New Enhanced Edition - CHICON 2013 - Main J2 Panel
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Link to YouTube channel. (29 videos available.)
My newest video is up! I'm really excited to share this one because it includes over 33 minutes of footage that I believe has not been publicly available for over 10 years.
This is with huge thanks to AgtSpooky who sent me her great, full-length video. Her video never made it onto YouTube as best I could find and her share link has been dead for over 10 years. The other videos currently available only covered about half the panel.
The footage unique to AgtSpooky's video will be marked with a small * in the top-left corner of the sidebar.
Most of the footage I used came from AgtSpooky, but I used small bits of other sources also. My full credits are in the video description.
I recommend turning on the subtitles. The audio is pretty muffled.
Due to its length, the subtitles will break on this video if you try to translate them into other languages. (English will work fine.) If you need to translate them, please use the below links instead. It's the same video, just split up into two parts so the translation won't break.
Translatable Version Part 1
Translatable Version Part 2
On a different subtitle topic, I did finally finish updating Jared’s subtitle color on all my older videos to match what I’ve been using on my newer videos. I hope people will find this easier to read!
This concludes my temporary detour to 2013 and I've resumed my chronological progress through 2008. The next convention on the list is EyeCon from April 2008 in Orlando. (There was a second EyeCon panel in September 2008 which I also plan to get to, but this is the first one from April.)
EyeCon will only have one video, a 63-minute solo panel with Jared. With huge thanks to these playlists by kirathehyrulian on YouTube, I have an enormous amount of footage. By the time I'd finished collecting videos from all the sources she had found, I counted 99 videos from 22 sources adding up to over 6 hours of footage! It's a rather overwhelming amount, but I'd much rather have too much than too little. I'm just tackling it one small section at a time and it's going fine, if slowly.
All this footage is already public, but if any of you did what I did when I first started watching convention videos and you relied primarily on the wiki convention pages with the assumption that the fandom was diligently collecting all known videos there, you may not have seen anywhere near the entire panel. Surprisingly few video links from this panel ended up on the wiki. I think it only has somewhere between 25% to 50% of it.
Because of how much footage there is for me to process, this one will probably take longer than my typical 6-week turnaround time for an hour-long video. I'm aiming for 7 weeks, but we'll have to see how things go.
AgtSpooky's footage already looked good and my attempts at upscaling it did not improve it, nor did I think it needed any color adjustments, so I just left it as-is. The only thing I did add was a mild stabilization. I use that on every video to help reduce some of the smaller jitters and shakes that are common in convention videos. It does make a pretty big difference, but you're not likely to notice it unless you watch the original vs modified videos side-by-side.
So these are just some screen shots from the portions of the video that were unique to AgtSpooky.
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 when possible 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.