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NEW YORK – What can you do with 2 cameras and a passion for your profession and for the game? Specifically, Video Production and Football that is. Well, you can be the “Fundamental” source that creates a nearly insurmountable amount of content, in nearly impossible time frames using state of the art technology. All to be filtered, http://viagra24-pharmacyonline.com/cialis-with-dapoxetine-20-mg-online.html sorted and batched for the purposes of “Technical Analysis.” Hours upon hours of clips broken down week after week over the ENTIRE SEASON including PRACTICES!

Dave…

The upcoming opposing teams last 5 games will be masterfully broken down into broad edits consisting of the 3 facets of football, Offense, Defense and Special Teams. Then edited down further into such minutia that prior to the cutting edge technology, it was a 0300 hrs start time to get the work done for the day.

Let’s continue. Each play then breaks down to anywhere from 60 to 70 sub categories such as distance, down, personnel, situation, yard gain and so forth and so on. Feel free to sketch out a chart for yourself if it’ll make it easier to follow. I know I charted it out for myself to make sure this story went in the right direction.

Video facility

Field Image Capture for Coaches.

Dave Maltese…

Now, for the sake of space and sanity, let’s just isolate the “Defense” which in turn will then be further broken down into edits of ANOTHER 44 sub-sub categories; tendency, red zone, 1st down runs, 3rd down passes etc. etc. etc. not spoken lightly and in full recognition of the intentional deletion of “Offense and Special Teams” and their sub-sub categories!

Which in mentioning Special Teams, simply given the constraints of space may we dedicate this paragraph to the full recognition of the fact that Dave doesn’t do it alone! Dave works closely with a Special Team, which is second to none. Know that all the stuff GLOSSED over in this article is MASTERFULLY handled, in the real world by Assistant Video Directors, Carmen Pizzano, Ed Triggs, and Steve Venditti.

Dave Maltese, Video Director…

Keep this all in mind and for those in the business, you know exactly or perhaps not, what the above would entail in the old days of FILM!!! If your not sure, ask an Industry Veteran who’s lived the life of a “tape jockey” and watch their head immediately start shaking as http://zoloftonline-generic.com/catalog/Depression/Paxil.htm their eyes roll, shark like, signaling the YOU HAVE NO IDEA expression.

Dave Maltese, Video Director, NY Giants…

Ask HIM, we did and what an amazing interview it was. Self Analysis, Analytical, Line Movement, Criteria, Breakdowns, Find The Flaws, Instantaneous Access, all buzzwords Dave was using to answer and explain to me, exactly what his work consisted of and what exactly it does for the team. “Dave! Dave…Dave, if I were to ask you for a sentence that BEST would summarize what Dave Maltese, Video Director for the Giants and his Team is all about, what would it be?” Ready for genius folks, here’s Dave’s response “We’re hoping to find the flaws in our opponents so that (our camera work and production) abilify reviews will enable us to teach them to our players in hopes that we can get a victory on Sunday.”

Dave Maltese. High 50 yard line shot

A reply to which I took a moment to soak up and fully appreciate the profoundness of, before my follow up question “By shooting what specifically?” Dave said “well, according to the rules set down by the NFL Competition Committee we are required, as is every club, to shoot our games, home and away, from a sideline and an endzone perspective capturing the alignment and movement of all 22 players participating in every play.” Wow, was an appropriate response from me. “The stuff we shoot is also fed to the Officiating Crew for contested plays as well as to the “Color Guys” on the telestrator” Dave added. Unlike the 11 to 13 cameras used for broadcast, Dave, with 2 cameras, superior leadership skills and the rest of his key Team have a very critical and specific mission, providing content canadian family pharmacy to be uploaded to the CGE Network*.

View of Dave’s booth from the field

With those 2 cameras and angles, Dave and his Team are able to nail down content that will eventually be used inGAME CRITICAL TECHNICAL ANALYSIS by the coaching staff. Bottom lining it, what’s shot can and will eventually be broken down and filtered into any of these categories, key words and/or Football terminology: advance – bounce – box – cadence – comeback – contain – contrarian – cycle – crash – decline– distance – fade – fakeout – flag – drop – flat – formation – gap – hook reversal – invert – isolation – tendencies – analysis – situational – motion – neckline – negative territory – option – opening – pattern – pivot – outside reversal – momentum – resistance – reverse – screen – secondary – signal – separation – settle – slant – spike – sticks – strong side – support – swing – switch – trailing – territory – variance – weak side – wedge – zig zag – zone of resistance.”

“Hang on” I said…”We talking Wall Street or Football here?” Actually, I answered my own question with the fact that it could literally be EITHER or BOTH! I had a really fascinating realization at that moment of just how close winning and loosing a game and season is to winning and loosing in business. Literally every single word in that list above can and is seamlessly and interchangeably uttered daily from the lips of Wall Street Technical Stock Analyst s andNFL Coaches or Commentators!

Technical analysis plays an equally big part when it comes to bringing home a win be it on the “Field” or on the “Street”.

If your a successful Video Director for the NY Giants with 21 years experience and a Super Bowl Ring to your name, the above jargon is your life and plays a vital part in obtaining a victory on Sunday. Grant it, a “Technical Analyst” on Wall Street clearly shares and verbalizes many of the same terms in addition to Fibonacci Sequence, Mandelbrot Pattern, Head and Shoulder Pattern and Dead Cat Bounce, NONE of which would help him analyze a winning team at any sportsbook in the world regardless of the spread (oh, spread is another mutually used term, for the record).

So what’s the difference between an HP12C and a XOS Digital? One helps you with Technical Analysis in theFINANCIAL WORLD and the other in the FOOTBALL WORLD..

That was a bad attempt at a “trade joke”, however what Dave and his Team do is anything but a joke. Wining IS everything. IN THE REAL WORLD that is, because if you win on Wall Street, you make money and bonuses. If you win WITH your team, you make money and bonuses and if one’s technical wizardry as Video Director and Assistant Directors contributed to anything beyond 0 and 16, there just may be another SUPERBOWL ring waiting!

BONUS MATERIAL: (WARNING: TECHIES ONLY)

CGE NETWORK Back End

Here are some details we’ve come across online about Signiant and the infrastructure and technology behind theCGE Network. (per 2010 info)

Description of Club Game Exchange

o NFL Competition Committee requires every club to shoot their game, home and away, from a sideline and an endzone perspective capturing the alignment and movement of all 22 players participating in every play.

o A copy of the final play marked game in O/D/K format must be distributed, by the home club, to the next 2 opponents of the home and away club

Evolution

o Film
o Tape – NFL Films Dub Center
o Hard Drives – Signiant Duplication
o Signiant Digital Transfer – Virtual Dub Center

Bandwidth

League wide IPVN Network
800 mb/sec at central Dub Centers
40 mb/sec at each club site
300 mb/sec HSIP circuits at central Dub Centers
400 mb/sec MVNS circuit connecting central Dub Centers

Storage

3 years of online pro footage and 1 year of online collage footage (Roughly 1200 games) at central Dub Centers.

50 TB Storage Area Networks at each Dub Center

The systems are duplicated in identical hardware, software and connectivity at 2 Virtual Dub Centers (NFL Films – NJ and NFL Network CA)

The 2 methods of distribution

o Signiant Content Distribution Manager
o Signiant Media Exchange

Misc.

o 38 circuits, 2 XSans, 66 PCs, 2 Firewalls, 33 NAS devices, 35 switches, 35 routers, 3 Signiant servers, 80+ Signiant Agents, 2 transcoding clusters, 5 Coaches systems.


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