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[Jon Stratis]

Man, I feel bad for the red alliance... That R2 unit has a bad motivator, look!

[Gregor]

Not myth buster anymore, but we still love you Grant!

[FrankJ]

We left our field at home, but we where at Dragoncon in Atlanta. A somewhat similar event.

[Koko Ed]

Originally Posted by Gregor

Not myth buster anymore, but we still love you Grant!

and no more FRC 841 either. It would be cool if he came back to mentoring a FIRST team again.

[Qbot2640]

With yet another animation contest announced...I am finally going to ask: Why the weird submission format? Is this some kind of industry standard that I don't realize (since we don't do any other animation or really heavy video editing)? This has always been a hassle to create, and then I'm always worried that it didn't work somehow - and have no way to view the file to make sure it's ok. I really wish they would just allow some "universally recognized" video format, like avi or something!

[BigJ]

Originally Posted by Qbot2640

With yet another animation contest announced...I am finally going to ask: Why the weird submission format? Is this some kind of industry standard that I don't realize (since we don't do any other animation or really heavy video editing)? This has always been a hassle to create, and then I'm always worried that it didn't work somehow - and have no way to view the file to make sure it's ok. I really wish they would just allow some "universally recognized" video format, like avi or something!

ISO disk images can be burned to DVDs and handed to the judges they pick. Depending on the judge, handing them a flash drive with 40 .avi's on it may not work out.

[Jon Stratis]

Originally Posted by BigJ

ISO disk images can be burned to DVDs and handed to the judges they pick. Depending on the judge, handing them a flash drive with 40 .avi's on it may not work out.

You know, I understand the reasoning behind the submission criteria... FIRST wants to be able to burn a DVD and pop it into a DVD player at the event to put it on the screen. They also want something standardized so they don't run into issues like not having the right codec around.

But really... in today's world it seems like we could move to something like submission by YouTube - upload an HD version to YouTube, and give FIRST the link. Then instead of handing judges DVD's, you just give them a list of YouTube links. All these videos seem to end up on YouTube anyways...

[BigJ]

I'm not saying it's an efficient or correct reason, I'm just saying why it probably is how it is I'm very thankful we can just plop an approved video file on a flash drive for Chairman's now, though.