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thank you. I am glad you are all so excited to see this, I am too

Damn that does look a whole lot better. The LD has a sort of hazy look to it.   Thanks for the screens.  How does one go about getting a copy, please?   :D     The dvd i have is a full dvd9 disc transfer of the LD and looks as good as the LD did basically. I would've been happy with that, but now Ive seen this......I can't sleep.  lol 
 
P.S- ignore my unrelated username and profile pic. :p  When I tried to sign up, it just wouldn't accept anything I submitted. Kept saying, try again. So I had to sign in with my Gmail account instead.  

Exactly- I don’t believe Alex or M - they did film the whole show even the director of photography says they did - why would would they film express yourself, turn off cameras for open your heart , then turn them back on again for causing ( there is only a snippet in the film but surely it must have been filmed in full ) it makes no sense 

Well, we don’t know if that cameras even on lol
But, I do believe that they filmed the whole thing too.
They may not have had the steadicam capture every song (we know this to be true about Cherish), but there where multiple cameras all throughout the place, would be silly to have them all stop for certain songs on all 3 nights.

It just boggles my mind. A tour so captivating and catapulting for females in the business, and the greatest of its time... how TF do you lose something like that? I call bullshit. LIES!

There used to be a thing in the 90's where the local and international press were permitted to film there first four songs of the show to use on their entertainment sections of the news etc. This would include Express Yourself, Open Your Heart, Causing A Commotion and Where's The Party. Then it was cameras off. 
That might explain why there is Where's The Party footage. Dunno.

I hear you honey. I mean look, you take it with a grain of salt. Same as M or anybody else releasing their art. I see it as art, I couldn’t fathom where to begin when upscaling. But if you can take the heat and criticism then definitely post your work. Just know for every negative dislike you have a few more positive likes. If you’re not sure if you’re proud of it then you won’t be confident in the final product. But you seem to really be happy with it. You do you child.
Make a preview  see what kind of feedback you get. That’s always a good start. 

Thanx, really 

flawless editing! This will probably be the BEST version here

thank you. You are truly wonderful ?

yes, a great deal of work is putting it mildly. I had to even color correct individual scenes and sometimes groups of frames, with davinci Resolve, this all needed to be done before Topaz AI, so I had to basically cut it to pieces and then overlay the audio, which I also worked on a great deal. But dont worry, its all 100% in synch, Madonna didnt take any part of the project. ? I look forward to fans response but I am a bit nervous too. To spend so much time, energy and failing so many times, before getting it this good, it would sting a bit if people disliked it. But its ok. Many sleepless nights and alot og money and patience. That is why I am a bit reluctant to post the Nice/Japan concerts in the video thread. I have gotten so many nasty comments before for being an obsessed loon with this tour. But my heart and soul went into this project. I feel like I created something extraordinary, yet I am terrified of negative feedback. 

I had to lower the contrast to get a less sharp/detailed picture before running it through Topas, I did it so I could more evenly re-sharpen it in the "after effect" part of the project. I hate how AI sharpens the face and the hair is not as sharp (not a problem in close ups though) but I managed to do a decent job of capturing hair details (some of the screen shots have her moving a bit, like LAV and Cherish) by pre-AI processing and AI after effects. This is why I slighly made the picture more faded before Topaz, so I could sharpen it with AVS, normally I hate "sharpening" it looks very fake if not done with care. Also I tried not to drown the concert in color.  So many make the show way too dark and too colorful, almost cartoonish. But I am no pro, just my opinion.

thank you. You are truly wonderful ?

yes, a great deal of work is putting it mildly. I had to even color correct individual scenes and sometimes groups of frames, with davinci Resolve, this all needed to be done before Topaz AI, so I had to basically cut it to pieces and then overlay the audio, which I also worked on a great deal. But dont worry, its all 100% in synch, Madonna didnt take any part of the project. ? I look forward to fans response but I am a bit nervous too. To spend so much time, energy and failing so many times, before getting it this good, it would sting a bit if people disliked it. But its ok. Many sleepless nights and alot og money and patience. That is why I am a bit reluctant to post the Nice/Japan concerts in the video thread. I have gotten so many nasty comments before for being an obsessed loon with this tour. But my heart and soul went into this project. I feel like I created something extraordinary, yet I am terrified of negative feedback. 

Well man, I find your screenshots quite good and I'd really really like to have the possibility to get the download links when you'll be ready. Thanks for your work (and fuck the critics, do your thing man )

links to both shows are coming soon. However I am still not sure if I want to post the links in the video section here, because I dont want a certain member to make fun of my 4 months of hard work, and he will 100% do just that and I am not up for any more drama. Of cource I can send you the links after I upload them, via PM? If you want a physical copy, I have a pro printer (also prints the discs) and I  can make the physicals and send you for free. Not doing this to profit, but not to be made fun of either. Mostly I did it because I REALLY wanted to. But I will share with anyone who is interested.

links to both shows are coming soon. However I am still not sure if I want to post the links in the video section here, because I dont want a certain member to make fun of my 4 months of hard work, and he will 100% do just that and I am not up for any more drama. Of cource I can send you the links after I upload them, via PM? If you want a physical copy, I have a pro printer (also prints the discs) and I  can make the physicals and send you for free. Not doing this to profit, but not to be made fun of either. Mostly I did it because I REALLY wanted to. But I will share with anyone who is interested.

hahahaha this moment reminds me of when in Truth or Dare M has to freak Spench and English LOL baby I have no idea what ur saying but I'm so happy the YOU'RE happy with the result! Hope we get to see it! Hard work pays off in the end.

I had to lower the contrast to get a less sharp/detailed picture before running it through Topas, I did it so I could more evenly re-sharpen it in the "after effect" part of the project. I hate how AI sharpens the face and the hair is not as sharp (not a problem in close ups though) but I managed to do a decent job of capturing hair details (some of the screen shots have her moving a bit, like LAV and Cherish) by pre-AI processing and AI after effects. This is why I slighly made the picture more faded before Topaz, so I could sharpen it with AVS, normally I hate "sharpening" it looks very fake if not done with care. Also I tried not to drown the concert in color.  So many make the show way too dark and too colorful, almost cartoonish. But I am no pro, just my opinion.

I had to lower the contrast to get a less sharp/detailed picture before running it through Topas, I did it so I could more evenly re-sharpen it in the "after effect" part of the project. I hate how AI sharpens the face and the hair is not as sharp (not a problem in close ups though) but I managed to do a decent job of capturing hair details (some of the screen shots have her moving a bit, like LAV and Cherish) by pre-AI processing and AI after effects. This is why I slighly made the picture more faded before Topaz, so I could sharpen it with AVS, normally I hate "sharpening" it looks very fake if not done with care. Also I tried not to drown the concert in color.  So many make the show way too dark and too colorful, almost cartoonish. But I am no pro, just my opinion.

Of course, links to DVD, Bluray (1080p) and 4k; for which I had to buy a new computer for. Having a software that takes advantage of high quality engine and selecting High Profile for H.264 codec, you need a computer that can handle it. I originally had someone doing this for me because I knew nothing about video editing/processing, but obsessive as I am, I was never happy so I learned to do it on my own and it was not easy. Learning about encoding, compression, deinterlacing, GOP settings, scene detection settings, H.264 profiles, MOV and/or H.264, amount of Bframes to be inserted in relations to the GOP settings, using such poor quality source, was a nightmare and it took months. Ironically using the AI software was the easiest part. Getting it good enoug before running it through Topaz was terrible. The hardest was the motion, I kept getting a slight judder/stutter in very fast moving moments  (that nobody seemed to notice but me), so alot of trial and error to get the motion smooth; a combination of amount of B frames; in regards to the GOP selected, that also depends on the fpr, and using the best bitrate settings. Variable bitrate and 2nd pass encoding did a good job but I liked using constant bitrate and I have versions using CBR rather than VBR, but those files are huge. Took me a while to figure out the best result for the 29.97fps was 2Bframes and a GOP of 150 (software had it autoset to 250) and 5.2 High Profile, but for my 60fpr version, I used GOP of 300, 3Bframes, and 5.2 high profile. I did 2 versions, using either CBR or VBR, and 2nd pass, but only VBR for 4k due to size, so basically I have 5 versions of Nice. For the "SD" which you may wonder why I bothered to do, I used CBR, and it looks amazing. The after effects from AVS Video editor helped alot (even though AVS is pretty simple) with the sharpness and gamma setting, but I used daVinci resolve for the colors and to optimize the video's motion.

links to both shows are coming soon. However I am still not sure if I want to post the links in the video section here, because I dont want a certain member to make fun of my 4 months of hard work, and he will 100% do just that and I am not up for any more drama. Of cource I can send you the links after I upload them, via PM? If you want a physical copy, I have a pro printer (also prints the discs) and I  can make the physicals and send you for free. Not doing this to profit, but not to be made fun of either. Mostly I did it because I REALLY wanted to. But I will share with anyone who is interested.

thank you, it was the hardest thing I have done, having no backround in video editing/processing at all. Alot of failed attempts. But I am very happy with the final result. It took a very long time and alot of patience and many sleepless nights.

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