CHICON 2007 main J2 panel with Jared Padalecki and Jensen Ackles. This is a revised version of the video posted in February 2024. It has significantly better video quality. The source video is not my own; it was generously provided by AgtSpooky. The event took place on Sunday, November 11, 2007. I enhanced the original video as described below.

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ENHANCEMENTS
1. I ran an upscale and stabilization program to improve video quality and reduce shakiness. It isn't perfect; the source material was recorded with 2007 technology. However, it now looks significantly better than any other video of this event published to date.

2. I added some small and (mostly) subtle content to help explain pop culture references that viewers might not be familiar with and to refresh people's memories on specific episode references being discussed.

3. I added GOOD, color-coded subtitles, unlike the auto-generated atrocities most of these older videos have that don't even make sense. If you turn on the CC button, these sometimes chaotic videos will make a LOT more sense! If I wasn't confident about what they said, even if I thought I could guess based on context, I marked it as [inaudible] in the subtitles.
Red = Jared
Blue = Jensen
Green = Audience
Yellow = Fan at mic
White = Staff

VIDEO REFERENCE NOTES
1. The following link has more details about the con man. As noted at this link, Jared also mentioned it briefly in his essay in the book "Family Don't End with Blood". That's the only place I've seen either Jared or Jensen talk about this. www.supernaturalwiki.com/Kevin_Wise

2. The following link has the Variety interview with Jensen that one of the fans referred to. variety.com/2007/scene/people-news/jensen-ackles-1117973773/

VIDEO SOURCE REFERENCES
This video was generously provided to me directly from AgtSpooky who attended and recorded the event. This is why I released a revised version -- the original file upscaled so much better than the one I'd originally used from YouTube that my original enhanced video seemed embarrassingly bad by comparison.

I also used 31 seconds of the following video at the beginning. The quality is low and I couldn't get it to upscale, but we're lucky to have it because it's the only one I could find that covers this brief gap between the end of Jared's panel and the beginning of the J2 panel.
   • Jared and Jensen Q&A (2)  

ADDITIONAL CREDITS
The image of Jensen in Dark Angel came from here: images1.fanpop.com/images/photos/1200000/Dark-Angel-Promos-jensen-ackles-1279297-1000-670.jpg

The image of Jared in New York Minute came from here:
www.eonline.com/photos/27733/15-new-york-minute-secrets-revealed

The photo of Phil Sgriccia came from here: www.supernaturalwiki.com/Philip_Sgriccia

The images of Adam Malin and Gary Berman were extracted from this video:    • Gary Berman and Adam Malin  

The photo of Chris Schmelke came from here: www.supernaturalwiki.com/Interview_with_Creation_Photographer_Chris

The photo of Kim Manners and Serge Ladouceur came from here: theasc.com/articles/supernatural

The only reason I knew the first questioner after the "ceremony" said "midget mic" to put in the subtitles was because of her fan report here: cityphonelines.livejournal.com/2007/11/14/?rfrom=adis723

All screen shots and clips from the show were captured by me using my Blu-ray discs.

June 30, 2024: Several subtitle corrections were made with thanks to the transcript created by the following Tumblr blog: www.tumblr.com/j2spntranscripts.