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(no I don't know how to turn off the overlay.)

We're going live in a few minutes on New Ellijay Television with Doctor Deathray and Special Guests

https://vod.newellijay.tv/w/hPrMTPpUuP8ZLoaqHTkLmd

The video is just the HDMI output from the camera, and it doesn't look good. The audio is the built in mic on my laptop and it doesn't sound good.

There will be a better version in a week or so, but if you want it live this is what you get!

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@glitchbot glitichtize me cappin

It's farmers market time.

Who's ready for the longest Saturday in history.

I have to be at the farmer's market in 8 hours. Goodnight.

I'm all about parentheticals tonight.

Even still, the live mixing looks good. These folks make the videofreex Mountain concert look like a bunch of amateurs (because these folks were working with a network, and the freex were figuring it out on the fly. 4 years had passed between the mountain video and this footage, techniques had improved.)

I really wonder what the Show all of this went in to looked like, because it wouldn't have been a live broadcast.

This appears to be the raw tape, and not the finished episode (and, frankly, that's way cooler In General, but it's disappointing in this context knowing that the finished episode probably included some clips from every band that played this night, including the Ramones and whatever Richard Hell was doing at the time.)

It would have been broadcast from the tape (and broadcasting from 1/2 tape was not an easy task! The timecode of the tape was almost always garbage, so you needed to feed it through a sync pulse generator. I think the Videofreex were likely the first folks to figure out how to do that, and I think that they likely taught the Metropolis folks how to do it, considering that they had some overlap in membership.)

They're live video mixing, which means they've got at least two if not three cameras on the ground, and maybe also a monitor, in addition to their tape recorder.

This makes sense, because they had the budget of a real TV network, and you could get five or six portapaks for the cost of a single traditional camera.

Here is their Talking Heads footage: https://yewtu.be/watch?v=xYjUx26SF4s

It looks bad, but it's impossible to say how much of that is the portapak and how much of that is the transfer and how much of that is the transcode.

I've shot a Lot of footage on the same camera that they used for this footage, and it all looks Much better than this.

I haven't shot much footage on 1/2" tape, but I have watched a lot of footage originally shot on 1/2" tape, and it usually looks better than this.

Then again, this gets better as the video goes on, and the audio is honestly really great.

These folks get talked about less than the others that I've mentioned for a few reasons, though I suppose the biggest among them being that they were "just" recording concerts and not making grand political statements or shooting documentaries or whatever.

I suspect the bigger reason that they don't get talked about, though, is copyright. Why would anyone talk about video they can't watch?