[NE FIRST] Match Video Mega Thread

[Ty Tremblay]

Some of the DCMP videos are going up.

Qual Matches 102 - 120

All Playoff matches

Sorry for the poor quality. We had some encoding issues. All match videos are super quiet.

Rest of the qual matches, and the awards ceremony, will go up tomorrow.

[engunneer]

Congratulations on your VOTY. Thanks for all the hard work you put it for nefirst.

[Nathan Streeter]

Originally Posted by Ty Tremblay

Some of the DCMP videos are going up.

Qual Matches 102 - 120

All Playoff matches

Sorry for the poor quality. We had some encoding issues. All match videos are super quiet.

Rest of the qual matches, and the awards ceremony, will go up tomorrow.

First, thank you for your ongoing efforts, and congratulations on your well-deserved Volunteer of the Year award at DCMP!

Thanks for getting the DCMP video going up so quickly! Saw that the quals are up starting at match 32... I'm guessing the Qual matches from Thursday will be up, just aren't yet?

[Ty Tremblay]

Thanks everyone!

Originally Posted by Nathan Streeter

Thanks for getting the DCMP video going up so quickly! Saw that the quals are up starting at match 32... I'm guessing the Qual matches from Thursday will be up, just aren't yet?

We realized late thursday night that the Tricaster had been recording in its proprietary 4:2:2 encoding and the video won't play on anything but the tricaster. Apparently there's a codec i can download, but i need the tricaster serial number so I can register it online in order to download the codec.

May take a few days, but I'm working on it.

[MWTrek]

Any chance there's video of Friday's opening ceremony at the District Championship?

[Ty Tremblay]

Originally Posted by MWTrek

Any chance there's video of Friday's opening ceremony at the District Championship?

I have the video, but the audio is incredibly quiet. Would you like me to upload it anyway? Or would you like to have the file itself?

[cbf]

As Nathan from Mechanical Mayhem so kindly pointed out, the Ligerbots have a lot of video on our channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCgN...7d58dVR-80DCGA. Most of this is, of course, devoted to our own team, but we also filmed a lot of quarter, semi, and finals from other teams at UMass Dartmouth, Northeastern, and the WPI Championship event. We're still sorting and making playlists, but most of what we have has now been posted.

But I have a favor to ask the community. I'd like to get a custom URL for our channel -- something more descriptive than "UCgNgdmtDs7d58dVR". But YouTube has tightened up its rules on that in recent years, and to get a customer URL now, your channel needs to have 500 subscribers. Right now, we have seven. So a request to the Chief Delphi community: could you please subscribe to our channel?

Note -- we're planning on filming in St. Louis as well, just like we did last year. I'm going to try to film more matches than just our own, but we may be more limited in St Louis because the filming position I found last year, which had a really good unobstructed view of the field, didn't have any AC power anywhere nearby, so we did it all on battery.

Btw, we shoot our own video because:

1. The official video isn't always available after the match (not everyone puts in the effort that Ty has)
2. The official video is often SD (480i), or at best 720p. We shoot full 1080P
3. The official video often zooms in on half the field, or a particular robot, missing crucial action that occurs elsewhere in the field. We generally film the whole field (which works well when you're shooting full 1080p with a good quality camcorder). This was particularly bad at World's last year, and I actually had some conversations with one of the cameramen about this (since I had set up my camera up in the upper deck right next to his). He said that First never explained the game to the cameramen. He was a professional that also did the St Louis Rams in that stadium, and if he knew that game, he could make better judgments. First just told him to focus on the part of the field that had the most robots.

[engunneer]

Originally Posted by cbf

if he knew that game, he could make better judgments.

Sounds like we need a quick one sheet guide to match strategy from a camera operator's POV. Has anyone worked up something like that they can bring to STL?

[cbf]

Originally Posted by engunneer

Sounds like we need a quick one sheet guide to match strategy from a camera operator's POV. Has anyone worked up something like that they can bring to STL?

The trick would be getting the FIRST video people at accept our point of view and actually give it to their camera operators.

My impression is that they do what they do because they want it look like (and have the excitement of) a sports competition -- forgetting perhaps that few team sports have multiple focuses of action. (Car racing is probably closest.)