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Re: 2012 Lessons Learned:The Negative

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Originally Posted by Libby K View Post
I'm certainly not disagreeing with the need for better webcasts. My only question is... where is FIRST going to find the staff members to cover this? They're already stretched incredibly thin as it is...
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Originally Posted by thefro526 View Post
Doesn't FIRST Contract an AV Company for Non-District Events? Wouldn't it be as simple as asking them (and compensating them appropriately) to webcast and archive the event?

Breaking the video into individual matches would be a little more involved - but if it's something truly important to FIRST then it's probably worth hiring a person or two that manages these archived videos - even if they're only two to three month Temp employees for the competition season.

Our team has been archiving match videos in Michigan for 2 years now. We have each match uploaded to YouTube with in 5 minutes after the match is over. We also add tags to each match that has the team numbers (frc2337) that are playing in the match, as well as, an exact match tag (2012gl_qf4m2)

What we use to pull this off:
- 1 Person
- 1 Laptop
- Internet
- Video and Audio Feed

I feel that if a medium size team can do this at events they attend, FIRST should be able to pull this off even easier. FIRST has access to the FMS, internet, and Video Feeds allowing for them to automate the system even more. Also I think one of the 20 volunteers that guard the entrance to the pits, watching for people with out safety glasses, could easily perform this task.

If FIRST wants more people to see what we are doing, I think that archive all of the matches for all of the events on YouTube is a step in the right direction.

If anyone at FIRST would like to talk to use about how we archive matches we would be more then happy to share what we have learned.

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