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30 PRODUCTION SOUND & VIDEO – Summer 2026 Finally, it was time for me to start. With just a couple of days of rehearsal for me, I quickly found two problems to solve: First, the video feed at video village had 5-6 frames of latency due the nature of the 8K capture using Sony Venice 2's, as well as all of the video processing and distribution that followed. Solution: Add 250m's delay to the audio signal I provide to video assist. Now everybody is watching in sync. Second, being in the same room as the concert meant that you couldn't easily hear via headphones. Applying delay was just part of the solution. Isolation was the other. For that, we got hold of "high noise" isolating headphones for the director, producer, and DP. Gregg Frazier was brought along as Boom Operator. Coincidentally, Gregg had been in attendance for the Victory Tour at Dodger Stadium and saw the show live in 1984. Amazing to have come full circle to be filming a recreation of that very concert! Another problem needed to be addressed. I had learned (from watching YouTube concert footage) that Michael had used a handheld wireless mic during the concert at Dodger Stadium. And while I had identified it as a Sony WRT-57, no working version of this mic could be sourced. There's a very dramatic moment during the concert where Michael makes The Jacksons during the Victory Tour filmed on Sony Stage 27. Boom Operator Gregg Frazier at work wearing a silver glove, an homage to the King of Pop.