Team Videographers??

[MichalSkiba]

Wow. I left to get my skates sharpened and already theres 6 replys!

This year I'm thinking of putting together several pieces:

1 / 2 / 5 minute promotional segements.
--one set for sponsors, one for students
30 minute segement for the regional.
30 minute segement for the final.
1 hour movie of the entire season.

I was thinking of burning them onto DVDs (and perhaps selling the 1 hour movie as part of a fundraiser). Our school has a G4 lab with DVD-burns and OSX. I don't have much fimiliarity with DVD authoring software, and I'm looking for suggestions [software and composing the DVD]. iDVD is free although I'm asumming thee will be as much flexibility as in iMovie [close to zero].

A VERY valuable lesson I learned in the days following our team's trip to Houston was to log everything. Right there and then. I had spent the following week trying to log everything, that otherwise would have taken me an additional moment when filming.

I had filmed all of our heats, and the Curie final heats [to know what our team had to live up to next season]. Although we weren't able to screen it in the pits, it still gave us a valuable tool use in analyzing our strategy and driving.

For filming matches, tight shots are definatley the way to go, but showing more of the field at times allows the viewer to see what the robot is responding to. The stands are the best place to film from, because by zooming out you'll get a nice panaramic bird's eye view of the field.

Something to keep inmind for the kick-off/regional/final: The breakboxes had XLR audio out and S-video out [I believe].

BTW, if your team has and footage online, post a link.