRY YOU

Chief Mouse wrote:

pittrek wrote: I've seen a few bits, so I have to ask :-)

1) Was I too drunk when I sent you the chapters instructions or did you deliberately kept them out ? :-)
2) You don't have the "encore gaps" - is that an intentional edit or did your copy not have that footage? Would you mind if somebody added the missing footage back?

1) I couldn't be bothered :-) Your information was probably correct.

2) Made no cuts at all. This is how the original source that I used was. Do those bits actually feature anything at all other than darkness, crowd shot or commenter babbling about? I wouldn't mind it I guess, but not too keen on the idea of re-encoding this. I mean, there's nothing crucial in those bits anyway, right?

Just the typical shots of the audience waiting, nothing musically important.

Looks incredible. Lots of thanks for your excellent work and of course sharing with us... I think that 2015 will close with "From Rags To Rhapsody" but your share is the last surprise for this year..

You're a master of video restoration... Many many thanks again....

Looks pretty interesting. Thank you. :)

Thanks for this share!
What audio codec have you used, because my TV writes "audio not supported" which is very strange, as it has Dolby Digital and DTS codecs...?

^ FLAC.

Thanks a lot. It looks great.

Chief Mouse wrote:

^ FLAC.

Is that wise?