Re: Archiving Recorded Regionals 2008
 

That device looks extremely promising, because it will record in 640x480 at a high bitrate that we can cut down later. Frankly, after the (no offense to whoever did it) abysmal audio and video quality of the Florida matches, I am excited to see things like this.

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I'm a little confused about parsing Quicktime files recorded in the h.264 format. I have been told that it is possible to do that without having to re-encode the video (a quite lengthy process...). Does anyone know how to do this? What do you use to create the individual video files?

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I am planning on using avidemux on linux. It looks like they also have a windows version, but I haven't used it.

I ran some tests yesterday and it was able to save a parsed H.264 file almost instantly, and it only took a few seconds to join 2 files.

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Thanks! That looks good, I will try it when I get home.

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My team (2231) will probably be able to webcast Israel regional.
I will give you a final answer on friday.

Re: Archiving Recorded Regionals 2008
 

Looks like in Week 3 we possibly got 8 out of the 10 regionals covered. To everyone who recorded a regional, please contact me if you have any questions about uploading raw footage ect. Most importantly if you do plan on uploading raw footage create a new post in The Blue Alliance Forums telling us so we can arrange for the parsing of that video.

Next week looks like we have every regional covered but Oklahoma City Regional, so if there is anyone out there going to Oklahoma and is willing to record the video please do so.

We are still looking for a couple people to record week 5 regionals, if you would like to (or are allready planning on) recording one of those regionals please speak up!

We are doing a great job so far, but we need to see more of that rocorded video up on the TBA and SOAP servers fully parsed, so get that raw footage somewhere we can use it and if you are willing to parse any video please check out The Blue Alliance forums.

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Hi!

Johnathan - Were you able to find Finals of VCU on the SOAP server?

Thanks,

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I just got high-speed (7MBps) internet up today, and Linux running, so I should be able to start parsing videos after our regional.

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Yep, 1261 was able to record Peachtree (week 3) digitally. Tanner's the one who actually recorded it, not me :P Unfortunately, Saturday has no audio...
We also saw 343 recording with good old VHS tapes. Need to drop them a note and ask if they got audio Saturday...

We are also planning on recording Palmetto (week 5), as far as I know, but that's not definite yet (since we have a reduced showing and all that).

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I'm having some problems with poor sound quality on the video I recorded at Chesapeake. The audio is low-ish and there is a loud buzzing in the background (some research shows that that usually indicates that the mult-box wasn't grounded).

Any ideas? Should I try to salvage the audio (ie, remove the buzzing noise)? Or just split everything up without doing anything to the audio?

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post a test video so we can see how one of the matches sound.

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It depends on the source of the buzz and what software you have available. Final Cut Pro (and most decent video editing software, I assume) can pretty easily edit out 60Hz hum of mains power being run through a bad place (ground loops, conductors too close to sensitive parts of the recording device, etc). If that doesn't work (assuming the announcer is louder than the hum), you could try an expansion filter of some sort to make the hum quieter in relation to the announcer. If you try an expansion approach, be prepared to mess with filter settings a bit to keep from getting really funky effects.

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Guys, there's a big chance that we might be able to archive the Israel Regional (might be available thanks to Or Makbiliy from FLL team 33 from Herzliya, Israel).
Tommorow me and him are gonna' test the webcasting over there and if everything is fine, we should have all matches recoreded and uploaded up to an hour after they happen (maybe even less)

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If everyone can handle video that had to go through WMV through first-time recording error, someone e-mail me with upload instructions, and I can start uploading tomorrow once I get all the clips out of WMM2. I didn't bother including penalty readings or match results, but I have the videos of those (mixed up with introductions of each team for the following match-- didn't want to take forever watching vids in real-time for clipping). If anyone minds where I cut, speak now, and wait a few weeks.

I effectively don't have the first day of qualifications, accidentally recorded with the volume too high, so it'll sound horrible no matter what I do. If you guys still want it, I might be able to trim those up next saturday, but I have yet to cut up the elimination matches. I don't have the awards, and I'm skipping Opening Ceremonies/Awards unless there is a *really* high demand for those.

EDIT: Oh, look... I just found a way to get the original out of Indeo codec without using WMM2... ok, that set everything back a while. If you still want the WMV-corrupted versions, fine, but otherwise, I'm holding off.

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We could just remove the audio and then people can still watch the matches?