Archiving Recorded Regionals 2008

[Jonathan Norris]

Regional Season is quickly coming along, its time to do a little organization to see how we are going to get EVERY Regional this year recorded and up on the interwebs. Last year by my rough count we got video footage from 26 regionals, with only about 7-8 of those regionals with at least 90% of the matches uploaded. Which for our community is a great achievement, with a little more organization I believe that we can get 90% of the regionals totally recorded from Match 1 to the last Final match.

I think you all know how great a scouting resource having match footage of different robots is. But it take a lot of effort from volunteers to get all that footage up on the internet. I know that last year I recorded and parsed three regionals (New Hampshire, Waterloo, and GTR) and it took a couple hours to set up the recording and then basically took a day or more for me to go through all the footage and cut it up the upload it for each regional. This year (because I am now in University) I will only be able to record and parse Waterloo. Now that means we need at least 41 other people to volunteer their time to record (the easy part), parse (i.e. cut up the video into matches), and upload them to the different online resources (The Blue Alliance Match Archives, SOAP, Youtube, ect.)

I'll try and keep this list updated of who is volunteering to record what (feel free to have more the one person record a regional! you can split up the hard work of parsing and uploading!)

Regional                                         Volunteer
Week 1
BAE Systems Granite State Regional 
Midwest Regional 
New Jersey Regional 
Oregon Regional 
St. Louis Regional 
Week 2
Arizona Regional 
Finger Lakes Regional                           Ed Patterson (Koko Ed, team 191)
Greater Kansas City Regional
NASA / VCU Regional 
San Diego Regional                              AJ (ay2b, team 980)
Week 3
Boilermaker Regional                            Mike Aalderink (mike AA, team 2015)
Brazil Regional 
Chesapeake Regional 
Connecticut Regional 
Detroit Regional 
Florida Regional 
Peachtree Regional 
Pittsburgh Regional 
Silicon Valley Regional                         AJ (ay2b, team 980)
Wisconsin Regional 
Week 4
Buckeye Regional                                David Thomas (blakcheez, team 964)
Lone Star Regional                              Kevin Sevcik (team 57)
Los Angeles Regional                            AJ (ay2b, team 980)
Microsoft Seattle Regional 
Oklahoma City Regional 
UC Davis Sacramento Regional 
Waterloo Regional                               Jonathan Norris (team 610)
West Michigan Regional                          Mike Aalderink (mike AA, team 2015)
Israel Regional 
Week 5
Bayou Regional 
Boston Regional 
Colorado Regional 
Great Lakes Regional 
Greater Toronto Regional 
Hawaii Regional 
Las Vegas Regional 
Minnesota Regional 
Palmetto Regional 
Philadelphia Regional
SBPLI Long Island Regional 
New York City Regional

(I believe the SOAP people usually will archive the Championship event, i'm sure they will find this thread and let us know if that is happening again)

I'll post some more in-depth tutorials on how to go about recording, parsing, and uploading (and my personal opinion on formating, mpg4 FTW!) later on, but right now its more important to find someone interested in recording each of these regionals. Feel free to ask here or PM me with any questions.