[TBA]: VCU Footage
 

I'm working on encoding the VCU footage, got the first couple matches done, who ever recorded it did it in a pretty large format so it may take a while to download encode and re-upload. I'm starting on the first day stuff (because most of it is up there), someone else can feel free to do the second day footage. Im using .mp4 h.264 1024 kb/s.

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Thanks for the update, I was getting a little worried about the lack of VCU videos online.

These videos will be on SOAP too, right?

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yea my upload speed is a bit slow at univeristy (i think they cap it), so its going on TBA first then i'll get it up on SOAP.

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I'll head to the internet cafe tomorrow and do Day 2 for you, although my laptop is not-even-funny-close to failing, so don't depend on me until it's safely encoded and online.

Although I think I'd need to find an h.264 encoder for Sony Vegas. I'll work on that...

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I see that the first VCU match has been put up on SOAP, but apparently SOAP's directory page only shows wmv files... They need to fix that. I found the first video by manually entering the link http://www.soap.circuitrunners.com/2.../va/va_001.mp4

I like how your video capture included everything seen by the rendering computer instead of just the NTSC sized frame of video, but the interlacing is pretty annoying (it is easily seen when the poles on moving robots become staggered, making it look fuzzy). Does the original video have that, or could you encode it progressive instead?

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the source video is interlaced, i'll work on de-interlacing it.

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Hi Guys!

Thanks for all your hard work! I recorded the VCU Regional, and for some werid reason (and I didn't get time to fix this problem) my video recording software didn't give me a choice of what format to record it in :rolleyes:

I have a whopping 32 GBs to upload!!! FIRST did not allow me to sit at the computer so that I could press the record/stop button.

What programs are you all using to cut and convert?

I am currently uploading matches 11-61 which is 10 Gb! My computer has been literally been uploading video for that last 24 hours!

BTW, don't expect Saturday's footage to go up before midnight tomorrow. Be assured that I am trying to upload video as fast as I can ;-)

Thanks,

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We have a 120GB disk. I am working to get it upgraded, but we currently have about 20 free GB. My plan is to take the high-resolution video from 2006 and 2007 offline, but leave up the web streamable copies.

We may run into an issue where the disk fills up. I am going to try to avoid this, but dropping a huge amount of video on the server would almost certain do it.

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K, I won't post day two untill you give me the green light.

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Post the elims, if you can. We're at 26GB free, which is a good chunk. Uncompressed video is killer though. Have you considered running it through SUPER or something else to compress it? It'd help with your upstream bandwidth issue too.

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Somebody else can take day two. I just had a major HDD crash.

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I have matches 1-10, 26,27,36-43 all cut up and mostly uploaded. so you can remove the raw footage of m1-m10 in Day 1.

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I am uploading all that through 40 right now.

m1-10 is deleted.

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K, I have started uploading the elims.

I haven't installed SUPER, yet. I can if you can tell me what format to use etc.

Thanks,

Also, I only have around 18 GB's left to post. Should I also post the award ceremony?


Also, what software are you all using to cut and clip matches?

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don't worry about the awards ceremony for TBA, SOAP may want it later, I'm on a mac so i'm encoding it to h.264 .mp4 files then cutting it up with a mixture of quicktime and iMovie, trying to move to final cut. Just try and focus on getting the elims up first.

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i've cut up matches 52-57, working on uploading them. I switched to editing them in final cut, so the wrapper is .mov now instead of .mp4. its still the same h.264 encoding and all.

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Changing wrappers poses no problem. Thanks!

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I got everything covered up to match 61 (thats everything thats been posted so far).

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Hi!

I tried uploading the quaterfinals three times, and each time it (filezilla) tells me that it has failed. Any ideas? Is there a limit to how much I can upload? If so, then Jonathan - Can you delete any of the files you do not need?

Thanks,

Anish

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I'll clean up what I've already converted, there shouldn't be a limit, maybe the HD is too full. I'm sure Greg will chime in and see what's up.

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Hi!

Thanks. I'm trying to upload the first matches of day 2, just to see if it will work. I still don't know why the quaterfinals are not uploading:confused:

Jonathan - Where are matches 11-37? Are you still posting them? Also, the file with the first matches of Day 2 is called "opening ceremony 2 + matches 62+" or something like that.

Thanks,

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yea i'm still cutting them up and uploading them.

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Hmm... I noticed that SOAP seems to have the videos that you have uploaded to TBA on it. Is somebody else doing that, or are the video downloads on TBA actually linked to SOAP?

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The downloads on TBA are not linked to SOAP. SOAP either got these uploaded by the same person who uploaded them to TBA, or downloaded and uploaded them themselves. Either way, having the video in more places is only a good thing.

I am not sure why your Filezilla uploads are failing. The disk is not full. I deleted the awards and opening ceremony videos, and we are at 73% disk space usage. There are gigs and gigs of unused space. I would say "try again?" but I have no idea what was wrong.

I am converting and will upload the quals Jonathan has uploaded. Thanks!

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I uploaded some of the video last night to SOAP, focusing on TBA but when i get a chance I'll throw as much as i can up on SOAP.

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Got all your most recent videos up to TBA.

Thanks!

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Hi,

For some reason, once again, I'm unable to upload videos to the blue alliance server. So, I'm uploading them to the SOAP server from where you can download it.

Also, does anyone know the contact info for the FIRST Video Archive people?

Thanks,

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This story about the Regional was written by the Hartford Courant. It might have been published in the paper this morning, but I am in rural Pennsylvania and can not confirm.

http://www.courant.com/business/hc-r...61,print.story

It is pretty well written, and makes the regional sound quite exciting!

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Hey! Great Article of the regional ;) Now, if only your mom could have mentioned to go the bluealliance.net for video:D

BTW - Jonathan, were you able to find the video I placed on the SOAP server?

Thanks,

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Hmm, that post totally went in the wrong thread, but it's all good.

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How's the video processing going? I noticed that SOAP now has a few matches that TBA is currently missing, which are 24, 30, 62, sf1m1, sf2m1, and fm3, but SOAP is also missing several that TBA has. Actually, why is final match 3 not even stated on the VCU page on TBA? It does exist...

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Fireftp / Firefox 2, XP, upon trying to upload an 85 mb file...
550-Quota exceeded: match33_08.flv won't be saved 550 30715544 Kbytes used (99%) - authorized: 30720000 Kb : /2008Peachtree/match33_08.flv

...I would think I am just trying to upload an absurdly large file, and the problem lies somewhere with my newbness. But some of the other directories have 1 GB files O.o (unless someone with different permissions uploaded them?) & there is a .ftpquota file in there... although it has no text whatsoever (so it shouldn't affect anything?), & thankfully CD appears rather kinda to noobs who are willing to learn =)

Well, as for lateness of Peachtree vids... Apparently "We'd love to, but we are n00bs in the whole recording thingy." I'm still not sure why we can't just upload whatever/everything we have... but I think I'm turning into an annoying bug :D and I have no access to the files so let's just say it might take a while.

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I increased the allotted quota for the FTP account to 50000 MB from 30000MB. I don't see where the 30000MB of stuff currently is, but this should let everyone toss more stuff up.

Sorry for that.

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/me is still wondering why the VCU archiving process has not been finished yet... Anybody out there to answer my question?

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I'm grabbing the massive amounts of video to finish up where Jonathan left off. I should be able to get it done before/during Atlanta (I'm stuck here at home :( )

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I will start checking the TBA pages daily again. :D I hope you are planning to do the awards videos for SOAP too once you are done with the matches, assuming you will get to that point.

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I have now parsed all of the large files that I found on the TBA FTP. I will finish uploading the rest of them when I get off WiFi and plug in to the internet tonight/tomorrow morning.

I currently see nothing in the SOAP VCU folder when I connect through the FTP, probably something to do with the server switch.

So for now TBA is still missing semifinals, finals match 1, match 1 of quarterfinals 1 and 2 , and quals 24 and 30 and 62 (I missed this one).
EDIT: I see quals 24, 30 and 62 on SOAP as well as semifinals. I can transfer these to TBA as well.

You mentioned awards, but I don't see raw video for them around anywhere.

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Uh oh... I don't know where these videos are so I wouldn't know if they are there or not. If they are truly not online, then maybe we can get the awards from DRH2o. Greg Marra seems to be getting them already though.

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TBA currently doesn't have a system to handle awards videos. If someone parses them out of the files with the rest of the video, then we can host the files, but I currently know of no one specifically parsing out awards.

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SOAP usually handles the awards. That is where I expect the awards to go. But that can't happen unless the raw footage has the awards. If the current raw footage does not have the awards, then we need the other person's raw video of them.