New Enhanced Edition - April 2008 EyeCon - Solo Jared Panel
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Here's my newest video! This was from the April 2008 EyeCon convention. There was another one in September 2008 that I plan to get to in the near future.
As I mentioned in my last post, there were 22 sources with 99(!) videos and a total of 6 hours' worth of footage. My final edit includes footage from 12 of those sources. Even if I didn't include them in my final edit, I listened to all the videos to try to get my subtitles as accurate as possible. The three sources that I used the most footage from are shown below and every source that ended up in my final edit is listed in my video description.
Subtitles
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
Thanks!
I also owe a huge thanks to @arwenadreamer here on Tumblr who so kindly answered a private message requesting German subtitling help for a section near the end of this video! This was one of my personal favorite parts of the video.
As always, much thanks is due to @kirathehyrulian for her awesome playlists. Her video-finding skills are incredible and her chronological sequencing of the video clips always saves me a lot of time on syncing up the footage because I don't have to start from scratch to figure out how all the little clips fit together. This is a big time saver on every video, but the amount of time it saved me in trying to sync up 99 different video clips from this particular panel was incalculable!
What's Next?
Next up is the June 2008 Dallas convention. Jensen had to cancel his appearance because he was filming My Bloody Valentine 3D, but Jared was able to attend. There will be two videos: a Brunch with both Jared and Jim Beaver and a Main Panel with just Jared.
The coverage from this convention isn't the greatest. There will be gaps and the video quality is pretty low, but I hope the final result will be more watchable than what we have available today.
For the brunch, I have 29.5 minutes' worth of the panel covered with one gap of unknown length about two-thirds in. I think the gap is pretty short, but I can't be certain.
For the main panel, I have exactly 54 minutes' worth of the panel covered with 5 gaps of unknown length. That includes a gap at the beginning before the first video starts, because Jared is already seated on stage and making general conversation with the fans before he opens it up for questions. I think 2 of the other gaps are very short and the other 2 definitely missed at least parts of the questions and answers.
So it could be worse, but a gap of any length always frustrates me! The fan reports I saw from this convention weren't very detailed or sequential, so I don't think I'll be able to fill in the gaps with any static images and notes like I did for Jared's solo LA 2008 video a few months ago.
Before/After Comparison Photos
The below source was used for about 50% of the video and 10% of the audio in my final edit.
The below source was used for about 25% of the video and 77% of the audio.
The below source was of particularly nice quality and was used for about 17% of the video and a little bit of the audio.
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 do anything to improve how they look, I'd happily send the updated files back to you for your own collection whether I use them or not.
