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by brent » Fri Oct 14, 2005 10:07 am
What everyone is saying that is lost is the master used to maufacture. The reason that another cannot be made, is the bulk footage is gone. That stuff went away with a studio that is out of business. I was told this by two people that were directly involved in the production.
The production masters would be the next valuable asset to locate.
The reason that you would need these masters, is to get the audio and video to lock together with what is called sync, or timecode. Both the audio and the video master recorded this code when the production was done. When the machines "chase" the time code coming from the tapes, then they lock together. Over time, tapes deteriorate. If not stored in a climate controlled tape vault, then they will literally gum up, or flake apart. They would need to be baked in a tape oven for a one time transfer into digital.
You want the virgin masters preserved, because of the quality. Any copy of that is one generation away, and many lines of resolution away from the original picture quality. The audio masters still exist. When I talked to JDB, he knew exactly where they were.
Louie has a virgin copy of the finished product. So does Greg according to Louie. Louie said that he also has copies of every show that they filmed/taped. They did some shooting before the concerts that make up CITAS/CITS/CIT&S.
All other masters were destroyed according to three people that were directly involved with the project. They speculated as to who did it and that it had to do with GXVs departure. This may be the thing that they could kick themselves for now, since everyone is playing nice now.
As long as Louie and Greg had kept their copies in excellent shape, then could possibly be digitized, and then sync'd to remixed audio. It would be time consuming, as the video will be off from the video for many technical reasons. But it could be done.
I lined up JDB to remix in Nuendo, and put it in some psuedo surround format. He was ready to go. I asked Bob via e-mail for permission to license and distribute CITAS. He responded, "How do you know that EMI doesn't have plans for it? Aren't you getting ahead of yourself?" So, I called Richard Green at EMI who told me that it would be a $25,000 deal they figured. But they would never, ever, ever, for any reason, license EMI assets. they would sit in the vault forever. They did not care. They said that it was up to the publisher. I told them that I asked Bob. I told Richard my response and Richard just laughed. I then got a speech about publisher greed and modern consumer marketing through EMI glasses.
It will never be on a DVD. They will have to pay Greg and Bob too much money, and the product will never look as good as it could have. It will be a digitized copy of a copy of a copy of a copy of the video. The audio could be stellar. There has to be more material to justify the production also. See my previous rants.
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