#vancon 2009

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I have another new video up. Almost all the original footage came from the video AgtSpooky sent me, including the audio. I don't think her video was on YouTube before and it has much better coverage than the other videos on YouTube. Thanks to her angle, she consistently has Jared and Jensen in the same frame, whereas the other videos often don't. The energy always feels off to me when I can't see both of them reacting to what each other says, so her video made me super happy.

I also used a few bits and pieces from another video, adding up to about a minute and a half, as credited in my video description.

They ran out of time for a solo Jared panel at this convention, so this is my last VANCON 2009 video. I've started working on CHICON 2009. That was the next convention they attended, 2.5 months later.

Before/after comparison photo...

Click and/or zoom in if you can. The difference in detail is more noticeable at larger sizes. I think this video had my clearest, sharpest upscale results yet and it should be really noticeable for those of you who are able to watch on a larger screen.

Sadly, my next video will look a million times worse because it took place in the Dreaded Chicago Breakfast Room which seems to wreak havoc on all video cameras. After weeks of staring at the beauty of this video, the next one is making me want to claw my eyes out! The main panel will be better though.

A recap for anyone not familiar with this project…

In December 2023, I started this project to enhance old convention videos. I'm upscaling the videos and making other visual improvements, adding extra content to clarify various references, and adding good color-coded subtitles so you can better understand the sometimes-chaotic audio.

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.

Like, if you only have the newer J2 content to reference, I know it might seem hard to imagine that there could have ever been a ‘lesser chill,’ but let me tell you...

For example-

While the Js were pondering a question about the biggest misconceptions people have of the two of them, some fans yelled out-

“-that you LIKE each other??”

(giggle giggle, says Jared while Jensen freezes up like an actual deer in the headlights)

And-

“-that you’re married??”

(LOL look at Jared’s ‘well...you’re not wrong’ expression 😄)

And sure, the Js tried (kind of? maybe? I’m not really sure??) to deny it for like half a millisecond, but A. there was entirely too much blushing and squirming for it to be even the tiniest bit believable, and B. it then ended up taking a sharp turn into all of this-

Jared: “I don’t think that’s actually a misconception...”

Jensen (awkward hand movements): “It’s not a misconception. It’s...conceptualization...”

Huh???

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I have a new video up. Most of the original footage came from the video AgtSpooky sent me and I don't think it was on YouTube before. It has much better coverage than what's on YouTube today, especially during the second half when Jensen stood up and started moving around. This was one of the videos that drove me to write my crazy Ode to AgtSpooky. 🤣

I also used a few bits and pieces of video from other sources adding up to a little under 3 minutes in total, and I used a different source for almost all the audio because it sounded just slightly clearer to my ears. These sources are all credited in my video description.

I've started working on my next video which will be the main J2 panel. They ran out of time for Jared's solo panel, so the next video will be my last from this con.

Before/after comparison photo...

Click and/or zoom in to enlarge and get the full impact of the improvement.

A recap for anyone not familiar with this project…

In December 2023, I started this project to enhance old convention videos. I'm upscaling the videos and making other visual improvements, adding extra content to clarify various references, and adding good color-coded subtitles so you can better understand the sometimes-chaotic audio.

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.

Direct link to video. Link to YouTube channel. (10 videos available.)

My newest video is now up, kicking off the VANCON 2009 series of videos with Jared, Jensen, and Jim at the Breakfast panel. Both available videos were taken from extreme opposite angles, so I cut between them to hopefully present the best view possible based on where they were facing.

The video I received from AgtSpooky had already found its way onto YouTube (but wasn't properly credited), so there won't be any new coverage here that most people haven't seen already. However, her video upscaled very nicely and looks much improved in this version. I also hope cutting between the two angles will reduce the frustration that many of us probably felt when we watched the original videos and kept seeing the backs of their heads.

AgtSpooky's videos for the main panels have not made it onto YouTube as far as I could find, so my next two videos should have some coverage from an angle that newer fans haven't seen. Jensen's solo panel will be next up.

Before/after comparison photos...

Click and/or zoom in to enlarge and get the full impact of the improvement.

A recap for anyone not familiar with this project…

In December 2023, I started this project to enhance old convention videos. I'm upscaling the videos and making other visual improvements, adding extra content to clarify various references, and adding good color-coded subtitles so you can better understand the sometimes-chaotic audio.

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.

Hi! This short sample is from the VANCON 2009 breakfast. The full video should go up on my YouTube channel this Friday around 3pm EST. I'll post it on Tumblr next Tuesday evening.

This was an interesting one to edit together! I had two main sources, and both of them were video taped from extreme opposite angles. 😅 The video AgtSpooky sent me is the one taken from Jim's side, so that one upscaled the best since I had her original files. The other one from RsrvdMom on YouTube didn't upscale as well since I don't know how to contact her, but it was taken from Jensen's side. Sometimes I had to make some really difficult choices.

I cut between the two videos and tried very hard to pick the one with the best view of what was going on. Sometimes when it was impossible to see all of them clearly in one video, I added a little window into the other video along the side. (No more collapsing bubbles for me after the Comic-Con 2008 video! It's windows from now on. 🤣)

I wanted to post a small sample to hopefully whet people's appetites for the full video. I picked this section because Jared's goofiness made me laugh, and because it illustrates some of what I was talking about with the video editing.