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Originally Posted by Bongle
For HD, I proposed last year that one team find an HD camcorder, place it so it can see an entire field, record every match, and torrent the whole thing in a compressed format afterwards. Many teams without cameras of their own would probably appreciate this.
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I'm not certain this is really that productive a use of a team's time and recording equipment. In years past, the "Let's fit everything into this shot" view of the field just hasn't been that useful, as robots end up pretty small and you can't really see much of what's going on. While the video editors do occasionally make strange shot choices or miss some of the action, I'd prefer getting a clear picture of 90% of the action to getting a vague picture of 100% of it.
I'll admit the nature of this year's game problem makes it more amenable to the overview shot, but I think we really usually get our money's worth out of the video producers.