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Originally Posted by Tom Line
Let me put this a different way. You would think mounting a go-pro on a pole and recording matches at an event would be fairly easy. Yet many regionals don't do it. Now take a step beyond that - it takes technical skills to turn that simple recording into a replay. Skills that 95% of folks that are volunteering at FIRST events don't have.
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That's because a lot of regionals don't already own the equipment and view it as lower priority in the grand scheme of things. If the equipment traveled with the field and was part of the venue setup, I think you'd quickly see high quality video recording at every event (and in turn high quality webcasts assuming they have internet access.)
If we can set up a full size FRC field and get all of that working with FMS, surely each event can handle setting up an additional laptop, a camera on a pole and running a few connections cables. A bit more work? Sure. But c'mon, not really. A 2-3 page setup tip sheet is all that would be needed.
Also - it really doesn't take any additional skill to 'turn that simple recording into a replay' - you just stop live recording and go open up the video file that was saved.
Question to the volunteer - 'Can you open a file on a PC?' Congratulations you have the job!