Game Footage-Usefull Tool?

[Laaba 80]

Originally Posted by Chris is me

My team(s) haven't really done that. Feedback on driving performance is usually done immediately after the match for 10 to 20 minutes in the pits, where our "strategy council" and the drive team meet and talk about what went well and what didn't at the match. Thursday isn't really too serious for us (especially because the robot isn't always "working" then), Friday nights are reserved for alliance selection discussion, and after that the event's over so it'll be on webcast (if, like me, you watch the same match over and over and over again and carefully analyze everything you did wrong and could do better. *grr why do empty cell hiders hide the cells*)

For after the event I usually wish there was video footage...

This was actually the first year that 1714 didnt take video of the matches and watch it right after. Im not really sure why we didnt do it this year.

[Matt Howard]

Originally Posted by Dantvman27

I was wondering how many teams tape their matches thursday(and possibly friday) and actually sit down as a drive team and watch the footage to help driving, like a football team might. Our team tapes all of our matches but its mostly for memory videos/promotional material,. Just wanted some feed back on if anyone does this and how helpful, and any tips on doing so

Recorded game footage is about 5 steps beyond useful. We try to refer to it as much as we can.

[,4lex S.]

This year in New Jersey, we were allowed to bolt a digital camera to the front of our robot and take video of the match. It was about 10x as effective for impressing sponsors, and I would advise you try it.

Sadly, our team broke up and I have been unable to located the video to show, but it was epic. It showed very good detail of how our robot was on the offence.

[Sagar Vyas]

In 2006-2007, 1503 occasionally reviewed matches from the day to help scout and even help the drivers strategize. Not sure if the team does that anymore but it was definitely useful to refer to matches for coaching and scouting.

Afterward, I would usually achieve, cut up the matches and post them on SOAP108.

The more efficient way to do this was via a DVD recorder setup at the main feed, it took about 2-3 DVDs/day in good quality.

[cnepo]

On our team, we find that reviewing video as an extremely useful tool. A mentor would record every match and keep notes on the things we did right/wrong and we would review it right after the match was over and discuss what we would do to improve our driving after every match. At the end of the day, we have a little drive team meeting and review the highs and lows of our matches as far as a drive team perspective and talk about driving strategies that we could implement to improve on our driving.

[Paul Copioli]

Throughout the course of 2005 - 2009, we have watched about 30 hours per year of driver film. 90% of the footage is specifically of our robot. I have found that when the drivers watch themselves they find many things to improve upon.

[Meredith Novak]

I bought a nice (and cheap) little HD video camera that we used in the 2009 season to record every match. The matches were put on a laptop and indexed to teams through a simple spreadsheet. We could show the drive team what they were up against in real time and it made the scouting meetings much more productive. John Taylor did the filming with a tripod and most of the storing/indexing was done by only one other student. It was hard and tedious work, but they were careful and dedicated and did a terrific and useful job.

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[Daniel_LaFleur]

Originally Posted by ,4lex S.

This year in New Jersey, we were allowed to bolt a digital camera to the front of our robot and take video of the match. It was about 10x as effective for impressing sponsors, and I would advise you try it.

Sadly, our team broke up and I have been unable to located the video to show, but it was epic. It showed very good detail of how our robot was on the offence.

We were able to capture video from the axis camera at WPI.

The video is here.

It's very good footage to show potential sponsors ... and kinda fun to see a 'robots eye' view of the game.