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Originally Posted by JS 20
Our local associationg will be doing a serious overhaul of training and evaluations in the near future. We will hopefully be incorporating a lot of video into the training as well as the evaluation of our officials. Do any of your associations use this? If so, do you know what kind of cameras they use for this? We would need something that's high quality enough to be able to disect the plays, but affordable for us as well. Need one where games can easily burned to a disc afterwards. Thanks!
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One of our conferences in Central Ohio is doing extensive in-person observations of their crews (we work exclusively in crews for many of our conferences in Central Ohio). One of my sons has videotaped our games a couple of times. We have found this to be very valuable since he videotapes the officiating crew as opposed to the game. He videos the officials on all violations, foul calls, foul reports, time outs, etc. He also makes sure to get the three of us in the video whenever possible. Our crew has found this tool to be exceptionally valuable.
I would recommend getting an HD camera. While Sony camcorders tend to be expensive, they are also very good in low level lighting situations -- much better than Canon or Panasonic, for example. Therefore, they tend to work well even in the older, darker gyms. Sony has camcorders in the $450 range that are HD, work well in low lighting and can record to memory cards or hard disks on the camcorders. These files can then be copied fairly easily to a DVD. For another $160, you can buy a Sony recorder that takes all need for brain function out of creating a DVD for each game.
The OHSAA has used actual video of tournament games to create instructional videos for our associations. These videos will, at times, have members of our associations in them.