The Year with no Archived Video
 

http://www.firstwiki.net/index.php/2010_Archiving

Three events currently have folks recording them.

I have only heard from a single group about Week 1 Regional recorded video.

At this rate, Breakaway will be the least-recorded FIRST game ever. :ahh:

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I will gladly volunteer to parse recorded video again this year, especially Week 2 events as I am on Spring Break, but someone has to record them first!

Also, 2175 is working on tracking down a second capture device to record 10k Lakes as well so that should be 4 events.

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So I take it this means there is no GSR footage?

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What it means is that no one has posted on CD or FIRSTWiki that they were planning on recording GSR. It doesn't necessarily mean nobody did record it.

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The only regional I have been contacted about is SDC. If anyone knows of GSR video we'll gladly host it, but it may not exist.

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I didn't see any devices connected to the recording station provided by lights and sound.

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I know of MOREnet's archive(Kansas City Regional): http://www.more.net/content/first-robotics
as well as a archive of the Oregon Regional: http://bpsepaa.com/video_2/main.php?...ected&event=15

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Any NJ Regional videos?

I *might* be able to stream/record the NYC Regional, although I don't think I have the proper equipment...

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Give me raw video and I can edit/encode it.

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Does anyone know how to contact the Bellarmine Prep Robotics Alumni Association to ask for permission to use their video of the Oregon regional?

I've contacted MOREnet about their Kansas City video.

Thanks all!

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Due to "technical difficulties" aka they forgot the av splitter multiplier amplifier to allow connection to the video feed I did not get to record the traverse city district competition. The guy running the video equipment promises it will be on ftp location this week.

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I know a few students on 360. I'll see if they can get the permission so that TBA can put the vids up on their site.

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Willing to parse anything people can get me files of. I'm on spring break with nothing to do :)

I can get on Kansas City and have it all parsed if they say "yes".

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I hope to be shooting for the local news the Waterloo regional and the GTR regional but once the stuff for the news is shot I can shoot a fair bit of b-rolll of everything from the pits to the stands to some of the action on the field as I have done in previous years and have it for those who want it, last year I used team 781's FTP server to upload the files.

It's not every match but it's something at least........

I haven't really figured out what I am doing this year yet but then again in news I think we figure everything out in five minutes to deadline and just do it :)

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I'll be recording Pittsburg and GTR this year, I may be able to record Saturday of Waterloo also. Sorry I haven't been able to push for more recordings like previous years, helping to run a team while in 3rd year of my Mechanical Engineering degree can keep one busy... Hopefully someone can step up and help organize the recording/parsing efforts.

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I may be able to hook up one of those pinnacle devices and a external drive for the whole thing as well if needed to record the production company feed, I am not sure how all that works as I've never used that equipment but I'm sure I can figure it out, when I am shooting with my news camera I don't record every match, I look for action shots all over the place as I wander around in the pits, stands and field and just shoot on and off and of course a lot of the cheering and stuff that goes on in the stands.

I'm assuming with the pinnacle device you take in composite video and mic level audio and connect a 1TB hard drive and it just records it all as one file if you leave it running all day?

I've never really played with that stuff so I don't know, I'm also assuming AC power is needed?

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I will once again be recording the Wisconsin Regional this year. I may need help with the parsing...silly job gets in the way of these important things!

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I can definitely help parse Wisconsin as I'll be on Spring Break next week and have a vested interest in getting that footage done ;)

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I know our film crew recorded a lot of footage ( unfortunately mostly our matches ).

However I am not sure they are allowed to release it as the footage is owned by the University and the are in the process of selling it to the ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corporation). I'll talk to them about trying to release it.

Thanks,
timytamy

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Anyone have any footage of FLR? I'd love to at least see the finals.

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NJ was recorded. Havent had time to go through it yet but it is here

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Do you have it? Can you PM me? I will send you FTP information and we can have other people chop it into matches :-)

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Yes, I, too, would absolutely love some footage of NJ. It holds just a small amount of sentimental value to me ;). Please send me a PM when info is parsed.

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I'd be happy to be one of those other people. Send me a PM if you want helping editing/encoding anything.

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360 also has video from last year of Oregon and Seattle. Might as well try to get permission for those too.

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Yes, AC power is needed (and supplied on the AV table) for the Pinnacle Video Transfer.

You have to be careful, though, in leaving it unattended (see that happened to us last year) as there's a limit on how big (or long, or something else, I don't know) the file can be.

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Id like to help parse it as well, if I can!

Did you record the alliance selection as well? I'd be interested in seeing it.

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I really want some NJ vids, really sentimental value

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It's probably hitting the 4GB file size cap of FAT32 formatted disks. Just make sure to stop and restart it (although I can't tell you how often).

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I'll echo the offers to help with post-recording production.

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If you want specifics, I'll do day 3 :D

My team wants to see the vids up on TBA really bad.

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I will be able to record everyday at Waterloo with my pinnacle video transfer and a 500GB hard drive. Also the PVT should only record up to 4GB on a FAT32 disk or up to 1GB on a FAT16 disk, once these limits are reached the device should create a new file and it will keep recording

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I thought that, too, but the recording stops at about 3.2 GB (roughly six hours on the medium quality setting), so it's probably something else.

If anyone feels like recording six hours of anything so we can be sure...

After discovering this issue last year, what I did was pause during lunch break, which gave us plenty of time (be sure to wait 'till alliance selections on Saturday!).

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I'll echo the request for parsing of the NJ video due to sentimental value. Having video of your first regional win would definitely be a very good thing...

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Amanda's dependable, give her time to catch her breath.

Amanda: Upload those files as soon as you can, let others chop it up into matches. All of us are (figuratively) chomping at the bit here... :)

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I have a mentor doing it while he is supposed to be at work lol. He is working on it cause he is the one who did it. I think he will have it done soon and if it is not done by the end of the week I will start bugging him about it :)

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We have KC recorded and are downloading it to the PC now to parse. Let me know if you need it sent or if you can get it from www.more.net. We may take a week or longer to get it up though.
We will also be recording the STL regional next weekend. We can parse and post it as well.

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If you recorded awards that would be appreciated, too. Thanks!

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anyone have any video of the nj regoinal? our robot did a successful flip, and we wanted video of that match, but it is nowhere to be found :(

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I am pretty sure we have the rewards recorded too not sure though I will ask and give you an abolute answer as soon as possible

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Does anyone know if CodeRed got the video from both the Michigan districts??the Kettering video would be awesome to have..

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I recorded raw video (no compression applied) for most of the D.C. regionals, but probably won't have time to chop it up for several weeks (in case anyone's interested). It's in 2 gig pieces (10 minutes each, I forgot to switch from FAT32 to something better), and totals something like 150GB - if anyone's interested in a compressed version, I could send it to them.

I plan to do the same thing at N.C.

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Here's video of Final Matches 2 and 3 to hold you over:

Finals Match 2

Finals Match 3

I'd like to thank the people who recorded the New Jersey Regional, it was 816's first adventure to the Finals and the Video would be awesome to have.

Not to mention someone better get Mr. Gregory some Video of his WFFA win. ;)

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Thanks Dustin! I almost like your video better... it shows the entire field all the time as opposed to focusing on single robots. So yes, this should tide me over for a while :D.

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It's not mine, I'm not sure who posted it up to Youtube, it may have been someone from 2016...

But you're welcome, if I stumble on anything else before stuff is up to TBA I'll let you know.

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mFnBwdb8mDM

not sure what match it is, but it was taken by my parents...

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I realize that what's transmitted in the webcasts is hardly the raw output that is most desirable, but if there were a way to easily record footage off the webcasts I think the number of regionals being archived would greatly increase. As I'm unable to physically attend any regionals this year, I can't help record in the traditional manner. But if recording off the webcasts is a viable option, then I'd volunteer to help record and parse.

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Recording off a webcast is possible but not optimal, you are limited to the quality and glitches of the webcast. All it takes is VLC player. PM me if anyone wants further instructions.

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I have recorded a 10 hour event before with a single file size of ~150GB with no problems using a Newtek Tricaster Pro

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Code Red did not record anything they streamed. At traverse city the AV crew wouldn't allow anyone else to hook in and record the matches. The AV guy was "afraid to lose signal quality" even though it was only going to 2 separate outputs, to code red's streaming box and the main projector. He recorded on his device which had all the inputs and outputs run through it, I dont know what it was but looks kinda cool.

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What is the video quality like off those Pinnacle video transfer units? and the file size in H:264, for example 5 minutes of video on the highest quality settings would be what file size?

I might pick one up this weekend to experiment with, I guess is only has composite input though and no firewire?

mark

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Video quality is pretty decent, I'd say as good as it gets with a composite output. The highest quality outputs interlaced video and, in my opinion, is only marginally better than the intermediate setting - and because of that, medium quality is what I use for all my recordings.

As for size, this week I recorded one hour and forty five minutes of a Brazil vs. Netherlands match in the '74 World Cup and the file came out slightly smaller than 1 GB. :)

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Thanks for that link. Now I see exactly when a ball went over the red alliance wall without hitting the ball return counter, just after when George (the announcer) says "just over a minute left".

THAT's why we got 14 points in penalties...:(

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Based on that file size I think I might just pick up one of these Pinnacle devices this weekend and experiment with it and see what it can do, too bad it doesn't take firewire input as well.

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I'm responsible for running video production at the WPI regional. I'm logging the program output to raw DV, so the footage for the entire event will likely total ~350 GB. I don't have the time to cut it up, and at that size, it's impractical to upload to an FTP server, but I'd gladly pass off a copy to someone willing to make the trek to Worcester. Just shoot me a PM if you're interested.

--Dan Praetorius

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How fast can you make copies? ;)

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Is there any word of NJ footage yet? And anything about the awards?

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So there was no video feed at Pittsburgh, likely due to it being a 2-day budget regional so I wasn't able to record it. I am trying to get the raw UStream feed from the folks who ran the webcast.

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Here's a better quality version of NJ Final Match 2, taken from a different angle:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j4osAnrH0Qs&fmt=22

(Not taken by me, BTW)

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do any of you smart people know where florida video can be found? even just raw footage would be great :D

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I have ~4 hours recorded of the Florida webcast (Friday). PM me if you want it (and have a place where I can upload it). Currently I do not have time to cut it up myself. I also have a screen recording of most of Saturday of Pittsburgh (no audio though).

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Two events online now:

• http://thebluealliance.net/tbatv/event/2010sdc
• http://thebluealliance.net/tbatv/event/2010kc

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Any chance at getting some video from NYC?

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Any word on the NJ videos?

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I just got back from the first day at Waterloo. When i asked if i could record the video feed i was told that they had not allotted for that, i guess it was cheaper that way but i am disappointed that i wont have any video recorded.

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Does anybody know if it's possible to record off Ustream webcasts?

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Yes, kinda. The person broadcasting can click record when broadcasting and Ustream will save the video so that you can go back later and download the raw video.

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Tell them you are recording to put the video on the blue alliance online for everyone to view. This helped me in westmichigan when they thought I was just doing it for myself.

Speaking of which I should have westmichigan online in another couple days.

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I was told the same thing, not in the budget this year apparently, not even an audio pool feed and same might be the case at GTR.

My advice then to those filming from the stands is use a tripod no matter what and if you have a directional mic on some kind of pivoting mount so that it stays pointed at the speakers hanging from the ceiling and that should help a bit with the audio.

I miss the audio feed, I always plugged into it and set it to channel two in my camera/headset and had it up loud just so I could enjoy the music while I was there for the day extra loud.

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If they get the webcast working tomorrow we will have a recording of that, not perfect but it worked for Pittsburgh. I'm not sure what the deal will be for GTR, but my team is running the webcast and I will have a second AV feed for a recording.

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I should have specified that I meant download the webcast. Some of the MI districts are recorded and available for streaming on Ustream, but they're not worth much unless we can download the videos and cut them up. I suppose I could use a screen-capture program to download them that way, but the quality is so crappy that I'm not sure it's worth it.

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Just contact the team who did the Ustream broadcast, they will have access to download them. I'm sure they will send them to you.

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still no word from NJ?

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As posted elsewhere, mostly-complete ROC: http://normandy.hopto.org/videos/2010/roc/

I think these have been all- or mostly-posted on TBA, but re-sampled at a lower resolution.

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Wisconsin Regional is up on TBA now.

Good timing, I got to show my little cousin our quarterfinals matches. :)

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Can anyone help?

A student on 1676 has raw match footage from Virginia on disk, but just won't ever find the time to parse it. There are 3 or 4 matches missing (when the tapes ran out) but it's mostly complete. Taken from a good spot in the stands, only rarely is the field obscured by an errant spectator.

Does anyone have somewhere we can upload the raw video, thus allowing someone to parse it? As expected, it is several tens of GB. Upload bandwidth is not a problem.

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Does anyone have video of CT?

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TBA has room. I'll PM you.

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Thanks Greg. I'll make it happen as soon as I can.

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SHVEET! i was hoping video from our regional would eventually get up :p

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I know team 2337 will be working to supply TBA with our matches (if not all of the matches, were working on it) on our field from Nationals. We also supplied all but 3 of our matches from the State competition.

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*explosion of happiness*

Please tell me you have Qualification 95 on tape. That would be awesome! An unfortunate repercussion of being the trident operator is that you have a wall of people between you and the field and can't really see when your robot does something awesome like driving up Kilroy's ramp.

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I was talking with CTFIRST. 230 was filming the entire event. Remember how they got those instant replays? If anyone knows the best person to contact on that team, that'd be where I'd start.

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there are videos of palmetto on this page: http://www.clemson.edu/tlt/stream/frc/video.html

they are semi-parsed... but i did not put them up... nor do i know how to get them off... i just know of their existence :D

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I recorded the entire CT regional, but it'll take me some time to get all the matches parsed. If anyone can help, we might be able to do it a little faster. :)

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Can you get the un-parsed matches online? I can send you FTP information if you need space to put them so others can get at them. The community has been great about splitting video from other events.

PM me if you want FTP info :)

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No idea, but I can't imagine why we wouldn't. The only matches n=missing are those unfortunate to land when the tape needed to be replaced.

I see that at least one file has been FTP'd to TBA; I believe there would be a few of these, since this one is only 4GB and I was led to believe the whole set was a few tens of GB. In HD, by the way ... :)

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Were you able to get anything? :D