Join The Blue Alliance and FIRSTCast for our LIVE! (to tape) coverage of the 2007 FIRST Kickoff! We headed up to Manchester, NH to see the announcement of the 2007 FIRST game, and we brought a film crew along. Whether you’re on one of the teams that was able to go to the official kickoff event or not, you’re going to want to check this out.
Some of the highlights of the show are:
Find out what the Manchester Kickoff Event is actually like! We give you the behind the scenes and show you what you don’t get to see on NASA’s broadcast.
See how NASA does the webcast, and their redundant systems to make sure you can see their feed!
Check out our hands-on with this year’s game elements and field. We show you close up what this year’s robots will be playing with to help you better design your bots. We demonstrate the complex reactions of the Rack to robots and tubes, and some of the added challenges this year’s game offers drivers.
We have an interview with a very special FIRST guest, Paul Gudonis!. Find out more about FIRST and the direction of engineering in America!
We’ve been editing up a storm and the episode is online now! That’s right, we were crazy enough to drive to New Hampshire, film a show, drive back, edit it, and post it, all in the same day! :ahh:
There is also a Google Video version of the episode. You don’t even need to download anything to watch. Visit our page to watch it right on our page or download higher quality versions.
Spread the word to your friends and people on other teams who might not read Chief Delphi regularly. This episode might help them out! Visit our page for download links and (shortly) the YouTube video!
it turns out you can’t edit posts after 24 hours… sorry for two threads.
YES! This is what I have been waiting for all day… Its hard to see what moves and what doesn’t and stuff from looking at the images in the PDF… Awesome guys!
EDIT: After watching, this video is very informative on the field elements. Like how much the “rack” will move, how the bungee chords are positioned in the chute, etc… AWESOME!
Grats. Honestly I was excited. I am not a big FIRSTCast person but I did listen to the interviews and I was impressed. That and the pumbing thing were pretty informative. I have been looking forward to this. Thanks for the hard work.
You have Gregs audio feed playing on the right speaker and the guest on the left. Instead of playing them on both. It gets annoying in a way. Maybe dont do it in the future. Good episode though. It tunred out nice, espesially in the amount of time you had.
about the panning… we did that so we had separate audio tracks for each mic to edit independently afterwards. and for some reason we didn’t combine the audio back into both channels
I’ll post the behind the scenes look of The Blue Alliance & FIRST Cast going behind the scenes of Kickoff 2007 I was filming as I was walking by when I get a chance to convert/compress and then upload it somewhere.
After personally seeing just how much work these guys put into their video, I have a big apprecation for seeing the final video. Producing such a great, very informative and well structured video in such a short amount of time takes a lot of skill and dedication.
I really think you guys do an awesome job and truly care about the spirit of FIRST.
because youtube only allows 10 minute videos without out a directors account it will not be on youtube. however it is currently being prepared for posting on Google video.
The Google Video version of the video is online. Now you don’t even need to download anything to watch. Click here to watch the episode on Google Video, or visit our page to download higher quality versions.
I downloaded the iPod version before it hit google video, and in the middle of the interview with Paul Gudonis, i got a very LOUD beep, and from then on the audio was off.
Otherwise, it’s awesome. I can’t wait to show the team on monday, so they get more of an idea of how the rack moves.
Yay! i saw myself, haha. well, because i saw the part i was in (I was the long-haired kid describing the map in the beginning), i shouldnt comment on that. but great job on teh rest of the video, very informative, very well editted, and great footage. but as for the speaker channel problem… yeah, its something to fix for the next video you put out. again, great job
(and just wait til you see the map we have for nationals )
For at least the iPod version (now encoded by Google Video, and not Videora), there should be no audio channel issues, nor random loud beeps. The other two versions both have their audio channels fixed as well, so the disorientation should be gone.
Turns out Greg didn’t check which speaker was wired to the right channel and which to the left while editing
