Re: 2009 Greater Toronto Regional
 

The only description I can say is the date the videos where shot and the location (waterloo/GTR), the number at the start of the file denotes the date, since i was primarily shooting for the news I was shooting a little bit of everything.

I wish and believe me I could have shot more video, when I shot all this I was being conservative :)

Have to think and plan better for next year, perhaps plug a hard drive into the Audio/video feed from the production company and then also wander around the pits and stands and shoot the other stuff I suppose.

Thanks, wish I got compliments like that about the video I shot for work.......

Re: 2009 Greater Toronto Regional
 

Hey Mark and Malice,

A HUGE thank you to both of your for getting all this footage out to us. Mark you have some amazing stuff! Malice, I can't believe your site can handle all the downloading I did this weekend!
The Sprockets are in your debt.
Sincerely,
Adam

Re: 2009 Greater Toronto Regional
 

I will make a list of which teams are featured in which clips some time today while I upload the smaller-sized videos. I'll have plenty of time to do that too because it's a snowday today! (:

Re: 2009 Greater Toronto Regional
 

Yeah. SNOWDAY!

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Ohhh... I remember that 'dvsd' error... I forget how I fixed it... I think I had to download a codec or something... whatever. Thats some hosting you've got. I know I run a website for the Canadian Timing Association (we time race cars at Mosport, north of Bowmanville, ON, in the summer) I pay like $12CDN/mo for the hosting... Huh. Having just looked at it, it seems that I get Unltd Bandwidth and Disk Space. But I only used 2.5MB of bandwidth last month. :P

Re: 2009 Greater Toronto Regional
 

Wahaha, we've managed to use up 40GB of bandwidth currently this month. We too have unlimited bandwidth + disc space, so don't worry. (:

All the HQ videos are up at uploads.team781.com while the smaller sized video clips are at uploads.team781.com/small. You may need the DivX codec to play the small sized videos.

You can pause/resume downloads. I would recommend getting a download accelerator to download these videos since they're kinda big.

Here's what happens in each video so you don't download what you don't need. The first number is the date.

19 Waterloo 1
Around the pit

- 854 build
- 1141 working in the pit
- 1075 close ups of robot + cart
- 2166 robot modding

19 Waterloo 2
Near the field

- 2056 a bit of robot setup
- 781 robot load and setup
- 2609 robot setup
- 2056's robot was followed in the match with 2200, 781, 2056, and 2609

19 Waterloo 3
Walking around the pit and field, various glances and stuff

- a zoom in on a "We have the parts and we know how to use them" shirt
- people and robots at the 296, 781, 854, 1035, 1075, 1141 pit area

21 Waterloo 1
Matches, around the field, drivers, and the audience

- "Safety glasses required in pit at all times"
- 854 robot + robot modifications at the practice area
- 1334, 1404, 2013, 1565 pit area
- Karthik talking & glance at queue line
- 296, 2013, 2609, 2361 match... then loading + unloading robot
- 781, 1075, 1334, 2200 audience
- 1141, 854, 1815, 2935, 1310, 2702 match.. I think 854 ripped up a moonrock with their robot here
- 1075, 1305 audience
- 1565, 1404, 1075, 781, 1334, 2200 drivers
- 781 audience

26 Mississauga 1
Match between 188, 1305, 772, 781, 2056, 854

- 188, 1305, 772, 781, 2056, 854 match
- 781 human player (BRAAAAAAADDYYYYYY!!!!!)
- 188 robot

26 Mississauga 2
At the pit- construction work, teams, people, robots

- "Have you brought your Gracious Professionalism" sign
- 2634 and 2198 fixing their robot
- 2185 mascot dancing around
- 2013 pit.. and zoom on their awards
- 1605 robot work
- Lunacy volunteer working the Segway

26 Mississauga 3
At the pit and some clips from a match

- 1503 pit: working on the robot and their sign/banner
- people walking the shortcut from the pit to the field
- clips from the 188, 1305, 772, 781, 2056, 854 match

26 Mississauga 4
At the field: matches and the cheering section

- 2505, 1503 loading their robot
- I don't know the number.... but it's a human player with an orange cap. Really good at shooting!
- 1535 cheering
- 1312 audience
- man with flags on his safety glasses taking a video

27 Mississauga 1
At the field: matches, audience, cheering section

- human players
- 843, 1514, 610, 188, 1334, 1126, 2809, 2935, 1815 drivers
- 1535, 1815 human player
- 1514, 188, 1126 robot
- 1310, 2809, 1075 cheering/audience
- 1305 camera man
- Karthik talking ... hm.
- 854 mascot dancing

27 Mississauga 2
At the field: matches, audience, cheering section

- 781, 1006 robot
- 1846, 1114, 610, 1219, 2935, 188, 2013, 843, 1141 drivers
- 1224, 2809 human player
- Charles and the volunteers.. dancing and such
- 1310 cheering

27 Mississauga 3
At the field: matches, audience, cheering section

- 854, 677, 2056 robot
- 1114, 1075 audience/cheering/dancing
- 2076, 1312, 1244, 2386, 3117 drivers
- 1075 driver & driving coach... then turns to the cheering section witth 1075
- 610 camera man
- 854 human player
- Karthik

27 Mississauga 4
At the field: matches, audience, cheering section

- 2013, 1114 human player
- 1219, 1310 audience/cheering
- 188, 2076, 2505, 2809, 2634, 1503, 865, 2852, 2935 drivers
- 188, 1114, 1535, 2185, 2626, 2505 match.. more focused on 188
- 2056 robot
- 1547, 1075, 1305 doing the Macarena (:
- 1126 audience.. and their little dog plushie
- green bird mascot dancing around.. unknown team #?

27 Mississauga 5
Mainly the audience and the volunteers

- 1305, 188, 1535, 1075, 1547 YMCA
- various volunteers dancing or talking

28 Mississauga 1
Audience and the volunteers- all dancing clips

- 1075... dancing/cheering/doing the chicken dance (:
- 3 girls in black & red in the audience.. unknown team #?
- volunteers dancing around

28 Mississauga 2
Pit and robot inspection

- wandering around the pit... kinda looks like a convention!
- 2200, 1141, 781, 1126, 2013, 1305, 1310, 610, 1075, 1114, 188 were focused on

28 Mississauga 3
At the field: matches, audience, cheering section... KARTHIK WITH THE T-SHIRT CANNON!!!!

- Karthik & t-shirt cannon.. appears twice
- 1075 drivers & cart driver
- 772, 1075, 2809 audience/cheering
- 1310, 2505 drivers and coaches screaming about an empty cell
- Scores table
- 2935 drivers
- volunteer Steve with a camera
- 610, 2626, 1006, 2809, 1547, 2631 match clips

Phew.. Happy downloading! (:

Re: 2009 Greater Toronto Regional
 

I get an error when I try to watch these....any suggestions Holly?

Re: 2009 Greater Toronto Regional
 

I dunno. Try a DivX player? :/

Re: 2009 Greater Toronto Regional
 

Wow! That is one heck of a job shot-listing all my video especially considering that when I'm shooting for the news I have the attention span of a squirrel.

I'm out covering the snow and wind storm today for Global and TWN but I do have a few files from last years's GTR as well, other than 188's polar bear mascot I can't remember what's in them but I can send them up later this week.

Oh well we now have a nice 60-70k wind driving this snow so I better get back out there and play :)

Thanks again for making the videos available to everyone and shot-listing it all.

M

Re: 2009 Greater Toronto Regional
 

Ah! The downloads are rolling!

Just noticed that videos from GTR aren't up on TheBlueAlliance.net yet.. Anyone know when those will be up?

Re: 2009 Greater Toronto Regional
 

Well I have downloaded the codec and am now able to view them. The quality is exceptional, even in the small sized videos that I am viewing. Thanks so much Mark.

Re: 2009 Greater Toronto Regional
 

Thanks and maybe next year I'll make a point of filming every team's pit and on the field as well, I didn't realize there would be this much interest/demand for that video but I guess there is.

I have 15 files from 2008 GTR, I'm experimenting with converting those .avi's to .wmv's and we'll see what the quality is like. The file sizes will be smaller and if that doesn't work then I'll upload the .avi's.

I just dragged all 15 files onto the timeline and set it to convert to .wmv and it's telling me it will take four hours with my CPU at 100% and that's on My Asus G50V supercomputer.

The stuff I shot this year might also have had better technical quality as I have had applied three firmware upgrades to my Sony XDcam and now I can really see the difference over last year.

The firmware upgrades thought didn't do anything with regards to the weight of the camera or make the angle of the lens any wider though :)

A friend of mine who works at CP24 has one of those Canon HDV's, amazing camera for just a fraction of the cost of what I'm using.

m

Re: 2009 Greater Toronto Regional
 

Mark, thanks for all your efforts. The high quality footage is great, useful for promo videos. Most of the other videos 'online' are too low quality to be very useful. We appreciate your work and hope you continue to help the FIRST community out with your video skills!

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I uploaded the Saturday morning videos that we recorded this Monday, just a matter of TBA filing/linking to them. Did anyone else record Friday/Saturday afternoon? I can parse the videos if you have them!

Re: 2009 Greater Toronto Regional
 

I might have some of early saturday afternoon as filmed from the stands with my JVC everio. Its not really TBA quality though... (scoreboard and stuff)