The filmer of this show was kind enough to lend me his master Hi-8mm video tape for the conversion to DVD. The camera was handheld, and due to the distance from the stage, and the fact that full optical zoom was used for much of the video, there is some shakiness. The filmer did a good job filming, in that he maintains focus on the subject for long periods of time, rather than jumping quickly from one area of the stage to another as inexperienced filmers tend to do. If not for the shakiness due the difficulty of filming a zoomed subject, this video would be excellent. Even with the slight shakiness, the video is quite nice, with nice colors, and clear focus. Also, the view is totally unobstructed, which is a big plus.

Audio is quite nice for an audience recording captured with stereo video camera mics. I normalized the two channels to even out the recording and boost the sound levels. I applied some EQ to bring out the best in the recording. I'd rate the audience audio as a solid B+. Unfortunately, the filmer began filming a bit late, so the first 2 minutes and 10 seconds of Holidays in Eden was not filmed. Even more unfortunately, the filmer was caught filming and made to stop part way through Cover My Eyes. Luckily, he was able to retain possession of his video tape, so we at least have 70 minutes of this show on video.

Selected songs from this show were broadcast on FM radio. Since this FM source sounded better than the audience video feed, I replaced the audience audio with the FM audio where it was available. I've notated the setlist above with which songs have FM audio. The FM audio was precisely synced with the audience source, so that it matches up perfectly with the video. I cross faded the audience and FM source transitions so that the switch from one source to another during the concert sounds smooth.

Rather than start the video abruptly partway through Holidays in Eden, I start the video beginning at the first of the song (using the FM source), and using screen captures from another part of the video to appear on screen for the first couple minutes until the video starts. I did he same thing with the end of the video, continuing with the FM feed until the end of Cover My Eyes, using screen captures for the final minute of that song, to make the video a little more complete.

Since there are some purists that would prefer to have the audience audio to listen to while they watch the video, I have included 2 soundtracks on this DVD. At the main menu, the viewer is presented with the option to choose to listen to either the audience feed, or the FM/audience mix.

One thing of interest when watching the concert with the FM audio, was that I realized that the FM broadcast must not have been broadcast live, as it contained overdubs. Two examples that come to mind are found at the end of Heart of Lothian, and during the chorus of Cover My Eyes. At these points, H holds the mic away from his body and signals for the audience to sing, and his mouth does not move. However, on the FM broadcast, you hear H singing these parts. If you check the audio that is sourced from the video tape, you hear that H did not sing these parts in concert, as you can only hear the audience.

In order to fit 2 separate audio tracks on this DVD, and still encode the video at a high bit ate, I encoded the audio tracks to Dolby Digital AC3 format, as is found on most commercial DVDs.

Finally, for those wondering about the title of this release, "Less is Like More" is a lyric taken from "The Party". The "less" denoting that the video is less than the full concert, and the "more" pointing out that the added FM source makes this video "more" than it was to begin with.

Thanks to "marilbil" for trusting me with his master video tape, and thus making a high quality copy of his video available to all.