Team 818 2008 HD Videos (First FIRST HD Videos???)

[Tomasz Bania]

Originally Posted by Qbranch

Wow! FIRST in HD! Great!

I remember seeing HD written on a lot of the camera gear at Midwest and wondering if anyone would be posting on any HD video hosting websites like Crackle.

I hope that at least some of the HD video survives from these events.

Thanks for recording!

-q

The cameras may be HD, but you need all the hardware after that to show the HD (HD Projector,etc)

I would post it on Crackle, but unfortunately, Crackle Doesn't support the AVCHD HD format.

To Clarify the specs for the original HD Recording:

Format:AVCHD
Video Bitrate:15 Megabits per second (approx. 2.5 Megabytes per second)
Audio Format: Dolby Digital 5.1
Audio Bitrate: 444kbps+ at 48kHz

I have found how to render to AVCHD so I will try to render them in the original format.

Originally Posted by Pat McCarthy

Is there supposed to be sound in these clips?

Yes, all of these clips have sound, you may have to use another video player like VLC, or your computer may not be able to handle such high-quality output.

Originally Posted by Bongle

You can probably get away with a bit more aggressive compression settings. Microsoft has a bunch of HD videos on their site that were compressed with WMV-HD, and they are all about 100mb for 2 minutes.

A 25gb blu-ray disc can contain 4.5 hours of 1920x1080 video (source), which is 92mb/minute.

I will try rendering in the original AVCHD for the "Full HD" video, but I can't render WMV-HD in Sony Vegas (the software i'm using to edit and render), So I render WMV with a High Bitrate (less taxing on a computer, and also not "true HD", but hard to notice the difference unless you are using a 30"+ screen.

EDIT: Found a way to render WMV-HD, will post when available.

If you can think of a comparable format renderable in Sony Vegas than post it here.
Thanks.

Originally Posted by RyanCesiel

Do these have scores on them? The video crew at Detroit worked all day Thursday trying to get the video working so there really wasn't anything to record. On Friday, when I went to setup our video camera, there was a VCR recording matches, was that you guys?

The scores are displayed at the beginning of the video. And we we're using our own HD cam to film the matches (the cameras they had at the regional were not HD, nor do I think the other hardware they have is "HD-Ready". I'm not sure what team had the VCR there, but do you know if you need any special cables to plug in to their stream (for Future Reference)?

Originally Posted by Ctrl Alt Delete

Our team may be shooting in HD at the Championship. So watch for that.

Can't wait to see it!

Also, is there any way I can edit the Original Post?