The Year with no Archived Video

[Jonathan Norris]

I'll be recording Pittsburg and GTR this year, I may be able to record Saturday of Waterloo also. Sorry I haven't been able to push for more recordings like previous years, helping to run a team while in 3rd year of my Mechanical Engineering degree can keep one busy... Hopefully someone can step up and help organize the recording/parsing efforts.

Originally Posted by Jonathan Norris

I'll be recording Pittsburg and GTR this year, I may be able to record Saturday of Waterloo also. Sorry I haven't been able to push for more recordings like previous years, helping to run a team while in 3rd year of my Mechanical Engineering degree can keep one busy... Hopefully someone can step up and help organize the recording/parsing efforts.

I may be able to hook up one of those pinnacle devices and a external drive for the whole thing as well if needed to record the production company feed, I am not sure how all that works as I've never used that equipment but I'm sure I can figure it out, when I am shooting with my news camera I don't record every match, I look for action shots all over the place as I wander around in the pits, stands and field and just shoot on and off and of course a lot of the cheering and stuff that goes on in the stands.

I'm assuming with the pinnacle device you take in composite video and mic level audio and connect a 1TB hard drive and it just records it all as one file if you leave it running all day?

I've never really played with that stuff so I don't know, I'm also assuming AC power is needed?

[Kevin Kolodziej]

I will once again be recording the Wisconsin Regional this year. I may need help with the parsing...silly job gets in the way of these important things!

[Vikesrock]

Originally Posted by Kevin Kolodziej

I will once again be recording the Wisconsin Regional this year. I may need help with the parsing...silly job gets in the way of these important things!

I can definitely help parse Wisconsin as I'll be on Spring Break next week and have a vested interest in getting that footage done

[Manoel]

Originally Posted by Mark Rozitis

I'm assuming with the pinnacle device you take in composite video and mic level audio and connect a 1TB hard drive and it just records it all as one file if you leave it running all day?

I've never really played with that stuff so I don't know, I'm also assuming AC power is needed?

Yes, AC power is needed (and supplied on the AV table) for the Pinnacle Video Transfer.

You have to be careful, though, in leaving it unattended (see that happened to us last year) as there's a limit on how big (or long, or something else, I don't know) the file can be.

[Greg Marra]

Originally Posted by Manoel

You have to be careful, though, in leaving it unattended (see that happened to us last year) as there's a limit on how big (or long, or something else, I don't know) the file can be.

It's probably hitting the 4GB file size cap of FAT32 formatted disks. Just make sure to stop and restart it (although I can't tell you how often).

[ATannahill]

I'll echo the offers to help with post-recording production.

[Brandon_L]

If you want specifics, I'll do day 3

My team wants to see the vids up on TBA really bad.

[seannoseworthy]

I will be able to record everyday at Waterloo with my pinnacle video transfer and a 500GB hard drive. Also the PVT should only record up to 4GB on a FAT32 disk or up to 1GB on a FAT16 disk, once these limits are reached the device should create a new file and it will keep recording

Originally Posted by seannoseworthy

I will be able to record everyday at Waterloo with my pinnacle video transfer and a 500GB hard drive. Also the PVT should only record up to 4GB on a FAT32 disk or up to 1GB on a FAT16 disk, once these limits are reached the device should create a new file and it will keep recording

What is the video quality like off those Pinnacle video transfer units? and the file size in H:264, for example 5 minutes of video on the highest quality settings would be what file size?

I might pick one up this weekend to experiment with, I guess is only has composite input though and no firewire?

mark

[Manoel]

Originally Posted by Mark Rozitis

What is the video quality like off those Pinnacle video transfer units? and the file size in H:264, for example 5 minutes of video on the highest quality settings would be what file size?

I might pick one up this weekend to experiment with, I guess is only has composite input though and no firewire?

mark

Video quality is pretty decent, I'd say as good as it gets with a composite output. The highest quality outputs interlaced video and, in my opinion, is only marginally better than the intermediate setting - and because of that, medium quality is what I use for all my recordings.

As for size, this week I recorded one hour and forty five minutes of a Brazil vs. Netherlands match in the '74 World Cup and the file came out slightly smaller than 1 GB.

[DonRotolo]

Originally Posted by thefro526

Here's video of Final Matches 2 and 3 to hold you over

Thanks for that link. Now I see exactly when a ball went over the red alliance wall without hitting the ball return counter, just after when George (the announcer) says "just over a minute left".

THAT's why we got 14 points in penalties...

Originally Posted by Manoel

Video quality is pretty decent, I'd say as good as it gets with a composite output. The highest quality outputs interlaced video and, in my opinion, is only marginally better than the intermediate setting - and because of that, medium quality is what I use for all my recordings.

As for size, this week I recorded one hour and forty five minutes of a Brazil vs. Netherlands match in the '74 World Cup and the file came out slightly smaller than 1 GB.

Based on that file size I think I might just pick up one of these Pinnacle devices this weekend and experiment with it and see what it can do, too bad it doesn't take firewire input as well.

[dpraedan]

I'm responsible for running video production at the WPI regional. I'm logging the program output to raw DV, so the footage for the entire event will likely total ~350 GB. I don't have the time to cut it up, and at that size, it's impractical to upload to an FTP server, but I'd gladly pass off a copy to someone willing to make the trek to Worcester. Just shoot me a PM if you're interested.

--Dan Praetorius

[Chris is me]

Originally Posted by dpraedan

I'm responsible for running video production at the WPI regional. I'm logging the program output to raw DV, so the footage for the entire event will likely total ~350 GB. I don't have the time to cut it up, and at that size, it's impractical to upload to an FTP server, but I'd gladly pass off a copy to someone willing to make the trek to Worcester. Just shoot me a PM if you're interested.

--Dan Praetorius

How fast can you make copies?