Video Recording Station

[Mufasa1111]

Last year I bought a DVD from an other team that had a recording of everything that was shown on the big screen. He said that there is a station where you can hook up video recording devices. Do any of you know where that located in the Chesapeake Regional? Or who at the regional I should talk to in order to find it. I tried searching, but all I could find is that there is a station, but no one knows where it is.

[EricH]

Originally Posted by Shadow1111

Last year I bought a DVD from an other team that had a recording of everything that was shown on the big screen. He said that there is a station where you can hook up video recording devices. Do any of you know where that located in the Chesapeake Regional? Or who at the regional I should talk to in order to find it. I tried searching, but all I could find is that there is a station, but no one knows where it is.

It should be near Pit Admin. It'll look like a box with a bunch of outputs. If you can't find it, talk to Pit Admin.

[Mufasa1111]

thank you very much

[Al Skierkiewicz]

Shadow,
If pit admin does not know where it is located, look for one of the video crew. They are usually located near the field and behind the staff table near the curtain. Nearly every event I have been to sets it up close to the where the tech equipment is located. It is easier to provide power and video and audio distribution that way. When you find it, let the pit admin know where it is located.

[Mufasa1111]

Ah, other good tip, thanks.

Does anyone know from past experience if I should bring a splitter(for video, I am planning on bringing a power strip, but don't know if I need to get splitters also.)?

[Al Skierkiewicz]

I believe that the vendor contract calls for the A/V company to provide power and multiple video and audio outputs for team recording. In TV terms these are called "press boxes".

[Mike AA]

Just to be on the safe side I ALWAYS bring more cables and adapters and splitters than I need. I hook up 2 DVD recorders so they can overlap eachother when I have to stop one. I have a bag that is FULL of cables and splitters. Sometimes if there are many recorders the video and audio connectors will run out and someone will appretiate you for having a splitter already connected. Also same thing with use of your powerstrip, plug it in to help others. If you bring one make it a GOOD power strip and good tight connections.

-Mike AA
2015

[Al Skierkiewicz]

Mike,
You don't want to split (parallel) video, it cuts the level to almost half. Video inputs are 75 ohms. You can loop through the video out of one box to the video in of the next box. Audio can be split because most devices are very high impedance (greater than 10k).

[Tanner]

Hi all,

Today is the practice day of the Peachtree Regional and some members on my team would like to record some of our matches. We've asked the AV guys and they said we are free to plugin to their RCA outport board with audio and video. At home I have a RCA plug with a end connector that could plugin to the computer. Will this work? If so, do I need any special software to record? Or am I over complicating this and could just a VCR or something?

Thanks
-Tanner 1261

[Mufasa1111]

To everyone that helped, thanks.

Originally Posted by Tanner

Hi all,

Today is the practice day of the Peachtree Regional and some members on my team would like to record some of our matches. We've asked the AV guys and they said we are free to plugin to their RCA outport board with audio and video. At home I have a RCA plug with a end connector that could plugin to the computer. Will this work? If so, do I need any special software to record? Or am I over complicating this and could just a VCR or something?

Thanks
-Tanner 1261

That would work However in my experience capture cards can be unrelaible if you are leaving them for hours on end and they need software. So I would suggest using a VCR. Most VCR's are capable of recording though RCA inputs, look at the back and see if there are some RCA plugs that are labeled "input".

I suggest testing it before you get to the regional. Almost all game systes (Xbox, Wii, GameCube etc) have RCA outputs, so you could plug them into the VCR to test it. A couple other important notes are.

They provide a female plug, so you may need to get a male to male cable from radioshack to make the connection.

Depending on how many people got there first the video plug (yellow) and audio plugs (white and red) might be far apart, so I recommend bringing at lest one extra cable in case you cannot connect all of it using one cable.



BTW I don't know if this is just Chesapeake, but there were 2 stations, each having about 8 outputs, and there were only two teams recording.