New Enhanced Edition - LACON 2008 - J2 Breakfast
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Here's my newest video, the J2 breakfast from LA in March 2008.
Of all the conventions that badly need the "Enhanced Edition" treatment, this one is surely high on that list. Even if you don't normally use them, I recommend turning on the subtitles this time. For some reason Jared and Jensen were only given a single microphone to share, which meant one or both of them often didn't use it at all. I ended up with many of the dreaded [inaudible]'s, but I think I did pick up a lot more through repeated listening than what most people would catch from a single casual watch-through.
I mentioned this in the "What's Next?" section of my last video announcement, but I had the great fortune to make contact with Candygramme while searching for videos for this project. She has a beautiful 4.5 minute clip from the breakfast video that you'll see around the middle of the panel. That portion of the panel was covered in other videos, but not in such good quality. You can see the difference in my comparison images below.
Due to camera battery difficulties, she wasn't able to capture Jared's solo panel or the first half of Jensen's, but she did catch the second half of Jensen's and the entire main J2 panel. She has a little under 3 minutes' worth of coverage that's not covered at all by any other videos I've seen, plus I counted about 8.5 minutes where she was the only one who had Jared in the frame along with Jensen during the main J2 panel. There's a lot of fun banter between them in that panel so being able to see both of them makes a huge difference! I don't believe her videos are on YouTube, so a lot of people may not have them and I'm excited to share them.
Jared's solo panel from this convention is next. Unfortunately this one will have a lot of gaps. I have about 21.5 minutes' worth of footage.
Jensen's solo panel will follow that one, and then the main J2 panel. I have full coverage for both of those, along with the new-to-many-of-us footage as described above.
Before/After Comparison Photos
The first comparison shots from Candygramme's footage only represents 4.5 minutes of the video, as mentioned above. The rest will look more like the second set which was the source I used the most of. So most of the video quality won't be great, but you can see the expressions on their faces a little better in the enhanced version so I'm hopeful people will consider this to be an improvement over whatever they might have watched before.
A recap for anyone not familiar with this project…
In December 2023, I started a project to enhance old convention videos. The project is mostly focused on Jared and Jensen, but there will occasionally be videos with other actors. I'm upscaling the videos and making other visual improvements, adding extra content to clarify various references, and adding human-generated, color-coded subtitles so you can better understand the sometimes-chaotic audio. The subtitles can be auto-translated to other languages via YouTube.
My goal is to publish the best, most complete, and most watchable versions of these older convention panels yet seen, but this is only possible thanks to the fans who captured the footage in the first place and were generous enough to share it with other fans. My video descriptions on YouTube will always credit my sources.
If you have any old convention videos you'd be willing to contribute to this project, please message me! I can also be reached at [email protected]. If I can get them to upscale (I can't always), I'd happily send the upscaled files back to you for your own collection whether I use them or not.