Archiving Recorded Regionals 2008

[proegssilb]

Originally Posted by Greg Marra

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

At that point, I'd keep the audio in. It's very understandable, but the lack of quality bugs me to no end.

[Q. Sheets]

I can record the Great Lakes Regional and possibly webcast it as well.

I'll try not to screw up the audio. <(^^,)>

[proegssilb]

Originally Posted by Q. Sheets

I can record the Great Lakes Regional and possibly webcast it as well.

I'll try not to screw up the audio. <(^^,)>

Bring a pair of headphones or some speakers, preview a regular sound, then adjust the volume of the input to match that. Should be fine if you do that. I didn't. >.<

[SentientCitrus]

For the sake of documentation:
I've been recording match videos for the regionals 1126 has attended (Finger Lakes and Buckeye). My setup was a Sony Handycam with DV (Firewire) out, hooked up to my HP DV9000 running XP, and recording straight to an external hard drive (500GB).

I used WinDV to capture the raw DV out of the camera, and pieced together the matches (Matchnn)+scores (Matchnn_score) together with VirtualDub set to "Direct Stream Copy" (Matchnn_final). The total raw DV footage (qual+elim rounds), was a bit over 50 gigs (doubled, actually, because I was joining the match and score segments together as a separate file on-the-spot).

I encoded the match videos with Avidemux using x264 (two-pass, target bitrate 600kb/sec, interlaced (because the source is), TRO changed from 0 to 1, max consecutive B-frames chagned from 2 to 4)+faac (56KHz), using AVI as a container. The resulting files were usually between 13 and 14MB.

(As a side note on using avidemux (2.4.1 - r3791) under Windows, it was a bit unstable, I set up a batch job to take care of the conversion, and it would choke after 5-15 files. It does at least pick up from where it left off relatively well on the next start - I just had to clear the job list of the files that it'd worked through since the last crash and have it run through the remainder.)

[soap108]

Originally Posted by Jonathan Norris

Regional                                         Volunteer
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)

Don't forget Week 6 -
SOAP is covering NYC. Wasn't in the list.
Thanks
KA-108

[Akash Rastogi]

I know there was somebody who recorded Chesapeake (pentau or someone) but it still isn't up anywhere. Just wondering when that will be up on either TBA or wherever. Thanks.

[pentau]

Originally Posted by lilstogi11

I know there was somebody who recorded Chesapeake (pentau or someone) but it still isn't up anywhere. Just wondering when that will be up on either TBA or wherever. Thanks.

Sorry but I haven't been able to parse the video yet. I have been out of town for the last week so I wasn't able to get any work done. I should have a good bit of it done next week.

[LightWaves1636]

Colorado Regional:
frc.qnetalpha.com

[ham90mack]

Will somebody be finishing the VCU regional video archiving? It sounded like the video recorded of the event was complete, not fragmented. I have asked twice recently in the TBA VCU thread and nobody has said anything yet...

[Jonathan Norris]

Originally Posted by ham90mack

Will somebody be finishing the VCU regional video archiving? It sounded like the video recorded of the event was complete, not fragmented. I have asked twice recently in the TBA VCU thread and nobody has said anything yet...

Sorry about that, I've been crazy busy and sick for the last couple weeks and got exams right now so I sorta let that one go a bit. Hopefully someone can pick it up and finnish it, if not i'll get to it after my exams are over (which is after Atlanta).

[aksimhal]

Hi!

I still have all the footage from the VCU Regional. I remember that I have already uploaded all of it to the blue alliance and SOAP servers. However, I'm not sure if they are all still up there.

If needed, I can upload those files again.
Thanks

[Mike AA]

Originally Posted by ham90mack

Will somebody be finishing the VCU regional video archiving? It sounded like the video recorded of the event was complete, not fragmented. I have asked twice recently in the TBA VCU thread and nobody has said anything yet...

Are you asking for the finals? or the awards? On soap and firstvideoarchive all videos are up that were uploaded. Seems soap got another server or URL and is in process of changing things but its all still there.

-Mike

[ham90mack]

Originally Posted by Mike AA

Are you asking for the finals? or the awards? On soap and firstvideoarchive all videos are up that were uploaded. Seems soap got another server or URL and is in process of changing things but its all still there.

-Mike

Yes, I see that many of the matches and some of the finals are online, but I was talking about the matches and finals matches that are not online, plus the awards. Now I just have to wait on Jonathan or somebody to get back to splicing the videos.

Thanks for the update Jonathan; now I know that the project is not abandoned, just postponed or ready for somebody else to continue (whatever comes first, I suppose).

[BornaE]

Las Vegas Footage can be found here
http://www.hhsrobotics.org/Videos.php

[xcentrix]

My husband and I provided the webcast for Hawaii & have pretty much the entire event in archive. This is the first weekend we've had that we can work on editing the files down. Hopefully we'll have some matches available by Sunday for upload.