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"Ryan":3482jdqa wrote:"Kyle":3482jdqa wrote:Just a note. I spoke to Bode tonight about this. She thinks the commentary radio is exciting, all good. She doesn’t want video going up on the web until the end of the season, as the other teams will use it to prep for playing against us, and we don’t want to give the Auckland teams that advantage.
[/quote:3482jdqa]Are you serious? If that’s the case then I won’t bother.
[/quote:3482jdqa]Yup I’m serious. I thought it might be a concern for her, that’s why I asked her. New team, lots of these players – particularly goalie – that no one has seen before. If any of the other teams posted video footage online, you’d bet she’d be looking at it to try and figure them out.
She is very keen for you to video it for coaching purposes though. She’ll probably want a wide view, from the stand at the end of the rink, rather than closeups.
"Kyle":2c8d2cut wrote:She is very keen for you to video it for coaching purposes though. She’ll probably want a wide view, from the stand at the end of the rink, rather than closeups.
[/quote:2c8d2cut]No. Not worth the effort.
If I’m feeling particularly energetic I might do the Canterbury game if I’m allowed to post it online, albeit limited to viewing by Dunedin players only. It’ll depend if I can be bothered or not though, chances are I won’t.
Can the above comments. Karen Nicholas just emailed me, apparently Al has discussed this with Bode and it’s all sorted. I’ll do the videos as intended and turn it into a DVD. It’ll be available to the Thunder team and to Auckland if they’re willing to pay for a DVD copy (and anyone else who wants it).
I’ll post a brief highlights clip to advertise the DVD, that’s it. Nothing that will be of use to other teams, just some short clips of the Thunder kicking ass at low res.
We appologize again for the no commentary. We couldn’t get it working in time. Maybe for next game…probably would have gotten several angry letters anyways over what was said after that craptacular officiating job.
Twaz a bummer
” title=”Sad” /> I was looking forward to tuning in and clipping it all together with the video footage. It was a good idea at least. I guess deciding it’s a good idea a day or so before the game doesn’t help.Rhys tested the radio today though and the signal worked around the whole rink, so hopefully it’s up and running for next time.
If you guys can get some decent commentary going, then all we need are some decent cameras (three would do I think), then find a club member who’s into videography and I don’t think it’s unreasonable that a broadcast (channel 9 level atleast) footage could be made. I can’t remember the exact pricing, but it’s something like 100th of the price to have something shown on Channel 9 if you do all of the filming, editing and commentary yourself. Just a thought for the future … of course finding someone who is willing (and has some skill) to burn the midnight oil messing about with video editing would not be particularly easy.
I found this site tonight and it looks like something we could consider in the future …
Using that service, it would be (in theory) fairly trivial to setup a live video broadcast of a hockey game. All we’d need is a beefy wireless router which can cover the entire rink and some laptops connected to a few video cameras. The video feeds can be clipped and audio commentary added on the fly to create full live video coverage of the event.
All we need is two video cameras which can output a live feed, most modern cameras should be able to do this I think. Then a beefy wireless router (~$500 I think) and possibly an upgraded broadband connection at the rink plus a few laptops sending the live video by WiFi back to the main computer for output to the web.
The only tricky problem with the site above, is that we would need to upload the two live camera feeds plus the audio feed all at the same time, ready for processing elsewhere. It would be a lot less bandwidth intensive if we could cut them together before uploading. But the bandwidth used wouldn’t be too bad if we were only uploading 320×240 25fps.
… just a thought for the future.
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