sportsnut5 wrote:With the Pixellot system and NFHS, the scoreboard feature is an additional camera that focuses on the scoreboard. In most of the gyms in North Dakota this feature is a struggle. The reasoning for this I believe is the relationship between our scoreboards and the ceiling and lights of the gym. I know in our gym, the ceiling is not high enough. The lights in the gym are too close to the scoreboard and the reflection of those lights cause the camera to pick up inaccurate readings of the time and score. For us, we often get a score of 88 because the camera reads the reflection of the lights as all the bars on the scoreboard are lit up. It is a struggle, but at least the game can be viewed and hopefully this feature can be improved upon.
vikingman wrote:commentary is up to the local school. If a radio station is doing the game, it's easy to connect the output in to the NFHS feed, and you can also use a local person with a $50 audio mixer to do it. I don't know if they're still doing it this way, but MyLiveEvent used to use a camera with a character reader pointed at the scoreboard and I never saw them having problems with it.
vikingman wrote:The Enderlin/LaMoure stream finally went off-air at 10:30, but now is no longer listed in the 'on demand' section.
vikingman wrote:while the explosion of webcasts this season is great, in addition to my complaints about NFHS' problems, I have one more irritation:
I realize that we aren't dealing with professional play-by-play people for most of these games, but it wouldn't hurt to watch a college game on ESPN to see how an experienced play-by-play is done. Talk is kept to a minimum (the color commentator is often times saying more than the play-by-play person is).
Just this past weekend I've watched several streams that would have almost been better without play-by-play. If you have video, you don't have to describe EVERY single pass and dribble that occurs. If you're running out of breath, or if the action is so fast that you're one play behind in your description, you're saying too much.
If you have a radio broadcast feeding in to your video, that's a different story--the announcer has to assume that most of the audience is NOT seeing the video. But even then, a good radio announcer says less than some of the streamer announcers are saying.
Just give a general overview of what's happening. Mention the name of the person with the ball. And if you're doing an NFHS stream, make sure to mention the score OFTEN.
T reporter wrote:Any of the Class B girls region tournament going to be on NFHS network? Some of the districts were some not.
How about boys districts?
vikingman wrote:i hate to keep beating a dead horse, but after seeing the story about the Bismarck game yesterday, I thought it would be worth watching.
But, NFHS can spoil even a game like that. No announcers (not NHHS' fault) and no scoreboard (except for a few times when it displayed nothing but '8's. How hard is it to get this fixed????
vikingman wrote:i hate to keep beating a dead horse, but after seeing the story about the Bismarck game yesterday, I thought it would be worth watching.
But, NFHS can spoil even a game like that. No announcers (not NHHS' fault) and no scoreboard (except for a few times when it displayed nothing but '8's. How hard is it to get this fixed????
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