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For those of you who have watched any of the Texas off-season webcasts last year, this is how we do it.

Broadcast FRC

This is about as cheap as you can get. It's based off the way the Enginerds have been doing the FiM broadcasts. Boils down to a laptop, gopro, and tall pole. Total cost is under $1000 to have the score overlay, audio, and everything. Here is an example of the stream. This was also used for the audience display as well at the event. This setup is intended for team use. We use the same setup to webcast FLL and VEX events. I would expect a regional or district to be able to spend a little more money, but if they can't this will work just fine.

Internet at regional venues is the worst part. For Lone Star last year I used a Clear hotspot, that I had lying around and just paid the $50 for the month of up time.

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I feel bad for being the only team mentioned by Citrus when we are only a small part of a much larger team. About 4-6 teams each week have students and mentors dedicate time to help make PNW live streams great. I think I'm just the only one that cares about the colors being accurate :P

I won't go into the video feed because of how complex/expensive it is, but internet is an easy one. Since we are in a district system most of our venues are high schools where we are given permission to hardwire ourselves to the internet.

This is obviously not possible for most regionals however. This means you will need to go with a system similar to what Allen linked. Clint and Allen have proven, with that guide, that teams can achieve cheap, effective live streams if they believe that it is worth it. The best part is that the team will have instant access to good match videos.

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For the MAR webcasts and in-venue video production this year, MAR purchased and assembled some new video equipment totaling around $6k when all is said and done. Unlike the PNW A/V crew, we don't have a dedicated group of volunteers to man this equipment so we have 3 static shots operated at the video switch by 1 operator to minimize volunteer requirements. This cuts down on overall production value, but allows us to use our limited volunteer resources better to suit the teams at the event in other roles while still providing a usable webcast. We're still working on improving a few things with our process, but overall the feedback has been positive.

I started putting together a whitepaper/user manual for the system before the events started, but ran out of time. I'll finish it up some time after 7 weeks of events and post it up here on ChiefDelphi. By no means do I expect individual teams to purchase such a system as it was built to handle some of our video needs at the events as well as stream to the internet.

Video production rack under construction:

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WOAH, so clean. Ours are not the cleanest from either side. I recognize everything on there except for that thing at the bottom. What is it?

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Thanks. The item at the bottom is just a connector patch panel so we don't have to go connecting onto the individual equipment in the rack. All connections to/from the rack go to this panel.

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It's amazing what this has done to the culture out here. A handful of teams have sub-teams of students who dedicate nearly all their competition season time to media exposure for the community. I honestly think this became an amazing rally point. It's certainly brought more students and teams closer together, because of these collaborations.

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Week #3:

REGIONALS

Week 2.5
Israel Regional (3/10 -3/12)
http://www.firstisrael.org.il/frc/page.asp?page=3545

Australia Regional
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCkd...sXlNda69U0g3VA (Thanks SteveGarward)

Greater Toronto East Regional
http://new.livestream.com/accounts/1...events/3856135

Los Angeles Regional
http://www.ustream.tv/channel/first-la-regional

Orlando Regional
http://science.ksc.nasa.gov/robotics/

Greater Kansas City Regional
http://www.twitch.tv/gkcregional01

Alamo Regional
http://alamo-first.org/node/142 (Thanks Mr Forbes)

Utah Regional
http://www.utfrc.utah.edu/live

New York City Regional
http://www.nycfirst.org/nycfirst-eve...-live-coverage


DISTRICT EVENTS

NE First:

UMass - Dartmouth
http://www.twitch.tv/nefirst_blue

Pine Tree Event
http://www.twitch.tv/nefirst_red

IN District:

Kokomo City of Firsts
http://new.livestream.com/FIRSTRobotics

FIRST in Michigan:

Woodhaven Event
http://www.twitch.tv/firstinmichigan1

Gull Lake Event
http://www.twitch.tv/firstinmichigan3

Traverse City Event
http://www.twitch.tv/firstinmichigan2


Mid-Atlantic Robotics

Springside Chestnut Hill
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4kJQNN7uMuc (FRI) (Thanks Kristian)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IDbS_lSxGBg (SAT)

PNW First (Thanks Metonym)
Mt. Vernon
http://ustream.tv/channel/PNWFIRST-blue
Wilsonville
http://ustream.tv/channel/PNWFIRST-red

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Alamo is supposed to be here...off line right now

http://alamo-first.org/node/142

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No PNW?

Mt. Vernon - ustream.tv/channel/PNWFIRST-blue

Wilsonville - ustream.tv/channel/PNWFIRST-red

blue stream = best stream

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you guys, and for that matter all A/V crew's working the matches for us to watch are just amazing, without you guys teams like us would have nothing to watch for strategy, gameplay, scouting, plain watching, etc. You guys deserve a huge thank you for all of your work. (loving the PNW streams, makes it so easy to show people who dont know about robotics to show what it is, and who we are.)

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Anyone have the Australia stream?

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I'm getting a drupal error on the whole website now. Anyone know anyone at Alamo so they can alert the RD that the whole website + webcast is down?

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Springside Chestnut Hill is a Friday/Saturday event. The links above are still correct for the first and second days of the competition.

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My secondhand contacts say things should be back up by noon today.

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Stream should be up here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCkd...sXlNda69U0g3VA

(Linked to from http://ausfirst.org/live)