[Deetman]

Thanks everyone for your input so far. Addressing a few common items:

• Scoring overlay from FMS will be present. I (and others) view this as a requirement.
• We don't run any lighting or projector rigging at all but one of our events. As a result, we are limited to ~10ft from a tripod mount. We may be able to mount 1 camera from the ceiling at a few venues but that complicates setup significantly.
• The portcullis and drawbridge will definitely impact visibility. Trying to keep this in mind but may be unavoidable.
• A camera behind/on the tower may be interesting, but difficult to place. We cannot interfere with the teams behind the wall and mounting on/around the tower cannot interfere with the game or FIRST intentions.
  

Originally Posted by dellagd

First, thank you so much for planning this stuff out! I can't wait to watch the MAR (FMA?) webcasts this year.

Thanks! The extremely positive feedback from last year made purchasing a second set of equipment this year an easy sell to the MAR/FMA board of directors. I haven't heard anything official on the new acronym, but FMA seems reasonable.

Originally Posted by dellagd

Kinda off topic, but would it be possible to run the webcast from a different feed than the one shown at the events? It's really nice to get the shifting camera views when watching the projector at events, but when watching a webcast, a moving camera view leaving out parts of the field while the match is in play is honestly really frustrating. MAR may not even have the equipment to do this, but running that non-changing feed through just to the webcast (with FMS overlay) and the standard switching one to the projector at events would be so awesome. They could even be the same feed when not in a match, but just do different things when a match starts.

I actually experimented with this a few hours ago. Technically, we already have the equipment to put just the static full field view on the webcast, but unfortunately it would lose the FMS scoring overlay. YouTube does allow multiple camera views during a live event, but this would require a different capture card in our system. More importantly, this would stress our encoding computer and venue bandwidth more than I am comfortable with. The instructions for the person manning the switching controls are to stay primarily on the full field view and I felt like they did a pretty good job last year (example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=--JiLScl-4I&list=PLIIiligkELGOb9JhVqkEBjhVbzavPNJfP&index=1 3)