Archiving Recorded Regionals 2008

[soap108]

This is an update to a previous post:
http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/sh...d.php?p=576804

This one has the 2008 regionals.




For consistency and predictability sake, we have a preference in naming the movie files.

General Naming Rules
* Two or three character event abbreviation in lowercase, e.g. "fl"
* Underscore, "_"

* XOR:
Qualification: Use THREE digits, "001", "047", "108".
Elimination: Use "qf4m2", "sf2m1", "fm3"
Awards: Use "award_" + AwardDescription.
Opening: Use "openingremarks_" + "friday" or "saturday".
Closing: Use "closingremarks_" + "friday" or "saturday".
Else: any string that does not begin with "qf", "sf", "fm", or a digit.

* ".wmv" (or whatever format extention you encoded, hopefully windows media)

Notes:
# Always use lowercase, please.
# No spaces in a filename, please.
# Sometimes a match gets replayed- name the one that counts in the standings as "fl_001.wmv". The one(s) that do NOT count, "fl_001bad1.wmv", "fl_001bad2.wmv", etc...

Abbreviations are as follows:
BAE SYSTEMS Granite State Regional NH
Midwest Regional IL
New Jersey Regional NJ
Pacific Northwest Regional OR
St. Louis Regional MO

Arizona Regional AZ
Finger Lakes Regional ROC
Greater Kansas City Regional KC
NASA / VCU Regional VA
San Diego Regional SDC

Boilermaker Regional IN
Chesapeake Regional MD
UTC Connecticut Regional CT
Detroit Regional DT
Florida Regional FL
Peachtree Regional GA
Pittsburgh Regional PIT
Silicon Valley Regional SJ
Wisconsin Regional WI
Brazilian Regional BR

Buckeye Regional OH
Lone Star Regional TX
Los Angeles Regional CA
Microsoft Seattle Regional WA
Oklahoma City Regional OK
Sacramento Regional SAC
Waterloo Regional WAT
West Michigan Regional MI

Israel Regional IS

Bayou Regional LA
Boston Regional MA
Colorado Regional CO
Great Lakes Regional GL
Greater Toronto Regional ON
Hawaii Regional HI
Las Vegas Regional NV
Minnesota Regional MN
Palmetto Regional SC
Philadelphia Regional PA
SBPLI Long Island Regional LI

New York City Regional NY


Many thanks,
KA-108

[Greg Marra]

Originally Posted by soap108

* ".wmv" (or whatever format extention you encoded, hopefully windows media)

I still really feel we should move to a modern video format. The videos Wildstang has posted are in xVid and are wonderfully easier to work with than Windows Media Video files.

[Vikesrock]

I'm pretty sure 2175 will be recording MN.

I think we definitely should try and pick one video format for all the videos.

[aksimhal]

Has anyone tried SnapStream yet? (I'm downloading it right now)? Any opinions?

[Jonathan Norris]

Originally Posted by aksimhal

Has anyone tried SnapStream yet? (I'm downloading it right now)? Any opinions?

I have and my honest opinion is that it is far easier to just record directly with windows movie maker. SnapStream is a good program, but for this application its just too much effort to set up, firing up windows movie maker is just alot easier.

[aksimhal]

Originally Posted by Jonathan Norris

I have and my honest opinion is that it is far easier to just record directly with windows movie maker. SnapStream is a good program, but for this application its just too much effort to set up, firing up windows movie maker is just alot easier.

But doesn't Windows Movie Maker only output to .wmv?

[Greg Marra]

Originally Posted by aksimhal

But doesn't Windows Movie Maker only output to .wmv?

And my experience is batch converting out of WMV is very slow.

[Chris Marra]

Two capture programs that ought to be significantly easier to capture with than Windows Media Encoder or Windows Movie Maker are WinDV and VirtualVCR.

WinDV literally records straight from a DV camcorder (90% of these will take video input by buying a composite jack coupler and plugging a feed into the traditional video output port.) Then, spacebar will start and stop recording, automatically splitting the file each time, making it very easy to parse matches. (As long as you don't have it set to capture every 150th frame, like 177 did for Jersey 2007 (Though this is nice for timelapsing)). DV files are not tiny, but capturing only a few hours should not be too large.

VirtualVCR serves a similar function, except it is compatible with any capture device that has a WDM driver, not just DV cameras (that means ~everything). I honestly have not used it much and am unfamiliar with the way it operates, but it could be a great alternative if you cannot capture using DV.

[aksimhal]

Interesting...

What would work best with the FIRST Regional setup?

[synth3tk]

I don't know what I'll be using yet. It's up in the air. Guess I can try to build some inexpensive rig to do a capture on. We do plan on also making our own recordings available.

[Greg Marra]

I put together this graphic explaining how The Blue Alliance plans to record the Boston Regional. Hopefully others can find it of use.

[Jonathan Norris]

Originally Posted by blakcheez

I don't know what I'll be using yet. It's up in the air. Guess I can try to build some inexpensive rig to do a capture on. We do plan on also making our own recordings available.

for capturing on the cheep I recommend this USB Capture device. It worked well for me last year and it runs off usb. for capturing to DV I would be be worried about hard drive space for most people, I recorded in wmv last year at about 2 mb/s and got about 15GB of footage for a regional. If you got a big external HD go ahead and record in DV.

[aksimhal]

At the regional, the feed will be provided with composite type cable or something else?

Thanks

[Jonathan Norris]

Originally Posted by Vikesrock

I think we definitely should try and pick one video format for all the videos.

As I stated above outputting to .mp4, or .mov (h.264) is really easy with all these free ipod video converters. This is what I recommended above:

Format: .mov or .mp4 (.h264 or MPG4)
Resoultion: 640X480 VGA
Video Bit Rate: 1024kbps
Audio Bit Rate: 128kbps Stereo