Match Recording Idea

[,4lex S.]

Perhaps this would be a good role for a volunteer team member at every event in FIRST. If you had a program where the volunteers controlled the recording, and had prompts to input match number, it should work ok. This is obviously to the benefit of FIRST, especially since TBA is a major potential recruiting tool for new sponsors and partners, so I don't know why they haven't been more supportive.

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Originally Posted by ahecht

I would think that the match start and stop sounds would be consistent enough that you could write a program that would detect the trumpet and buzzer and trim the recording appropriately. You could train the program from FMS Lite.

You probably could do that, which might be a way of reverse engineering the start/stop of a match.

Originally Posted by Sagar Vyas

Personally, I don't think the hardest part is editing the video after it has been recorded, but instead to find a team/person at each regional who is willing to setup a DVR or recording device to capture them.

It might not be, but the hard part to me is wondering what the heck I do with two days worth of video? Uploading via FTP to TBA is ok, but still takes forever and half to do it if you don't have a fantastic internet connection.

If the process can be made easier, especially with a specific list of "this is what you need and here's how you do it" I bet a lot more people would be willing to record matches especially if at the end of the day we say that they can look back through the day at a specific match in a few seconds.

Originally Posted by ,4lex S.

Perhaps this would be a good role for a volunteer team member at every event in FIRST. If you had a program where the volunteers controlled the recording, and had prompts to input match number, it should work ok. This is obviously to the benefit of FIRST, especially since TBA is a major potential recruiting tool for new sponsors and partners, so I don't know why they haven't been more supportive.

You probably could do that. I would think this would be a second option after listening to the match sounds, but I'm not sure how long it would take until the volunteer goes "why isn't the field doing this for me?".

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