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Video of swims at Nationals available

This year we captured all the swimming at nationals on video! A lot of this video is available on the web via youtube, and we're uploading more every day!

Note that youtube supports different video quality levels, at the bottom of the video there will be an HD or HQ button which allows you to watch in higher resolution and better quality. High quality playback requires a faster computer to play smoothly than the default quality.

There are two ways to access the video, one is to just go to youtube and sort through the videos, the other is to go to the meet results on mymsc, find a swim that you want to watch in the results, and click the heat number to get to the video of that heat.

The videos on youtube are at: http://www.youtube.com/MscMncVideo The list of videos is several pages long and the title indicates the event and heat number.

The meet results on mymsc are accessed at: http://mymsc.ca/ShowMeet.jsp?id=263 This takes you to a screen which allows you to either look at the complete results (just click the "Show" button) or you can specify a specific swimmer, club, or event to limit the results.

Once you are looking at the results just move your mouse over the heat number and a tool-tip will pop up showing the heat number (rightmost column) and lane number of the swimmer, and if the video of the heat is available the word "video" will also appear. If the word video does appear just click the link to go to the video page.

So far, all the Sunday relays have been posted along with most events swum in the deep end on Saturday (men's events) and Sunday (women's events), we're currently uploading Monday's heats. The complete set of videos is well over 100 Gigabytes so we're starting with the shorter races and it will take a while to get everything loaded. The video of the shallow end was shot with one video file per event (we only had one cameraman to run two cameras!) so those videos have to be split into individual heats, which will take time. Come back as time goes on to see more and more videos!

To view the relays go to http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=MscMncVideo&view=videos&query=Relay, links from the relay results to the videos will be added soon.

Posted at 11:36PM Jun 01, 2009 by Lindsay in General  |  Comments[1]