Archiving Regionals Video 2009

[CSideris28]

Does anyone know when the rest of the Connecticut Regional footage will be available? Currently only the first day of matches is up on TBA.

[Joe Ross]

Originally Posted by Greg Marra

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

Are you referring to the semifinals and finals I uploaded already (and mentioned earlier in this thread), or did someone already start parsing the stuff I uploaded to firstvideoarchive?

Originally Posted by rtfgnow

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

I used avidemux on linux. I'm not sure what people use on windows, but if possible, it would be best to keep it as mp4 and avoid transcoding to wmv.

[ATannahill]

Originally Posted by Joe Ross

Are you referring to the semifinals and finals I uploaded already (and mentioned earlier in this thread), or did someone already start parsing the stuff I uploaded to firstvideoarchive?



I used avidemux on linux. I'm not sure what people use on windows, but if possible, it would be best to keep it as mp4 and avoid transcoding to wmv.

Windows movie maker does not take mp4, could you point me in the direction of a free software that does take mp4?

[Vikesrock]

Originally Posted by rtfgnow

Windows movie maker does not take mp4, could you point me in the direction of a free software that does take mp4?

I use a program called meGUI and two other pieces of software that expand it's video compatibility. Just a warning, it is not the most user friendly software out there.

AVIsynth and FFDShow allow meGUI to work with different types of media and should both be installed before meGUI.

After installing AVIsynth and ffdshow you can install meGUI.

The first time you run meGui you will need to create a worker under the Worker menu. I also recommend checking the "Autostart Queue" under Options->Settings.

My parsing procedure is to open the video using the meGUI File->Open. If the video is not directly compatible with meGUI this automatically opens a dialog to create an AVISynth script. I crop here if necessary and then save the script. You can also deinterlace during this step if necessary by setting the source type to Interlaced and checking the Deinterlace box on the "Filters" tab.

Next I open AVS Cutter from the Tools menu and select the newly created AVS file. Find the beginning of the desired clip in the window and click "Zone Start" find the end of the clip and click "Zone End", then click Set to set the zone. Repeat for the score if desired. After your desired cuts are set click "Do All and Close" in the non-video window.

I am not very familiar with encoder settings so mine might not be ideal, but I set the video to "x264: CE-Baseline". In the "Cuts" section of the audio select the .clt file that corresponds to the video you are editing. For Audio Encoder I use "Nero AAC: NDAAC - iPod - Good".

Click AutoEncode and set the Average Bitrate to 1000kbits/s.

Then rinse and repeat.

[Manoel]

Originally Posted by Mike AA

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

Mike AA

Everything's been uploaded, feel free to copy it - especially since TBA doesn't link to awards and such, and many teams like to have copies of it.

[Kevin Sevcik]

I'm the weak link in the Peachtree/Lonestar video chain. I've been unexpectedly busy at work, and this week I'll be packing up house for a big move saturday. I should be able to get to things early next week.

I don't think uploading my unparsed video is quite as practical as for some people, as it's stupid high quality so I can do a decent job deinterlacing it and still have something useful to compress down to the TBA format and a set of larger MPGs for teams to use for their own purposes.

[Kevin Kolodziej]

Wisconsin has been digitized and will be sent around for parsing this evening. I'm hoping to get all files uploaded by the end of the weekend.

[bobwrit]

Apparently, Colorado School of Mines has an archive of Colorado somewhere, but I can't find it. I'll continue searching, but it is there.

[synth3tk]

I appreciate Team 48 for archiving and streaming the regional, but I pray that next season, they don't use FLV. It's a huge hassle. I've yet to find a good program (commercial or free) that can successfully convert the files. Had it been another standard, Buckeye would be up by now.

Anyway, I'm probably just going to upload them somewhere soon.

[Vikesrock]

Originally Posted by synth3tk

I appreciate Team 48 for archiving and streaming the regional, but I pray that next season, they don't use FLV. It's a huge hassle. I've yet to find a good program (commercial or free) that can successfully convert the files. Had it been another standard, Buckeye would be up by now.

Anyway, I'm probably just going to upload them somewhere soon.

I am at a regional this weekend and I have midterms all next week, but after that I may be able to convert these for you. I tested the method I use on an FLV and it appeared to work.

[mtaman02]

I have NJ Day 2 and All days for Finger Lakes

downside is it's a huge *** file so to get it out to the central archiving area will be a hassle =P

I use My Video Converter for Windows

[dani190]

does anyone want to help with waterloo and GTA regionals? I doubt il have the time before championships and i know people are waiting for them to go online...

[Mike AA]

Originally Posted by mtaman02

I have NJ Day 2 and All days for Finger Lakes

downside is it's a huge *** file so to get it out to the central archiving area will be a hassle =P

I use My Video Converter for Windows

How huge is huge? 2GB?

[mtaman02]

umm big lets leave it at that lol...

Now I know why they came out with Terabyte drives

I didn't have time to scale back the quality since I was busy doing WPA / Spare Parts and Field Related work.

NJ (Sat) 15.6GB WMV Format
ROC (Thu, Fri & Sat) 30GB Total WMV Format

If you can scale back the quality you'll def. get a smaller file size but I'm hardly home to really "sit" with it or to just set it and forget it.

[synth3tk]

Originally Posted by Vikesrock

I am at a regional this weekend and I have midterms all next week, but after that I may be able to convert these for you. I tested the method I use on an FLV and it appeared to work.

I've been running FTP uploads and torrents at nights recently. I'll probably do these tonight.