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U2
2009-07-21
Amsterdam ArenA, The Netherlands
Vision Over Visibility

Lineage: Panasonic SDR-S26 --> Sony Vegas 7.0 --> Nero 8
Additional clips: Youtube HD --> Sony Vegas 7.0 --> Nero 8
Video: PAL 16:9 widescreen (25fps), 720 x 576
Audio: Dolby AC3, 128Kbps, 2ch stereo

Tracks:
01 Kingdom (intro)
02 Breathe
03 No Line On The Horizon
04 Get On Your Boots
05 Magnificent
06 Beautiful Day
07 Elevation
08 Desire 
09 Stuck In A Moment
10 One
11 Until The End Of The World 
12 City Of Blinding Lights
13 Vertigo
14 I'll Go Crazy If I Don't Go Crazy Tonight
15 Sunday Bloody Sunday 
16 Pride (In The Name Of Love)
17 MLK
18 Walk On 
19 Desmond Tutu Speech
20 Where The Streets Have No Name
21 Bad 
22 Ultra Violet (Light My Way)
23 With Or Without You
24 Moment Of Surrender 
25 Band Walking Off Stage

kerrylives notes:
Let me first say it was a lot of work to create this DVD, but I enjoyed doing it. I used our own film as the first source to work from, since we had the whole show covered. 
It was shot right in front of the stage by my brother. We had seats on the far side of the stage. 
We managed to get all our equipment (including a huge tripod) past security, but were caught later on inside the venue before the show started. 
For some reason however they didn't notice the camcorder. 
We had plenty of time to build an improvised tripod from material scattered throughout the Amsterdam ArenA.
So we could make use of the camera's 70x optical zoom without too much shake. 
Where needed I mixed in quite a lot HD clips from Youtube uploaded by other filmers (well over a hundred). 
All credits for the additional material used in this DVD goes to them: Interference74, U2006.com and many others. Thank you, very, very much!

My objective while working on this project was mainly to create a film of the entire concert that would fit on a single DVD. 
Also I wanted it to contain as much as possible steady shot material, so it would be fun to watch multiple times. 
I didn't want to make it high definition, but it should be fine to watch on a regular SD widescreen television. 
In the end I used over a dozen camera angles in the final version. The second Amsterdam show was clearly the better one of the two. 
Not only did we get three songs making their tour debut (Bad, Until The End Of The World & Elevation), but both the band and the audience were on fire. 
(Bono even makes mention of this after Elevation.) So after two weeks of editing, synchronizing and rendering over a hundred clips it is finally here: 
my multicam version of an awesome show!

one8ung notes:
Remixed with the B!gGiRL matrix "Playing With The Fire"