2008 Lone Star AV and Videos

[Kevin Sevcik]

Or the lack of said videos. I don't know if anyone else that attended noticed, but the AV work at the regional was sub-par compared to previous years. There was much footage of floors and carpets, and pre-made clips were all jittery when displayed on the screen. Unfortunately, my recording of the event was bitten by this poor AV as well. For whatever reason, the saturation on the video feed for teams was turned up about 5 notches too high, and I wasn't aware of this until looking over my recordings just now. For the normal video footage this simply makes things look too colorful and could be filtered out. Unfortunately, the computer generated scoring screens and real-time scoring overlays are typically already at or near oversaturation. This combined with whatever was already cranking up the saturation in the video signal managed to completely distort and ruin the entire video signal. The result is video that looks like something out of a 60's acid trip whenever the real time scoring or any computer generated graphic is up. As such, pretty much the entirety of the matches are completely useless, as are the award ceremonies. I very much apologize to any teams or individuals that were depending on me for footage of the event. I didn't have time to watch the feed my computer was receiving and I very much doubt I would have had time to argue things out with a busy AV crew on a Friday afternoon either. I'll endeavor next year to record practice matches as a test run to hash things out with the AV crew.

Apologies again,

Kevin S.