[Thad House]

Originally Posted by dag0620

The problem with that is in PNW, all of the A/V is done in house, and ran by volunteers. While I applaud PNW for doing that, and their webcasts (and on site A/V from what I have been told) has been phenomenal, it's impractical for FIRST to do that on a large scale. A/V will have to continue to be contracted for a least the near future, and with that people who aren't as knowledgeable about the game will be working the cameras.

As for the actual quality of the streams, (not the footage being shown on them), FIRST needs to look at what PNW did, as well as some of the other events that had spectacular streams. Since A/V is already producing the content, I see no reason why FIRST can't come up with an easy, quality, standard way of getting that content on to a quality live stream. As for WCMP, NASA should have a much better way of doing this already, it's embarrassing that it can't be figured out.

I don't know the exact cost of the AV equipment here in the PNW, but it has to cost less then contracting out.

We have 2 fields here, and each field has it's own AV setup. I helped setup the camera's at one event. There were 3 cameras that were wired into the AV desk, and then 1 wireless camera that could be carried around the field to give closer looks. Then there was all the equipment to hook this up to a computer and then to the internet. I'm sure that FIRST providing each field with good AV equipment would be much cheaper then contracting out the AV, and would look much better at the same time.