[NE FIRST] Match Video Mega Thread

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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.