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Originally Posted by AdamHeard
It's easy to complain that video is missing, and that someone else should do it (and it'd be awful darn nice if FIRST did it!), but this just falls on teams currently.
If video is important to the community, TEAMS need to film!
We filmed every event last year in 1080p (fixed, mid-field camera), we didn't upload our regionals to youtube as other teams already beat us with slightly better camera angles and every single match. We did upload our division though.
Youtube is so simple to use and dump 150 videos onto now, it really should be the standard for sharing FRC video. I already know TBA is starting to (or already has) embraced it.
973 will be filming all our events again next year, and uploading when necessary.
TBA is entirely volunteer run, they don't HAVE to do anything, and they don't OWE anyone anything; if this is an important issue to you, make an effort to help.
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I can't agree with Adam more. If we want more videos we need to step it up. In the fall of 2007 I stumbled upon thebluealliance.net just before I joined my FRC team and gobbled up as much information as I could. I did the same in the fall of 2008 and I keep pointing new students to TBA along with teams to research or specific matches. Match videos aren't just great memories to relive they are great scouting and learning tools as well!
Since 2008 the number of vidoes has continued to drop. If we want to see more videos online there is no reason we can't get a majority of regionals and all divisions covered. Last year I got a Pinnacle recorder to record the field footage and covered CT. I still have the footage on my computer and I need to split them up but college takes up too much time so I'll probably pass it along to some media students.
The easiest way to record events and what our team will do for the events we attend is a tripod+camera. You can stop/start the video to remove the tedious process of splitting videos and you can download/name your videos throughout the weekend.
Ask around on your team I'm sure most if not all teams have a camera they can use for this!
If anyone wants to use my Pinnacle I'd be happy to ship it to you to cover a regional or division. Its really easy and once the video is collected finding someone to split the videos will be easy.
3467 is already covering the Granite State Regional and The Pine Tree Regional for 2013.