2009 Greater Toronto Regional

[Racer26]

Thanks 781, we sat behind you guys at Waterloo and watched you win the spirit award there. We decided we wanted to win it at GTR and ramped the game up to suit that goal. Behind the scenes we were trying for the safety award too but yet again got beat out by 1141 (the last THREE official events we've been to (i think 4, actually) they won the safety award).

Yea it's a fun event that's for sure and an intelligent fun event, and I often think as I wander around the pits if we only had "one" of these teams as our engineering dept stuff would actually work back at the station

Years ago stations actually would send cameras and reporters down to the states or wherever for stuff like that but not these days, it would bring them higher ratings and it's not really that expensive if you do it right.

Originally Posted by Vince lau

Glad you liked your first FIRST experience and that you keep coming back. If only your station sent you down to Atlanta to cover the Canadian teams. Picture the Georgia dome filled with students, teachers, mentors, parents, 4 fields, and a huge pit that's like a 10 minute walk away.

If you have FTP that would be perfect, as soon as I get the RAW video onto my system I can just set the files to start uploading the same way I do with the stuff I shoot for the weather network, I have stuff from waterloo and GTR, it's all RAW news footage and nothing is in any particular order but there is a fair bit of video.

FTP is a bit easier than yousendit.com because one little hiccup and you have to start over again whereas FTP just auto-resumes.

mark

Originally Posted by Malice

To 1075, wow. The shift in the amount of spirit that you guys gave out to your team was pretty niice. You were all pretty quiet at Waterloo too! Look at you guys at GTR now. Also, that conducting man was a good idea! (: It's a shame that most of our spirit team were either sick or were tired at GTR.

To Mark Rozitis, thank you for offering the coverage of our team! It would be awesome if you could get that to everyone. I doubt that you will be able to send much through yousendit.com though (100mb max if I remembered correctly).

You mentioned something about FTP, so I'm assuming you can use it? If so, then how about I set up a directory for you so you can upload these videos for everyone? We have quite a lot of bandwidth and disc space and i'm pretty sure we have enough to share.

Thank you. (:

I know I still have all the raw video and the clips, looking like this sunday morning is when I will get in all into my laptop and then I can make DVD or FTP video out, I'll probably start loading the video into the computer Friday night actually.

So I talk that fast eh? wonder if that's why no one can ever understand me?

You should hear some of the short form and stuff we use in news as we are racing to active incidents and stuff or listen to the dispatchers on the scanners.....that's probably where I picked it up actually talking that fast, I normally don't say much and then there are these short data bursts



Actually it would have been so much easier if I had a reporter or someone else with me asking the questions....I'm terrible at it, i'm technical/nerd/camera.....not reporter but the producers now want me getting clips too

m

Originally Posted by Nick Lawrence

I would love to see some of those Earth Hour clips, after all, they did pull me aside to interview me. Boy, did that guy talk really fast, he managed to fit "Why do you think Earth Hour is important?" in two seconds off camera.

Also, if there is any b-roll stuff of 1503, I'd love to have it for keepsake purposes, but also for possible future use in promotional items.

[Malice]

1141 did do a really nice job with safety. They had a pretty clean pit if I remember correctly from Waterloo. They also hosted a raffle for a safety kit with a fire extinguisher at Waterloo. Our safety captain enthusiastically received that! (:

Mark Rozitis, I have sent you a private message with the ftp information and I hope you would upload your videos onto our server when you are ready! If there's anything else we could do for you, please ask. (: Thank you very much for doing this for us, again!

Got it and the waterloo and some mississauga GTR stuff is already on the way up. Go Modem!!!!

Originally Posted by Malice

1141 did do a really nice job with safety. They had a pretty clean pit if I remember correctly from Waterloo. They also hosted a raffle for a safety kit with a fire extinguisher at Waterloo. Our safety captain enthusiastically received that! (:

Mark Rozitis, I have sent you a private message with the ftp information and I hope you would upload your videos onto our server when you are ready! If there's anything else we could do for you, please ask. (: Thank you very much for doing this for us, again!

[Malice]

Hmm, i don't see anything. Make sure you are uploading to the folder "uploads.team781.com"? Thanks (:!

Originally Posted by Malice

Hmm, i don't see anything. Make sure you are uploading to the folder "uploads.team781.com"? Thanks (:!

The first batch of waterloo and GTR stuff is on it's way up to you now one by one, there was a technical error I discovered this morning, looks like there was and operator error but it's all going up to that folder now as far as I can see, one by one the files are uploading and there is smoke coming off the modem so it's looking like things are all good now on my end.

Next I will load the rest of the GTR stuff into the system and send that up on the weekend.

mark

[Malice]

Some videos taken by Mark Rozitis have been uploaded! Download them here in high quality! Make sure you have lots of space freed up on your computer before you start your download.

[dani190]

Originally Posted by Malice

Some videos taken by Mark Rozitis have been uploaded! Download them here in high quality! Make sure you have lots of space freed up on your computer before you start your download.

and bandwidth!
lol

[Racer26]

much appreciated, but WOW those files are big... perhaps someone on 781 could use virtualdubmod or similar to remix them down into .mpg files, they'll be a lot less cumbersome on the 781 server, and a lot faster for everyone to download.

EDIT: I'm currently downloading the ~200MB file, and getting 60Kb/sec on my Rogers 10Mbps service... The strain on team781.com's server must be pretty big.

Re-EDIT: VirtualDubMod can be found here, is free and open-source, I believe.

The reason my files are so big is they are captured right out of the camera with VirtualDub at .avi, HQ broadcast grade right from the Sony XDHD cam.

Since they do everything for me at both stations I shoot for I don't have as much experience as I should with the different formats as well as editing although I made a comment to Bill Holtby at GTR that I would learn to edit by next year's regionals, well I guess I'm learning to edit



I used sony vegas movie studio 8 and rendered one of the files to mpeg2 and it didn't look as good, I then tried .wma and it looked quite good. I need to learn and experiment more and figure this all out.

I'll check out the link you posted once I get home, I'm on the blackberry now.

The last file should be up on 781 by 8:30pm.

I have the same rogers service as you I think and I'm uploading at 124k/s so could just be that we've slowed down the whole internet

If they won't download or are too big I suppose it could render them all to .wma's.

There is a fair bit of 1075 in almost each one of the GTR clips and more of 781 in the waterloo clips.

Then again if you're going to use the raw video to edit some promo videos together you have the HQ stuff so that's good.

M

Originally Posted by 1075guy

much appreciated, but WOW those files are big... perhaps someone on 781 could use virtualdubmod or similar to remix them down into .mpg files, they'll be a lot less cumbersome on the 781 server, and a lot faster for everyone to download.

EDIT: I'm currently downloading the ~200MB file, and getting 60Kb/sec on my Rogers 10Mbps service... The strain on team781.com's server must be pretty big.

Re-EDIT: VirtualDubMod can be found here, is free and open-source, I believe.

[cpeister]

Originally Posted by 1075guy

much appreciated, but WOW those files are big... perhaps someone on 781 could use virtualdubmod or similar to remix them down into .mpg files, they'll be a lot less cumbersome on the 781 server, and a lot faster for everyone to download.

EDIT: I'm currently downloading the ~200MB file, and getting 60Kb/sec on my Rogers 10Mbps service... The strain on team781.com's server must be pretty big.

Re-EDIT: VirtualDubMod can be found here, is free and open-source, I believe.

Actually, I am delighted that team781.com is still moving as fast as ever, despite the strain.

Edit: I am not the webbie, but I believe we have an insane amount of bandwidth.

[Malice]

I'm pretty sure our web server can take the strain. For the price we pay every year, it better be able to take it... ):

To 1075guy, if you would like, I can convert the videos to .mpg and upload those for you to download.

I tried converting one of those bigger files into a small .avi file (using Total Video Converter). The 9:18 clip went from 1.9GB to 141MB. The quality isn't as good in comparison, but it's decent... and the size remains the same at 720x480.

I tried to use VirtualDubMod like recommended, but it gave me errors when I attempted to open a file- "Couldn't locate decompressor for format 'dvsd' (unknown)."

I'm uploading the smaller files at uploads.team781.com/small/... They're still .avi files, but their quality is just bumped down a bit.

Cheers! (:

Edit: Just a note that the videos will not be uploaded in order.

[Flyin' Axe]

Originally Posted by Malice

I'm pretty sure our web server can take the strain. For the price we pay every year, it better be able to take it... ):

To 1075guy, if you would like, I can convert the videos to .mpg and upload those for you to download.

I tried converting one of those bigger files into a small .avi file (using Total Video Converter). The 9:18 clip went from 1.9GB to 141MB. The quality isn't as good in comparison, but it's decent... and the size remains the same at 720x480.

I tried to use VirtualDubMod like recommended, but it gave me errors when I attempted to open a file- "Couldn't locate decompressor for format 'dvsd' (unknown)."

I'm uploading the smaller files at uploads.team781.com/small/... They're still .avi files, but their quality is just bumped down a bit.

Cheers! (:

Edit: Just a note that the videos will not be uploaded in order.

Can you please post a description of each video. Like what the video is about??

Thanks you very much for hosting these amazing videos!!