Old School FRC Match Videos - Who Has Them?

[aspiece]

I am pretty sure Truck Town has videos of just about anything you can think of from the past. We have an absurd amount of video footage from the past.

Here is the problem: They are all on VHS cassettes. I would love to share them with everyone and I am sure there are some great matches in there. We just need to get them digital.

Any volunteers to sit through hours of video conversion?

[Joe G.]

Originally Posted by aspiece

I am pretty sure Truck Town has videos of just about anything you can think of from the past. We have an absurd amount of video footage from the past.

Here is the problem: They are all on VHS cassettes. I would love to share them with everyone and I am sure there are some great matches in there. We just need to get them digital.

Any volunteers to sit through hours of video conversion?

I'm a bit far away from you guys, but me and some of my team members may be interested in taking this on. I'm a sucker for old match video and FRC history.

[Mike AA]

Originally Posted by magnets

Do you know if the videos hosted on soap were lost, because some could probably be hosted on TBA. Also, some of the videos from soap can be found on the internet archive here if you search .asf, .wmv, or .mov in the links.

There are actually quite a few files on there so i will have to crawl the crawler . I am going to get ahold of the host holding onto soap.circuitrunners.com to see if the files are still there just locked off.

[Koko Ed]

Here's our first match from 2003 with 25 vs. 713 and 371.

[Pat McCarthy]

I have a number of HOT's matches posted on my YouTube channel:
http://www.youtube.com/user/pcpat67/...ow=grid&view=0

I digitized a number of 67's old VHS recordings in hopes of preserving as much as possible. Posted on my channel are:

• A hand-held recording of HOT's perspective of the 1997 Midwest Regional. It's an awesome time capsule showing what events looked like then.
• 3 matches from 2000's Midwest Regional quarter finals
• 3 matches from the semi-finals and finals of Newton 2002 (including two matches with 71's file card walking robot!)
• Tons of matches from 2003-2005

Also: two almost complete Dean Simmons and the Kamen Brothers concerts.

[lynca]

Originally Posted by Mike AA

There are actually quite a few files on there so i will have to crawl the crawler . I am going to get ahold of the host holding onto soap.circuitrunners.com to see if the files are still there just locked off.

SOAP handed out CDs at championship. I happen to have a couple. I started to upload 2005 matches onto my youtube account.

I submitted all the videos to TBA's upload google doc as well. The TBA upload process should take a week or so.
Then hopefully TBA will finally have a few more 2005 champs video

[apples000]

If you have them, I'd love to see videos from 03.

[abel1422]

Dose anyone know where i can find videos of the 05 UC Davis regional? Been looking online with not much luck.

Thanks to anyone who can help.

[Racer26]

Originally Posted by Travis Hoffman

1999 Championship Finals (behind the scenes, feat. famous people and such): http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLC10EDA122AFA63BE

Random Team 48 match videos from 2000-2007:
http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL451A5331A7D37056

Travis, do you have the 2003 Canada SF1-2 match?

1075 would have been playing in it.

[Kevin Kolodziej]

I have a pile of VHS tapes sitting on my shelf at home, collecting dust!

Mostly they are from 1999, 2000, and 2001 - I"m not sure if they are full events (Chicago, Great Lakes, etc.) or just our matches, but I'll try to look. I also have VHS feeds from WI in 06 and 07 I believe, as well as some SOAP discs (as others have mentioned).

I'll try to compile a list of what I have and compare to what's out there already. Parsing the video will take a while though..

Kevin

[plnyyanks]

Once digitized, splitting up the matches can be made much simpler with these python scripts intended to help with just that