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Originally Posted by MissDaisyGirl
I guess I was under the impression that you got the direct feed from all of the jumbotron video from each event. :-/
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On the topic of recording regionals, we only get video from events where people, or regional planning committees, have thought of this beforehand. We have three mobile recording devices [set it and forget it] that we ship into and out of events frequently, as well as video capture hardware for laptops [slightly more involved]. FIRST does not do any of the video capture, but the AV teams running regionals have never denied us a feed, and usually set up a table for anyone who volunteers to do this.
As has been pointed out in previous threads, if you want to see your regional recorded, just let us [Greg or I are the primary contacts] know and we can get you all the hardware you need and walk you through it, which is quite simple. If your team sometimes takes video of the whole field from the stands for scouting purposes,
that's actually even better because it shows the match action, and not close-ups of robot components that cameramen seem to like. After the fact you either mail us everything back, or upload the videos to our server. If you didn't cut them into individual matches [sadly, this hasn't been fully automated yet], we try to solicit volunteers to do that, and then we handle the video conversions to make streamable and downloadable versions.
Both the video and photo process can come down to a lot of manual work since we can't get the photos from FIRST nor hook into their systems for recording, so we do rely on volunteers. The Blue Alliance is really just a couple of college students, so the more you can help as a community, the better.