PNW District Highlight Videos
 

Students from the media teams of 2910, 1983, and our own 1318 have been coming together at all the district events to make the media content we deliver amazing. Every week, as our media lead insists, there will be a highlight video at the attended events showcasing all the action and fun of 2.5 days in 2.5 minutes. We have currently made one for Girls Generation 2013, Auburn Mountainview 2014, and Glacier Peak 2014. We will continue posting our highlight videos to this thread starting with Mount Vernon 2014 next week. Enjoy.

Girls Generation 2013:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FaSVlqpJKEs

Auburn Mountainview 2014:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkPPpvli15k

Glacier Peak 2014:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=foJrk7QKZIg

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Currently I see Glacier Peak to be the best so far. I have yet to get the formula down, but I have a basic idea for how each should be shot. The opening and closing shots are definite and I might add some tilt-shift shots for the next two. I also have to keep exposure the same throughout. A lot of those sped up shots were done in camera and that is why they look god awful. Other than those complaints from my end, I hope everyone enjoys them. :)

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Still so proud of the Glacier Peak one. Woodie Flowers asked for a copy of it after we showed it! :D

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Just wait, it is only going to get better as we go!

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Do you guys care to share your setup? Do you guys usually go in with a shot-list? Or just shoot a bit of everything?

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So far we have yet to go in with any idea of what we are going to do other than the opening shot from Auburn and Glacier Peak, so yeah shoot everything and pick the best. I shot the entire thing on my 60D with a Tokina 11-16 (spencer's), Canon 70-200 Mk II, Canon 24-105, and a 50 (spencer's). Most shots are done with a monopod (spencer's) upside down for stability. This setup got me almost every shot until I started to need fluid movement for which I got a tripod with a fluid head.

Shorewood will be killer because I will be brought 2 5D Mk IIIs, a steadicam, and a bigger plethora of lenses. I will try to put out all the best shots in a compilation for the public on public domain, because I love giving away footage so that way I don't have to see cellphone footage everywhere :)

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On the software side, we're doing everything in premiere pro and exporting 1080 at (I believe) 29.97 fps.

We're still on trial version, but I'll be bringing along my laptop, which has the full version, but I'm too lazy to install the CC version, so CS6 will have to make do.

EDIT: I just noticed we forgot to mute the opening scene outside the doors. You can faintly hear a voice sped up in the background...

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Wow, that is a ton of gear. I have a pretty basic setup; Canon T4i w/ Canon 18-135, and a Samyang 14mm (Along with a steadicam). I'd die to have a 5D Mk II.

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I basically live for camera gear I can tell you that what you have is good enough to do everything I do. Any APS-C sized sensor, not Nikons though, can do what I did in my video. Go search up Magic Lantern because it is one of the greatest things for Canon SLRs. If you need some help feel free to PM me.

Don't lust for bodies, lust for lenses. Because lenses have the biggest impact on your stuff.

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Everything was exported at 29.97, but most of our stuff is shot in 24 with ML giving us exact FPS, so a lot of the footage is just slightly sped up, but not by much.

Either that or I switched half way through. I'm not actually sure.

EDIT: I've watched the video enough times to notice that noise. It is quite annoying. We will fix that next time.

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I'm sorry, but I have to fix this Spencer. There are just a few problems and I need to add to what you have listed.

"As Nikki hinted at, the gear we use is not all one person's. As an A/V team we work hard to assemble all the gear necessary to create the highest quality product. The gear is primarily provided by members from 2046 (mentor) ,1983 (students) ,and 1318 (students) but we also try to bring in special tools that we have access to when available. For example at Auburn Mountainview, we had a phantom high speed camera that was used for instant replays in the webcast. At Shoreline Week 4 and Auburn Week 5 we MAY get a MOVI M5 and we will definitely have all the gear Nikki specified along with some jibs, tripod setup with external recorders and monitors using a single 5D and a 16-35 f/2.8, and a full steadicam arm and vest system. A plan is currently in the works for for having a Line Cam set up at the PNW District Championship in Portland. The team has been doing a great job of tapping into whatever resources are available."

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2014 Mount Vernon Highlight Reel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9dhurymLo7k

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Mount Vernon Gear Pictures : http://imgur.com/a/USc35

Full Gear List: All gear is Canon made unless stated otherwise

Bodies: 6D, 7D, 60D, 40D

Lenses: Tokina 11-16mm 2.8 (2), 24mm 1.4 (1), 24-70 2.8 Mk 1 (1), 24-105mm 4.0 (1), 40mm 2.8 (1), 50mm 1.4, Flare Factory 58m 2.0, 70-200 2.8 IS Mk 1 (1), and my personal 70-200 2.8 IS Mk 2 (I love it so much) (1).

Support: Manfrotto 190 More Tripod, Manfrotto 054 Q5 Ball Head, Bogen-Manfrotto 3130 Fluid Head, Joby X Ball Head, Joby Gorilla Pod, Gitzo Carbon Fiber Monopod, Manfrotto Aluminum Monopod.

Other stuff: 20 Cans of soda. 50 candy wrappers, 2 computers, 4 SD cards, and 1 smack in the face to get ready to pull off something this stupid.

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2014 Shorewood Highlight Reel: http://youtu.be/VCmatTiC8co

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Because I would like to explain why this video is so much smoother in most parts of the video...

SHOREWOOD GEAR LIST:

most of the stuff listed above + this stuff below.

CMR Blackbird Stablizer
Steadicam Arm and Vest w/ Electronic Follow Focus
5D Mk III w/ 16-35 f/2.8L USM or 24-70 f/2.8L USM
SmallHD DP4 Monitor
and tons of Really Right Stuff clamps and L-Brackets and other stuff because Really Right Stuff is really right.

http://instagram.com/p/l31EG6A_M-/

Other stuff:
20 more cans of coke
SOO much candy
Healthy Breakfasts and Lunches
Young people with good backs
Mentors with tons of equipment.

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Don't forget about Fort Awards!

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LOL, I have photos that I'll post later. That was hilarious.

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You guys were awesome. Fort awards was pretty funny looking- for those of you wondering, this was what they had to do to hide the AV people during Awards because it could be seen from the audience behind them (two sided event).

This:

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You have been providing the best video feeds from any district or regional.
Keep up the great work you make the FIRST family proud.

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Thanks for posting this. I think I may have left a SD card somewhere or they were on one of our CF cards. If we look around we may find some photos of the crew working on awards with just the glow of the computer screens on their face. It was amazing how quickly we set that up.

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I think Nicolas has photos from inside the fort. You should ask him for them.

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I found them. ah the wonders of not realizing that everything is out of focus.

http://imgur.com/CavaeiS

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Wow. Just wow. As media lead for 1523 I can say that any one of those videos beats the productions FIRST puts on at champs and regionals. You do have some incredable gear as well that cant hurt. Im going to put our team to work on a South Florida Regional version. My current gear:
T3i
60d (i hope)
Sony dslr
2 gopros
Flycam nano
70-200 f2.8 L IS
28-135 f3.5-5.6 IS
14 f2.8
50 f1.4
Several mics
Misc mounting hardware and tripods.

Slightly jelous of the 5d, steadycam and 16-35 L.

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That 14 2.8 though. I don't actually own the 5D though. I own the 60D, 24-105, and the 70-200 mk II(beast lens that beats the older versions). The 16-35, imo and those of review sites, is not very good. Canon seriously can't make good wide angle lenses. Nikon's 14-24 is beast, but Nikon...

I can't wait to see how you guys take your own take on the idea of a FIRST Highlight Reel. We focus on people more than robots, but other videos I have seen give a more balanced video.

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Is there a video for Spokane?

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No, I am in Issaquah so there was no way for me to make it out to Spokane. Instead I got to go to Mt. Vernon.

I am one of the few that pushes for the highlight video to be made at each event. Others being Trevor (Snapshot), who helps me out as an editor whenever he isn't doing his work as Technical Director, and Jansen, a guy that sometimes comes as media coordinator. I wish I could go to every event or atleast have someone from my team be at every event to push something, anything, out there. I can't make it to Week 6 because I don't have a ride there and back, but I have yet to fail to put out a highlight reel for the events I have gone to. 4 done and 3 more to go. I'm including Worlds because I'm hopeful that my team will pull it off.

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2014 Auburn District Event: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bObJ...Gx0zZh8kaETJ9A

I had to edit this one by myself, so I'm not entirely happy with it. I will probably end up pick up the footage and re-editing it because our footage was absolutely beautiful, but there was such little time for me to edit that it was insane to go through 300 clips. Also I'm not a big fan of the music in this one. Too slow and doesn't pick up until near the end of the video.

Now for the reason for such amazing footage. My mentor got something this week that is absolutely killer. It beats steadicams for ease of use and consistency in steady footage. It is called the MOVI M5. If you would like to take a look at it full potential watch this: http://vimeo.com/63357898

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Will there be a highlight video for Central Washington?

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When will the highlight video from Portland be available?

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Actually, yes there is one. It was made by someone else. We were short on decent footage, though, so it's not too great. I'll see if I can upload it later.

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The video should be up by Tuesday.

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I talked to Kevin today and he said that all the computers were out and ready for me to access so I will definitely be able to get the video tomorrow.

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I would love to see it. I had assumed that no one tried to get anything since most of you had to work the livestream.

Next year I'm thinking we outfit a few people that are going to all different events with some decent DSLRs and steadicam rigs and we should be able to do some pretty good highlight reels at all events. :)

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This is the final highlight reel for the Official FIRST PNW season. Off-season events will get their own threads when they happen.

I believe without a doubt that this is the best highlight reel we could have made for an event this large. I had my wonderful video and audio editors (Conner and Trevor from FRC 2910, Jack in the Bot) help me out with this one.

I can't wait to see all the teams at St. Louis this coming week. I will be producing a highlight reel for the event on my own accord, no time to get myself a media pass, with most of it being pit and stands footage. I could get robots, but it wouldn't be close up.

Anyone know if they will let me walk around with roller blades and a full steadicam rig in the pits? :P

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PE-Y...Gx0zZh8kaETJ9A