Israel Webcast

[Mike Hendricks]

Originally Posted by ForgottenSalad

Out of curiosity, where are you pulling the video from to put it into the video capture card? From one of your own cameras? Or from the big-screen video feed at the regional?

They're pulled from the big screen feed.

[soap108]

Originally Posted by PhatMike

They're pulled from the big screen feed.

Exactly. At every event there is a "break-out" box with A/V outputs. Any team can hook up their vcr/whatever.

Nasa had additionally setup "goal cams" in florida, and sent us one of those feeds. We brought a video switcher box with us so we could switch video inputs at any time.

KA-108

[savage]

you are right 1 tb is way to much i was just saying that because if you export to avi it takes up more space but i do think that 350 gig should be fine
if you do record with dv- cpu are you going to record streight to the end or are you planning on stopping betweek matches
also if at the competition they have there own tv cameras you might whant to consinder tapping in to there system so that way you get difrent camera angles
aslo just for refrence i talked to teams back home and they we wourdring if irael was webcasting about 5 teams asked me
ben

[Mike Hendricks]

Direct DV capturing seems like overkill for something thats going to be compressed and uploaded to the net anyways. My camcorders capture about 3 megabytes a second of video ..

Using a normal VCR hooked into the video system (which you can do .. just talk to the video person at the event) and a long tape will work fine. Just hit the record button before they start, and get the tape at the end of the day. Then use an analog capture card and some editing software (even a computer with Windows Media Center would work fine) and edit and compress the videos.

If you're REALLY determined to webcast it, contact your sponsers. You'd be suprised what some of your sponsers have access to/are capable of doing.