Posted by Marc Martin on
URL: https://www.shado-forum.com/Antonia-Ellis-Interview-DVD-R-Now-Available-tp1504280p1504283.html

Hi Phil,

> The disc froze a couple of times

Yes, that happened once or twice on my DVD player as well,
but since that player sometimes freezes on commercial DVD's,
I didn't think I could draw any conclusions from that.

My feeling is that I probably have the bitrate set a
bit too high, or the DVD players are having a hard time
playing DVD-Rs with their bluish surface, instead of
a commercial DVD with a silver surface.

> Was that your wife going up to you to get you to
> speak into the mic? I thought that was pretty funny!

Yes, that's exactly what she was doing!! Even if you
were in the audience in San Diego, you wouldn't have
been able to hear me! Unfortunately, there wasn't
any slack in the microphone cable, so I couldn't
get the mic much closer to me, but after the 2nd
time my wife came up, I just started to lean over
to ask the questions!

And I actually made it easier to understand me compared
to the original videotape, by running the audio through
a dynamic range limiter, but there's only so much I
could do to fix that.

> I really enjoyed seeing you sitting there interviewing her

I look really happy to be there, don't I? :-) I didn't
realize that I had this huge grin on my face throughout
the entire interview...

> I also REALLY enjoyed the striptease. I thought, this is
> the early 1970's how good could this clip be and WOW! I
> think I have to buy Percy now!

Heh, heh... and I cut the clip before it became R-rated... :-)
I think Antonia was worried that I was going to show
the whole scene, but I never intended to do that.

> I'm surprised she hasn't done more conventions, she seems
> very relaxed and at ease in front of the crowd and speaks
> well of the show and has nice long answers to questions.

Yes, it didn't really require all the preparation I did
for the interview, because she just kept talking and talking,
often answering my next question before I had a chance to
ask it! (and no, she didn't know what my questions were
going to be -- I wanted the interview to be spontaneous)

> Next time you need to transfer video (8mm) maybe I could help
> and burn it onto a disc for you. You shouldn't have had to
> rent a camera for this.

Shawn shot the interview on Hi-8, and I really wanted to
preserve the original quality as much as possible, so I
rented a Digital-8 camcorder and downloaded the video
to my computer via Firewire in DV format. In DV format,
the hour interview was 12 GB, so there wasn't any way to
put that on a single disc!

> Oh, I almost forgot, my wife who knows about this stuff
> because she's married to me, was in the kitchen listening
> to interview and ended up watching it with me because she
> enjoyed Antonia so much.

Yes, she was a delightful person to spend the weekend with,
that's for sure!

Marc