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Originally Posted by Hallry
Not only this, but also webcast quality. All of the webcasts for the PNW events this year were extraordinarily better than the NASA streams at WCMP, and from what I heard, the PNW webcasts were all student-ran. FIRST should take a look at what PNW is doing and make that the standard for their streams, especially those at the prestigious World Championship. PNW camera operators also were familiar with the game and were able to focus in on the actual action, rather than simply zooming in to the part of the field where the most robots were, which is what FIRST told the WCMP operators to do. The WCMP also had a lot of weird camera angles, especially on Einstein. However, all of the divisions need improvement for their respective streams.
For comparison, here is a PNW match, and here is an Einstein match.
It also seems like PNW was able to cut up the match footage into the individual matches and upload them quite quickly, while last year, FIRST simply uploaded blocks of footage from WCMP, a few weeks after the event. |
Ok, so my initial post sucked because all my formatting didn't transfer from Word on my phone to CD's stupid editor and the content did not fit what I was trying to get across.
Basically, what I wanted to get across was that our system could work for FIRST since our equipment is honestly not too expensive. What we really need to do as a community is to have the other district model areas adopt PNW's style of presentation. This will allow for the A/V volunteers at all the district events to be able to transfer their abilities to WCMP. Which would give us a trained volunteer A/V Crew that has been doing the job for a while. This crew could take over the stream and make it so much better than it currently is.
The thing that bugs me is that we still see complaints from people when we are at World Level competition. I don't ever want to have to see this
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Originally Posted by Gregor
Yes, getting every event an HD webcast with cameramen who know where to point is a big task, but Einstein at the very least should have this, if not all the divisions...
Watching from home in 2012 and 2013 was pathetic, to be quite honest. I remember watching one qualification match in 2012 that 67 was in, but I couldn't actually tell which robot they were.
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kind of comment about the FIRST live steams in the digital age where I can take awesome video on my stills camera because it has the ability to resolve detail on an 18 MP sensor. Most broadcast cameras are capable of 1/120 @ f/2.8 or under with minimal noise and have lenses and sensors with equal resolution capabilities. We are a group of technologically capable people, but we can't get a good live stream going?
Also the way we got our videos up so fast was that we had a recorder that was separate from the stream running at the start of matches and then stopping at the point where the scores were shown. We then threw these on our closed loop server and got a person on a laptop to upload them to YouTube as we went through our day. It worked really well, but I would like to automate it for next year, because it is honestly just a tedious task that really just sucked.
I'm sorry for my rambling, I'm honestly not that great at making long-ish posts like this.