Re: [FRCTop25.com]- Premiere Night!
 

Way to kill the suspense...

Re: [FRCTop25.com]- Premiere Night!
 

I'm trying to follow the thread but got lost, what is this a response to Eric?

Re: [FRCTop25.com]- Premiere Night!
 

166 viewers half an hour before the set start time, impressive.

260 with 15 minutes to start.

WOW, 502 at show time, and still climbing.

Don't forget to record it for us poor souls missing the excitement live.

Re: [FRCTop25.com]- Premiere Night!
 

You're not missing much so far. They're having some technical difficulties. :(

Re: [FRCTop25.com]- Premiere Night!
 

So far, no worse than a week 1 regional.... :eek:

Re: [FRCTop25.com]- Premiere Night!
 

The chat was going crazy. I'd like to propose that the livestream chat be used for student chatter, and http://webchat.freenode.net/ (channel #FRC) for more serious analysis and discussion.

Takers?

Re: [FRCTop25.com]- Premiere Night!
 

Well, maybe this is because GKC last year to me was a haze of standing on the edge of our pit programming, and running back and forth to the practice field, but I don't remember it having quite this much technical difficulty.

Re: [FRCTop25.com]- Premiere Night!
 

Sorry guys, I was the one responsible for 1986's video. I must have uploaded the wrong version. Here's it on YouTube WITH audio: http://youtu.be/uKy-IKDq_6o

Re: [FRCTop25.com]- Premiere Night!
 

Anyone know if 16 has uploaded?

Re: [FRCTop25.com]- Premiere Night!
 

Thanks for the show, Mike and Justin!! It was great, looking forward to a lot of great bots this year.

Re: [FRCTop25.com]- Premiere Night!
 

Going on YouTube now. Probably be an hour or so. Don't wait up. :)

Re: [FRCTop25.com]- Premiere Night!
 

Thanks. We're attending both GKC and Razorback, so I gotta study your video as much as possible to figure out a way to beat it. :)

Re: [FRCTop25.com]- Premiere Night!
 

Thank you to everyone who tuned in! We had a blast. Don't forget to tune into our show this coming Wednesday before Week One Regionals!

The archive for this episode will be available on our livestream page at www.livestream.com/mikeandjustinitm momentarily.

Thanks again!

Re: [FRCTop25.com]- Premiere Night!
 

We were relieved to finally see a belly climber.

Hopefully we can see it in Lubbock...if the dust isn't blowing in our eyes.

Re: [FRCTop25.com]- Premiere Night!
 

16's video will be uploaded in just over 30 minutes. I will post it here, on the FRC-Designs.com thread, and in a new thread if you want to see a second encore!

-JTN

Re: [FRCTop25.com]- Premiere Night!
 

Thanks for a fantastic evening. I think you peaked at around 750 viewers.

Re: [FRCTop25.com]- Premiere Night!
 

We wanted to climb on the corner to leave the middle open for others, but it is very difficult. The video footage is not a good climb, obviously. We were missing some surgical tubing and had no automation - working on the controls. But we blew a gearbox right before bagging and didn't take time for more video.

And, yes, I have only been to Lubbock once and dust is what I recall.

Re: [FRCTop25.com]- Premiere Night!
 

If I may make a few suggestions for next year, I would like to suggest:

-Allow all submissions as you did this year; it's great for lesser known teams to be able to be shown to the whole community like this was.

-Keep random order with a couple superpowers at the end. The format was great for letting us see robots of teams we wouldn't have normally recognized by dangling the really good ones randomly. It was also pretty exciting wondering when our video would get pulled.

-Cap video length at 2 minutes. As amazing as the robots were, it gets rather fatiguing to watch video after video. The long videos got, honestly, boring and weren't fair to those who ended up being pushed back to very late at night.

-Define exactly what you want in a reveal video; keep build season footage to a minimum.

-Start earlier. We had a viewing party for it and had to miss the best of them because everyone's parents wanted them home by midnight.

Overall an excellent event and one you guys should absolutely do next year. FIRST should make a Release Video competition judged on videography and actually give a legitimate award for it.

Re: [FRCTop25.com]- Premiere Night!
 

Yes, yes, yes, AND YES!

Great suggestions. Thanks for participating! See you next weekend :)

Re: [FRCTop25.com]- Premiere Night!
 

I agree with Grim Tuesday with exception to the video length cap and video details. The video cap should be 3 minutes, as 2 minutes is sometimes too short to fit everything in. The video should have recommendations, but not an exact video guideline, as that ruins the variety seen in videos. Those are just some of my thoughts as the Bomb Squad's video producer.

-JTN

Re: [FRCTop25.com]- Premiere Night!
 

I definitely agree with this. Guidelines are better than caps and rules; if someone thinks they can make a better video not following the suggested lengths or topic matter then by all means they should be allowed. I always remember 33's Chairmans videos where they do little skits. It's completely unorthodox and they end up winning Chairmans without the classic informative/interview video. As 639's video producer, I much prefer the short and sweet style we and 340 did but it isn't fair to force it on everyone: see 118 this year.

That said, I think some sort of hard length cap might be required to keep the entire event engaging for all the teams taking part in it, especially if more come next year.

Re: [FRCTop25.com]- Premiere Night!
 

Had a great time watching while staying at work late. Thanks for doing this, certainly think its a cool thing for some teams to participate in, while other teams choose to release video throughout build season, which I also think is important.

I would like to offer a few suggestions

I would cap video length at 1:45 seconds, and specify that a maximum of 15 seconds are allowed to be pictures of video of something other than video of a moving robot. This can be epic introduction, pictures/video of the robot being built, credits, or thanking sponsors.

Randomize the the play list before the production begins, and keep the order secret. This will allow you to queue the next video without having to spend time to search for it.

Having a set play list and knowing whats coming up will also allow you to prepare what to say next, so you have a little time to prepare while the videos are playing.

Overrall great work, thanks for the entertainment

Re: [FRCTop25.com]- Premiere Night!
 

I think if we're watching a robot reveal video, it should feature the real robot at least once, and for more than 10 seconds at the end.

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http://youtu.be/ekZ1BR2rZsc

16's video.

Re: [FRCTop25.com]- Premiere Night!
 

Is the archive up yet?

Re: [FRCTop25.com]- Premiere Night!
 

No.

Re: [FRCTop25.com]- Premiere Night!
 

Hang with us. Livestream had a
some issues with a couple of the clips. Hopefully they'll get resolved soon and it'll be up tomorrow sometime! Thanks for
watching guys!

Re: [FRCTop25.com]- Premiere Night!
 

Still working on it.... 3 clips of 104 are giving me a hard time. Please be patient. :)

Re: [FRCTop25.com]- Premiere Night!
 

Yes, no rush. :) I'm just happy that most of the release videos will be in one central place.

Re: [FRCTop25.com]- Premiere Night!
 

Does anyone have the 25 and 103 reveal videos from last night?

Re: [FRCTop25.com]- Premiere Night!
 

103 and 25 will be releasing a new video next week. We put one together quick for the show and lets say the robots were missing a key part.

Re: [FRCTop25.com]- Premiere Night!
 

Oh boy...here comes a 30 pt climb.

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Hopefully that picture posted in the chat will be put into motion...;)

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Maybe.

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While you wait for the M&J archive, here's a YouTube playlist of robot reveal videos, courtesy of FRC-Designs.com:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XeoD3...njf En4l1LEjj

Submit your videos here:
http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/sh...d.php?t=114201

Re: [FRCTop25.com]- Premiere Night!
 

Yes, finally!

Thank you everyone for your patience! The stream is finally up! We had a few clip casualties though. 3 out of the 104 clips didn't make it, for reasons that are beyond our control (Livestream had some issues apparently that they can't fix). I'm not sure which exactly ones they are, but 101/104 clips isn't too bad huh? ;)
To get to the video... head on over to our page at http://www.livestream.com/mikeandjustinitm, and right under the main video box you'll see "Latest Videos" where the "Premiere Night" video is.

Thanks again for watching our show! It's something Justin and I won't ever forget! Can we get to 1000 viewers next year...?