6A26 Proposal

Field Hockey Video on the Web

Project Goal: to extend the MIT community to have access on the web to live video or partial recordings of current events on campus, particularly sports.
The initial step is to set up a digital video camera to use for filming games with field hockey as a test case. This way alumni, parents, and others can have a better sense of what is going on besides a score. This can later be extended to other sports and activities around campus. It could also be useful for living groups for rush purposes.

Problems

• better quality video?
• refresh rate/live/recorded previously??
• plug ins?
• connections/protection
• support?

Short Term Goals

The present goal so that this project is quantifiable, is to put some pre-recorded video of a field hockey game. The video clips will be in 10-20 second clips so as not to make them too long for the proposed audience - the parents and other people not on the MIT campus with slower internet connections.

Progress

So far:

• I had someone tape the field hockey game (Oct. 30 vs. Clark)
• I've watched the entire tape and chosen short clips of good plays, etc.
• I've started to capture portions of the video, and then compress, edit, and save them. I believe I've saved two because the one I tried after that had a problem with the actual tape and made it jump.
• I've saved about six movie clips, and I am ready to start figuring out how to transfer them to the web page template I've created.

Currently

• I will be working again on the project right before the seminar meeting on Monday Nov. 17, and trying to edit and save more video.
  
• I have also started to create a site for the video on the 6a26 locker.

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