xx.xx.1988
Outside Itīs America (Plus Extra's)
NTSC
PRO SHOT
1 DVD

01. Breakfast
02. Los Angeles, California
    (Where The Streets Have No Name video shoot)
03. Flying
04. Shoots
05. Rehearsals
06. Boots
07. Gila Bend, Arizona
08. Las Vegas, Nevada
    (I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For video)
09. Houston, Texas
10. In God's Country (video)
11. Governor Mecham & MLK
12. Spanish Eyes (video)
13. Into The Arms of America

Extras:
01. The New Voices of Freedom (MTV News segment)
02. I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For
    (with The New Voices of Freedom, Madison Square Garden,
    New York, 1987-09-28)
    Multi angle; soundtrack1: audience recording;
    soundtrack 2: soundboard recording from Rattle & Hum Outtakes
03. Review of Rattle & Hum feature film (from Film 88)
04. The Joshua Tree promo reel
05. Desire (video)

1988 documentary following U2 across the US during the Joshua Tree Tour

Release Notes:
I started this project after I downloaded the Outside It's America DVD on U2 Torrents. The DVD torrented had no menus and no chapter points, and had some nice extras (mainly the MTV News segment on The New Voices of Freedom), but the video quality of this segment was pretty bad. So I decided to re-author the DVD, including menus and chapters, and to clean up the video as much as I could.
I used my full VirtualDub arsenal on the MTV News clip, to remove noise, reduce color saturation, and reduce chroma bleeding and chroma shift. The resulting image, while far from perfect, is a big improvement over the original. I maintained the "Desire" video clip that was on that torrent, video quality was pretty good and I just applied some slight noise removal using VirtualDub.

Three new extras were added:
1. I Still haven't Found..., from the Rattle and Hum Outtakes. The video on that clip is a washed out black and white, I adjusted the black levels to make it more "vibrant". The
outtakes include two camera angles, so I made it a multi-angle track, you can select the angle using the ANGLE button on the DVD remote control. I also mixed the audio from the excellent audience recording from that gig; the sound is much fuller than the original SDB sound from the outtakes. The original sound is also included, as soundtrack #2.

2. Review of the Rattle and Hum feature film. I found this on the U2BloodRedSky hub. It was converted from PAL to NTSC using Canopus Procoder 2.

3. The Joshua Tree promo reel, also obtained on the U2BloodRedSky hub. Quality was pretty bad, and it was VCD resolution, so I used some noise reduction filters and did not try to blow it up to full DVD resolution.

WHen the project was all but done, I received a copy of the “Outside It's America, Outside It's Dublin" DVD. This one has menus and chapter points, and the video and sound quality are slightly better than the one I had. My main motivation fpr re-authoring the DVD was the lack of menus and chapters, but since I had already spent countless hours on the project, I decided to go ahead and release it, but used the footage from "Inside It's America, Outside It's Dublin" instead of the one torrented on U2Torrents. A slight amount of noise removal was applied using VirtualDub, but the video quality is pretty much the same (maybe a slight improvement).

The intro clip and animated menus were created with Sony Vegas and the DVD was authored with Sony DVD Producer 3.0.

DVD produced by Edu BH.