[dhitchco]

More on video in general and closing ceremonies.

1) Yes, the CircuitRunners only recorded the actual matches, not the ceremonies.
2) FIRST does have a firm that can sell the video of the ceremonies, etc. There's a separate thread on that subject (same folder)
3) The folks from NASA were kind enough to send me a WMV file of our team winning the National Rookie All-Star award, since I was seated in the "nose bleed" seats and didn't have the foggiest notion that we would win (still high from all that!)

4) Now, if somebody has a video segment that they need converted to some other format (WMV to AVI or MPEG, etc) I did buy some good conversion s/w and would be willing to do that as a service free if needed; just e-mail me...you'd have to do this via a disk in snail-mail.

5) Now, a workaround. Most video editors can't import WMV files. But Microsoft has a free program called MovieMaker (downloadable) that runs under Win-XP. One of the options in MovieMaker is the ability to "export" the project back to your camcorder. So, you can import a WMV file, export it to your camcorder, and then re-import it into your own favorite editor s/w as a MPEG or AVI.