Archiving Recorded Regionals 2008

[Chris Marra]

That device looks extremely promising, because it will record in 640x480 at a high bitrate that we can cut down later. Frankly, after the (no offense to whoever did it) abysmal audio and video quality of the Florida matches, I am excited to see things like this.

[pentau]

I'm a little confused about parsing Quicktime files recorded in the h.264 format. I have been told that it is possible to do that without having to re-encode the video (a quite lengthy process...). Does anyone know how to do this? What do you use to create the individual video files?

[Joe Ross]

Originally Posted by pentau

I'm a little confused about parsing Quicktime files recorded in the h.264 format. I have been told that it is possible to do that without having to re-encode the video (a quite lengthy process...). Does anyone know how to do this? What do you use to create the individual video files?

I am planning on using avidemux on linux. It looks like they also have a windows version, but I haven't used it.

I ran some tests yesterday and it was able to save a parsed H.264 file almost instantly, and it only took a few seconds to join 2 files.

[pentau]

Originally Posted by Joe Ross

I am planning on using avidemux on linux. It looks like they also have a windows version, but I haven't used it.

I ran some tests yesterday and it was able to save a parsed H.264 file almost instantly, and it only took a few seconds to join 2 files.

Thanks! That looks good, I will try it when I get home.

[Roy Shaul]

My team (2231) will probably be able to webcast Israel regional.
I will give you a final answer on friday.

[Jonathan Norris]

Regional                                         Volunteer
Suffield Shakedown
Rochester Rally                                 Ed Patterson (Koko Ed, team 191)
Week 1
BAE Systems Granite State Regional              Kyle Fenton (team 121) *may need parser
Midwest Regional                                WildStang 111 (possibly...)
New Jersey Regional                             SOAP (team 108)
Oregon Regional                                 Madison Krass (M. Krass, team 488)
St. Louis Regional                              DeAnnaC
Week 2
Arizona Regional                                Andrew (Donut, team 498)
Finger Lakes Regional                           Ed Patterson (Koko Ed, team 191)
Greater Kansas City Regional
NASA / VCU Regional                             Anish (aksimhal, team 1123)
San Diego Regional                              AJ (ay2b, team 980)
Week 3
Boilermaker Regional                            Mike Aalderink (mike AA, team 2015)
Brazil Regional                                 sloteera (team 1860), Bruno (Thexder, team 1382)
Chesapeake Regional                             Will (pentau, team 449)
Connecticut Regional                            team 230
Detroit Regional 
Florida Regional                                SOAP (team 108)
Peachtree Regional                              Nancy O.  (team 1261) (did you record this regional??)
Pittsburgh Regional 
Silicon Valley Regional                         AJ (ay2b, team 980)
Wisconsin Regional                              Kevin Kolodziej  (team 1675)
Week 4
Buckeye Regional                                David Thomas (blakcheez, team 964)
Lone Star Regional                              Kevin Sevcik (team 57)
Los Angeles Regional                            AJ (ay2b, team 980), Joe Ross (team 330)
Microsoft Seattle Regional                      Madison Krass (M. Krass, team 488)
Oklahoma City Regional 
UC Davis Sacramento Regional                    Doug G (team 701)
Waterloo Regional                               Jonathan Norris (team 610)
West Michigan Regional                          Mike Aalderink (mike AA, team 2015)
Israel Regional                                 Roy Shaul (team 2231) (Web cast possibly, recording???)
Week 5
Bayou Regional 
Boston Regional                                 Greg Marra (The Blue Alliance)
Colorado Regional 
Great Lakes Regional 
Greater Toronto Regional 
Hawaii Regional 
Las Vegas Regional 
Minnesota Regional                              Kevin O'Connor (Vikesrock, team 2175)
Palmetto Regional 
Philadelphia Regional
SBPLI Long Island Regional 
Championship                                    SOAP (team 108)

Looks like in Week 3 we possibly got 8 out of the 10 regionals covered. To everyone who recorded a regional, please contact me if you have any questions about uploading raw footage ect. Most importantly if you do plan on uploading raw footage create a new post in The Blue Alliance Forums telling us so we can arrange for the parsing of that video.

Next week looks like we have every regional covered but Oklahoma City Regional, so if there is anyone out there going to Oklahoma and is willing to record the video please do so.

We are still looking for a couple people to record week 5 regionals, if you would like to (or are allready planning on) recording one of those regionals please speak up!

We are doing a great job so far, but we need to see more of that rocorded video up on the TBA and SOAP servers fully parsed, so get that raw footage somewhere we can use it and if you are willing to parse any video please check out The Blue Alliance forums.

[aksimhal]

Hi!

Johnathan - Were you able to find Finals of VCU on the SOAP server?

Thanks,

[synth3tk]

I just got high-speed (7MBps) internet up today, and Linux running, so I should be able to start parsing videos after our regional.

[Nancy O.]

Yep, 1261 was able to record Peachtree (week 3) digitally. Tanner's the one who actually recorded it, not me :P Unfortunately, Saturday has no audio...
We also saw 343 recording with good old VHS tapes. Need to drop them a note and ask if they got audio Saturday...

We are also planning on recording Palmetto (week 5), as far as I know, but that's not definite yet (since we have a reduced showing and all that).

[pentau]

I'm having some problems with poor sound quality on the video I recorded at Chesapeake. The audio is low-ish and there is a loud buzzing in the background (some research shows that that usually indicates that the mult-box wasn't grounded).

Any ideas? Should I try to salvage the audio (ie, remove the buzzing noise)? Or just split everything up without doing anything to the audio?

[Jonathan Norris]

Originally Posted by pentau

I'm having some problems with poor sound quality on the video I recorded at Chesapeake. The audio is low-ish and there is a loud buzzing in the background (some research shows that that usually indicates that the mult-box wasn't grounded).

Any ideas? Should I try to salvage the audio (ie, remove the buzzing noise)? Or just split everything up without doing anything to the audio?

post a test video so we can see how one of the matches sound.

[lukevanoort]

Originally Posted by pentau

I'm having some problems with poor sound quality on the video I recorded at Chesapeake. The audio is low-ish and there is a loud buzzing in the background (some research shows that that usually indicates that the mult-box wasn't grounded).

Any ideas? Should I try to salvage the audio (ie, remove the buzzing noise)? Or just split everything up without doing anything to the audio?

It depends on the source of the buzz and what software you have available. Final Cut Pro (and most decent video editing software, I assume) can pretty easily edit out 60Hz hum of mains power being run through a bad place (ground loops, conductors too close to sensitive parts of the recording device, etc). If that doesn't work (assuming the announcer is louder than the hum), you could try an expansion filter of some sort to make the hum quieter in relation to the announcer. If you try an expansion approach, be prepared to mess with filter settings a bit to keep from getting really funky effects.

[Bomberofdoom]

Guys, there's a big chance that we might be able to archive the Israel Regional (might be available thanks to Or Makbiliy from FLL team 33 from Herzliya, Israel).
Tommorow me and him are gonna' test the webcasting over there and if everything is fine, we should have all matches recoreded and uploaded up to an hour after they happen (maybe even less)

[proegssilb]

If everyone can handle video that had to go through WMV through first-time recording error, someone e-mail me with upload instructions, and I can start uploading tomorrow once I get all the clips out of WMM2. I didn't bother including penalty readings or match results, but I have the videos of those (mixed up with introductions of each team for the following match-- didn't want to take forever watching vids in real-time for clipping). If anyone minds where I cut, speak now, and wait a few weeks.

I effectively don't have the first day of qualifications, accidentally recorded with the volume too high, so it'll sound horrible no matter what I do. If you guys still want it, I might be able to trim those up next saturday, but I have yet to cut up the elimination matches. I don't have the awards, and I'm skipping Opening Ceremonies/Awards unless there is a *really* high demand for those.

EDIT: Oh, look... I just found a way to get the original out of Indeo codec without using WMM2... ok, that set everything back a while. If you still want the WMV-corrupted versions, fine, but otherwise, I'm holding off.

[Greg Marra]

Originally Posted by proegssilb

II effectively don't have the first day of qualifications, accidentally recorded with the volume too high, so it'll sound horrible no matter what I do. If you guys still want it, I might be able to trim those up next saturday, but I have yet to cut up the elimination matches.

We could just remove the audio and then people can still watch the matches?