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Video Pitfalls at the New Jersey Comp.
Posted by Mike King, Other on team #88, TJē, from Bridgewater Raynham and Johnson & Johnson Professional.
Posted on 3/21/99 6:20 PM MST In Reply to: VIDEOS posted by Jason on 3/21/99 3:31 PM MST: I read on this board a few weeks ago that other teams were bringing VCR's to the competitions, and taping the FIRST Video Feed. I thought "GREAT", so I bring a VCR and 4 hours of tape to the New Jersey Regional. On Thursday, I talk to the lone Audio/Video guy at the booth and ask him where I could plug in. He's never heard of anybody doing it. Sorry, can't help you. Not being disappointed, and not satisfied with that answer at all, I go back early Friday morning. I see the same guy there. I ask him again the exact same question, and he points to a small table and says the Press feeds are right there. Saturday, I return and plug right in. There was another guy trying to get his VCR to work. (Some VCR's require you put them in to LINE mode when you come off a RCA cable feed, as we were) So I help him out setting it up. He wanted to test it so we record a few minutes of it and play it back by plugging the little TV they had there into his VCR. It works great, until the guy asks where the sound was. Good question, so we ask the Engineer. He runs out, tests a few cables with a signal meter. There all Dead. He runs a new cable, says it's fine. We still can't hear anything on the TV. He came over, tested the feed and said it was fine. After the competition, I take the tapes back to my Hotel room and play them back. No audio. Not even an annoying hum. Four hours of complete silence. Now I'm just a team member, but CNN was supposed to have been there Friday and Saturday. How much you wanna bet there gonna run footage without sound? I just wish I had written down the name of Company that was doing the A/V. I know they were based out of Randolf, MA. (up the street from me) So a word of advice. If you use a feed from someone else, check that it works. I'm just debating whether I should write a letter to FIRST. It's not their fault, and they couldn't have done anything about it. But I don't know if they even know that this happened. What do you guys think? Mike |
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