Coordinated Regional Video Archiving..

[Joel J]

What I'm pushing for is to get everything uploaded to SOAP, and for the other outlets to then get their footage from that one, central, location (SOAP). I really don't want to abandon the idea of having everything on SOAP. With a Mozilla plug-in (Download Them all) its really not that hard to get the footage from SOAP's site, once its up.

[Petey]

Originally Posted by Joel J.

Hosting for these videos is being donated, AFAIK.

For SOAP, ok. I was referring to other things.

I don't begrudge anyone hosting their own video! I'm just talking about using resources.

Originally Posted by Jonathan Norris

I thought I should bring this discussion over here too. Watch the video and you will see how much Google is trying to help us, lets all spend the time to upload the video to YouTube as well as SOAP so we can get more publicity for FIRST. SOAP is perfect for our more 'internal' uses, but its not ideal as a publicity tool. This is where YouTube comes in, there are millions of users of there, many of whom will stumble upon our great competition.

Right. I was up in the Sam Adams booth on Saturday talking to Dean about the benefits/problems of integrating FIRST with YouTube. For instance, most high schools block YouTube. And if you want to catch people with a viral meme, than how do you take 6 weeks of FIRST and construct something that will compel the viewer to up and drive to comp in a video that must be less than a minute or two? I'm working on figuring that out but darn if it isn't difficult.

Originally Posted by Joel J.

What I'm pushing for is to get everything uploaded to SOAP, and for the other outlets to then get their footage from that one, central, location (SOAP). I really don't want to abandon the idea of having everything on SOAP. With a Mozilla plug-in (Download Them all) its really not that hard to get the footage from SOAP's site, once its up.

Again--did BAE give you guys the clearance to disseminate that? I'm getting my tape but I need to know this.

[Kevin Kolodziej]

Originally Posted by soap108

IMPORTANT


When you go to encode in Windows Media Encoder, please select the option 'Deinterlace'. It is found in Properties -> Processing Tab.
This helps eliminate "liney" video when objects move rapidly.

Also, turn on Indexing.

See http://www.soap.circuitrunners.com/2007/2007.wme

Thanks,
KA-108

Forgive my ignorance, but what are you supposed to do with that code file? I can't figure out what to do with it in WME9. Aside from the couple of options pointed out above, does that take care of everything else, such as naming conventions and all that jazz? If not, thats fine, since I planned on doing it all 2 minutes at a time anyways....so anything above that is gravy. Fortunately, it looks like my Dazzle capture device will work just fine to get those nice 740x480 .wmv files.

[soap108]

Originally Posted by Kevin Kolodziej

Forgive my ignorance, but what are you supposed to do with that code file? I can't figure out what to do with it in WME9. Aside from the couple of options pointed out above, does that take care of everything else, such as naming conventions and all that jazz? If not, thats fine, since I planned on doing it all 2 minutes at a time anyways....so anything above that is gravy. Fortunately, it looks like my Dazzle capture device will work just fine to get those nice 740x480 .wmv files.

It's a settings file. Double-click and it should launch WME9. There's some settings we prefer like the key-frames, the metadata, the bitrate for audio and video.... It does not take care of naming convention. That is manual. We've tried writting a tool to auto-name but it gets too complicated. Human control is just easier.


Thanks,
KA-108

[soap108]

Regarding YouTube-

Yes, the current SOAP site lacks a search tool. If there's someone out there in the FIRST Community that would be willing to author a php / mysql website to do this, we'll gladly host it on the circuitrunner site.

KA-108

[Mike AA]

Originally Posted by soap108

Regarding YouTube-

Yes, the current SOAP site lacks a search tool. If there's someone out there in the FIRST Community that would be willing to author a php / mysql website to do this, we'll gladly host it on the circuitrunner site.

KA-108

I use Auto index on my teams website for past and present video. Auto index has a built in search and very small coding.

Mike Aalderink

[Kevin Kolodziej]

Originally Posted by soap108

It's a settings file. Double-click and it should launch WME9. There's some settings we prefer like the key-frames, the metadata, the bitrate for audio and video.... It does not take care of naming convention. That is manual. We've tried writting a tool to auto-name but it gets too complicated. Human control is just easier.


Thanks,
KA-108

Ah, yeah...now I feel silly. I was just opening it online and getting lines of code and thinking....er....???

Now I understand!

Thanks,

Kevin

[Bomberofdoom]

If I can orginize some cams, I'll try to capture some matches(probablly it will only be our team's matches, but we'll try to film others).

[Ellery]

Well the FLR is over but it may take me some time to digitize 6 video tapes worth of FLR. Also depends on hor you sort the activities into: Opening Ceremony, Matches, Closing Ceremony. I'll see after I get all the stuff from Ed on Monday night.

[Petey]

Say, does anyone have a video of Dean's robotic arm?

[soap108]

Anyone have a ETA on the rest of week 1? week 2?

Thanks,
KA

[Madison]

Originally Posted by soap108

Anyone have a ETA on the rest of week 1? week 2?

Thanks,
KA

The PNW matches have been parsed; they now just need to be compressed and named according to convention. It may be a while still, though, because I have to worry about finishing some work up first and then we're away for the Silicon Valley Regional. We'll also be recording that event.

[Pat Fairbank]

Originally Posted by soap108

Anyone have a ETA on the rest of week 1? week 2?

Thanks,
KA

The matches from the Great Lakes Regional were all successfully recorded by one of team 1503's members; however, I couldn't say how long it'll be before they are uploaded.

[Kevin Kolodziej]

Eliminations, award intro, and chairman's award are up for Wisconsin. The rest will be rolling in steadily until Wednesday, then I'm off to Purdue. Will hopefully finish up the rest before I head out to Cleveland the following week.

[1359th Scalawag]

*too lazy to read all 10 pages for something i'm not sure is there*

Does anybody know if the Pacific Northwest Regional was recorded or if we will eventually be able to view it somwhere? So far, i've only been able to find a single match on Youtube.

So here are my questions:
1. Does anybody know if it was recorded?
2. If so, where can I find the footage?
3. If not, are there any plans to tape it next year?
4. If there are no plans to tape it next year, how can I?

5. Is the Davis Sacramento Regional going to be recorded?
6. If not, how can I make it so?

Could somebody please PM me with the answers to some/all of these questions? Thank You.