Josh Greer
DFP Vendor
Thanks Josh. I appreciate the insight and understand you have a vested interest. Valid point on something going through the fence and the potential for contact. In your experience, what's the optimal height for camera mounting? Obviously at a 6'-ish height you would need to move to the side to avoid the umpire if strike zone is to be captured. Being slightly above (8-10'?) would still give the side to side zone but cut down on the height of the ball a bit.
For me, I'm generally mounting head high. I manually stop and start the recording between each half inning. For a GoPro, it will chapter (break up) at a specific time/size. Since that it an immovable object, I'd rather be in control. Stopping between each half inning makes it easier to find specific events. IE, if you know something happened in the bottom of the 3rd inning, you go to the 6th file. Then before uploading, I run it through MP4Joiner and Handbrake; both free apps. MP4Joiner renders to a single file. Handbrake makes the file size more manageable. It is important to note, however, that the work the Handbrake performs just makes it longer for most cloud sources (YouTube, FaceBook, etc.) to process the video. However, with out janky internet, it is still is faster in the end. If you have really good internet, I wouldn't run the Handbrake process.
As far as streaming goes, FaceBook using a Smartphone seems to be the easiest and most popular. YouTube requires 1000+ subscribers natively (RTMP is possible but has a learning curve). As for overlays the following are ones we are aware of, but I won't comment on the pro's and con's of each:
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