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Originally Posted by HLin NC
bison- from what I read on their website, they were quoting you the top of the line premium package. The basic is $200- you can just exchange for the season, no bells and whistles. Youth leagues have a $29 per month option.
That top end stuff is really paying for gobs of server space to store the videos.
I questioned the "exchange issue" with an online rep today from Hudl. He said that wasn't necessary for officials (obviously, we have nothing to trade). However there is no method presently via Hudl to request a video from a school in our one way status. You've either ahve got to contact the school or have prior arrangements to have them let you access it. That is the rub- I'm suggesting our RSO create a formal agreement with the area schools who are on it to either feed it to the referees over the weekend as our WH's have a conference call on Sunday night. They could then distribute on to the crew(s). Alternatively, let the RSO access it and then forward on to the R's or the whole crew.
What would really be nice would be to tie it all into The Arbiter someway.
Presently what I do is rip the game DVD to my PC, convert to QuickTime and then transfer via iTunes to my iPad where I then use the ReplayBooth app to cut clips. I can then e-mail the clips or create a playlist to show at meetings on a projector. I can telestrate with the app also. I also upload the game to an unlisted YouTube channel and e-mail that link to the crew so they can have it as quickly as I can get it to them.
This is all very time consuming, particularly the format conversion. Add in the old guys who just want a copy of the DVD, which takes a lot of time to make on a laptop, and I spend more time creating then I do breaking down and evaluating.
I just figure there's a better way.
Either way though, it appears I'm dependent on a coach getting a hard copy or digital access for me to make it all happen. This can be the hardest part.
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The way our college conference exchanges video with a couple schools is we have a 30-second clip of a play we send in exchange for the entire game. For our conference games they have some kind of community space with all the schools and the officials as a separate team. Every school puts their video in the central pool and anyone can share anyone's games. Our supervisor picks one of the videos and shares it with his team.
That wouldn't work for HS since we don't have associations that would only with local schools. It would be 165 crews and 320 schools. The schools would never agree to have everyone access everyone else's videos. The top account was quoted because exchanged video is considered "practice and scout" video. Assuming each game is about an hour of raw video (sideline and end zone), the Silver account would only give you 10 games.
If we were only a local association with 15 or 20 crews they might be more willing to work with us on a smaller account but because we would have all 165 crews in the state they would only quote us the highest account. All of this was collected by someone else so I would like to talk to them myself. There has to be a way for us to do it for a smaller price.