Coordinated Regional Video Archiving..

[Petey]

Originally Posted by Joel J.

Ah.. so YouTube or Google video would be good as a complement, but should not be used as the main repository for storing all the regional video.

Why not?

I've read through the thread and I've come to a strikingly different conclusion.

Now, I've uploaded over 80 gigs of raw DV content to Google Video. It's not YouTube, in that it doesn't have the social networking content. Teams will still, I imagine, want to upload individual matches or team highlights onto YouTube. Certainly Dean's speech at BAE. We recorded, on our own, all of our matches, and will likely put that on YouTube.

However, Team 1073 also grabbed video from BAE GSR, straight from the feed. I plan on ripping that video to mpeg at 5120 kbps and uploading it directly to Google Video. They don't put a limit on what you can put up, so why not upload an entire video of comp? The whole flippin' thing?

People could search "Granite State Regional 2007" and watch the entire competition. You can, of course, chapter it by match.

If teams want to host it on their own space, that's fine. It's silly, however, to talk about paying people great sums of money to do what Google will do more reliably and for free.

A more important question that I have not seen addressed:

Does anyone know the legality of disseminating FIRST's official video from the different regionals? I heard a rumor BAE was telling people to not give out the video. Is this accurate?