I've been keeping a close eye on this thread, but have been trying not to post too much on it.
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Originally Posted by George Nishimura
In general, I agree that having one, centralized community-driven storage of videos would be useful. So that videos won't get lost, and are easier to access for people who want to design portals that showcase those videos (similar to TBA). For example, a rather simple implementation would be to have one YouTube channel called 'FIRST videos' that anyone can upload to.
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One of the many reasons why TBA is amazing is the ability for uploaders to voluntarily submit their match videos for an event. They can do it both on the site and it's even easier to do so on
this Google Doc, all they have to do is provide the link for the playlist and someone else will take care of sorting all of it. These videos are still hosted on the uploader's channel so if a user clicks on one of the embedded videos, it goes straight to the uploader's video page.
EDIT: Also found that there is a
Facebook Group for coordinating TBA match footage as well.
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Originally Posted by George Nishimura
IIs there a particular reason why people who filmed/edited videos want to upload them? Do they get money from them? (I'm just trying to see what potential issues might arise from such a centralized solution, not attack anyone).
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One of the new awards last year was the
FRC New Media Award, which "
will recognize a team’s creative use of digital media and devices to create and distribute content that is used to promote the team’s profile, achievements, and outreach, along with the FIRST mission." 15% of the grading for this award is Engagement, with questions asked such as "
How did you track the results?". If you look at the winning submission last year from
Panteras, one of the main ways they did this was providing statistics of views on their YouTube Channel. However, if their footage is stolen from them and posted elsewhere, their recordable reach of their content will decrease. This could hurt a team that's in the running for this award.
And I also just want to put this out there: What if I go download all of WFN's footage and then post it on my own personal account somewhere, and start advertising it like crazy on Chief Delphi as "Robotics Videos Online". That would be perfectly fine under WFN's beliefs, correct? (assuming everything else is disregarded)
That's my $0.02 for now. I'll see if I can dig up any more change in my pockets later.