{"id":3604,"date":"2022-08-07T12:58:49","date_gmt":"2022-08-07T12:58:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pusabase.com\/blog\/?p=3604"},"modified":"2022-08-07T12:58:49","modified_gmt":"2022-08-07T12:58:49","slug":"elvis-presley-hampton-roads-1972-restoration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pusabase.com\/blog\/2022\/08\/07\/elvis-presley-hampton-roads-1972-restoration\/","title":{"rendered":"Elvis Presley – Hampton Roads 1972 Restoration"},"content":{"rendered":"

9 April 1972 – Elvis Presley at the Coliseum, Hampton Roads, Virginia – All Shook Up \/ Teddy Bear \/ Don’t Be Cruel – Video<\/h2>\n

Sorry to those who don’t like Elvis, but it’s time for another Elvis Presley video restoration. In the last month or so, I have tried to dive into Elvis bootleg world. But it’s not easy, and plenty of money is involved. I also learned that many of the Elvis websites seem to openly promote bootlegs. It’s kinda hazy to see what is official and what not. First I thought the Sold Out! series was some sort of official series (or with some sort of official blessing given)<\/p>\n

I feel bad for the regular bootleg loving Elvis fans who shovel the money to highly priced bootleg releases that are pretty poorly done. What I was most surprised that there is no Elvis Presley “database” for bootleg releases (ratings, comparison or anything else). There are like 20 different releases from each show. It’s a hit or miss…<\/p>\n

I bought the Star label’s “Virginia Loves Elvis” bootleg (because I don’t have anything to trade), and I got hugely disappointed. “This digitally remastered set has been re-edited from scratch”. It’s far from being remastered. I don’t know what was actually remastered? Elvis looks pale as a ghost from some angles. Suffers from a low bitrate audio and DVD encoding, has a wrong frame rate (PAL 25fps, and it should be NTSC 29.97fps). It’s also a cropped widescreen…<\/p>\n

Sharing the releases on YouTube is not the best platform. Soon as the YouTube encoding kicks in, plenty of details get lost. Of course I wanted to see if I can improve the “Virginia Loves Elvis” bootleg. I did a basic color correction, and some minor sharpening. It’s not going to look or sound so great on YouTube (double encoding & double audio encoding from already low bitrate source)
\nUpper photo is the original, and the lower one is my “remaster”. It’s still not perfect, but I don’t see a point of spending too much time on editing poorly sourced material.<\/p>\n

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PS. Can someone tell me more about the last shot? Clearly Elvis is giving the finger. But for what and to whom? Because it’s clearly intended. <\/p>\n

Pretty soon after I made the previous Elvis restoration I was offered private tapes (that should be kept private), and I was asked for money for those. I don’t understand the bootleg world. Keeping their tapes private, like they are holding a holy grail. Of course I have been contacted by so called uber collectors from collectors of other artists too.<\/p>\n

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