Archiving Regionals Video 2009

[Ellery]

Originally Posted by Mike AA

Does anyone else notice this year we have many fewer regionals archived than we did last year at this time? After 4 weeks there are only 8 regionals Archived (Lansing is available here firstvideoarchive.com).

Are people having issues getting video online or parsing. Either way please post if you are having problems. Many teams use these videos for fund raising and showing parents what FIRST is all about.

-Mike AA

I think most of it is just do to time constraints - I've done FLR and Buckeye (for the years 191 have gone in the past) but this year I have a baby on the way so Josh Goodman had volunteered to parse them this year for me after I recorded the FLR regional. Somehow we'll figure out a system so that this is taken care of just like webcasting in the future.

It's getting better but with all the economy slow downs and layoffs there's probably more important things on people's minds lately.

[Joe Ross]

I just uploaded the semifinals and finals from Las Vegas to TBA.

I will probably not get a chance to parse the rest for several weeks. The unparsed video is 7.7 gigs. Anyone want to take a shot at it?

[ATannahill]

I'm busy this week but if no one finishes it before Sunday I might be able to take it next week.

What would be nice is a server where one person posts unparsed videos and (after approved by mods) anyone can download and parse them up to post back to the server. Mods could then check to make sure it is not spam, then give to TBA or Soap.

PS. spam means irrelevant nonsense, I have nothing against team 180, who helped us win two competitions.

[dani190]

i have video for waterloo regional and toronto regional and will be parsing asap (probably starting tomorrow). So hopefully i can get some stuff up soon.

[Mike AA]

Originally Posted by rtfgnow

I'm busy this week but if no one finishes it before Sunday I might be able to take it next week.

What would be nice is a server where one person posts unparsed videos and (after approved by mods) anyone can download and parse them up to post back to the server. Mods could then check to make sure it is not spam, then give to TBA or Soap.

PS. spam means irrelevant nonsense, I have nothing against team 180, who helped us win two competitions.

Well if anyone would like to do this just PM me, I will put up a live directory and PM FTP info. If you DO send video PLEASE put it under a directory with the regional name!

EDIT: Here is the link to random unparsed video http://firstvideoarchive.com/firstupload. Just download the video file then PM me for the upload password

[keneajer]

Just wondering if u did archived one of the regional(s) would u put them on your teams web site or send it to the blue allience or both?

[dani190]

il probably do both

[Manoel]

OK, I'm currently uploading the NASA VCU files to The Blue Alliance's FTP, how do I get them to SOAP - or do they download everything directly from TBA (my ISP would certainly appreciate not having to upload everything twice)?

[Mike AA]

Originally Posted by Manoel

OK, I'm currently uploading the NASA VCU files to The Blue Alliance's FTP, how do I get them to SOAP - or do they download everything directly from TBA (my ISP would certainly appreciate not having to upload everything twice)?

Just upload them to TBA they will get copied over to FVA (firstvideoarchive) which is now what soap points to.

Mike AA

[Joe Ross]

I'm uploading the unparsed Las Vegas to first video archive http://firstvideoarchive.com/firstup...as%20Unparsed/. Since I'm on a relatively slow internet connection, it won't finish until at least Wednesday morning, but the first few files are already up.

[Greg Marra]

Originally Posted by Joe Ross

I'm uploading the unparsed Las Vegas to first video archive http://firstvideoarchive.com/firstup...as%20Unparsed/. Since I'm on a relatively slow internet connection, it probably won't finish until at least tomorrow night, but the first few files are already up.

Some parsed Las Vegas (NV) is on its way up to TBA right now. If you go to edit this, make sure not to duplicate effort

[ATannahill]

I'll see how much I can download and parse on the plain on the plane on Wednesday.

[Pjohn1959]

Do you know when Lone Star will be done?

[rspurlin]

I've got selected matches from the 2009 Palmetto Regional as detailed in the 2009 Palmetto thread. They're currently huge as they're straight off my camera in AVI format, but I can transcode them to whatever you want. All are 640 x 480.

If someone can PM me with details you can have them all.

[ATannahill]

What programs do people use to convert .mp4 to .wmv for windows movie maker?