Ray Charles Orchestra
July 25, 1986
Toyohashi, Japan
-Black Heritage Festival-

with The Raelettes, The Ray Charles Orchestra directed by Clifford Solomon
and stage announcer Carl Hunter.

NTSC DVD - chaptered with setlist menu.
Not previously circulated from this source.

1. instrumental intro
2. Ray Charles intro
3. One Day Soon (IÕm Gonna Make A Million Dollars of My Own)
4. Busted
5. Georgia On My Mind
6. You Made Me Love You
7. How Long Has This Been Going On?
8. Feel So Bad
9. Raelettes intro
10. Shameless
11. (I Know) We're Gonna Make It
12. Then I'll Be Over You
13. > I CanÕt Stop Loving You
14. I Can See Clearly Now
15. I'm Gonna Keep Singing (WaitinÕ For My Change To Come)
16. What'd I Say
17. Ray Charles outro
18. encore: We Are The World
19. Ray Charles final outro & Orchestra finale
Total time: 61:32

Pro-shot video - does not look like it's from a TV broadcast (no credits or TV announcer, the video runs beyond the performance without audio, etc.) The video and audio quality are decent. A few minor video gremlins crop up but they are brief and virtually painless.

Transfer: Sony WV-DR7 > Sony DVMC-DA2 Media Converter (DV Hardware Codec Converter) > Final Cut Pro (capture & chaptering) > Compressor > DVD Studio Pro (menu & DVD authoring) > DVD

Audio post-capture processing in Pro Tools: Normalization and DC-offset removal. No noise reduction. Audio placed back into Final Cut Pro before Compressor downsampling.

Video: NTSC 720x480 VBR 7.7 Mbps peak, 6.2 Mbps average data rate, 2-pass.
Audio: Dolby Digital 2/0 (L,R), 48 kHz sample rate, 448 kbps data rate. Monophonic audio.