Coordinated Regional Video Archiving..

[Joel J]

Hey, as far as I'm aware regionals each have a drop where teams can plug-in VCRs or cameras or computers to record video. That is, whether or not a regional is webcast, the footage from that competition can still be saved and put onto SOAP108's website, or somewhere similar. What I'm wondering, and I guess I'll bump this in a few months, when it actually starts to matter, is if there could be a coordinated effort here, to ensure that every single regional has video footage put up on SOAP, for scouting purposes?

The idea:

- You volunteer to record a regionals feed.
- You bring a VCR, a camera, or a computer, and plug it into the production company's drop..
- At the end of the competitions, you send the video tape, or a CD, or something like that, to a group of people willing to go through and seperate the long stream into individual matches.
- The individual matches get posted for everyone to watch (on SOAP?)

I also wouldn't mind having the regional scoring system database put online, for scouts to be able to look at the match data (get original scores before penalties, etc..), but that's for a different thread, and is reliant upon a solid enough scoring system weeks 1-5.

Just planting the idea at this point.

Who would be interested in plugging into FIRST's video drop and recording the official feed? Who would be willing to parse each video to have individual matches ready for upload? What are some ideas as to how these two processes can be made as efficient as possible (that is, as easy as possible)?