Video Analysis Software by AllSportSystems

When you are using MotionClip to capture game film and tag the plays live at the game, you will want to use a procedure similar to the following. These steps assume that you have already created or opened a project and connected MotionClip to your camera:

1) Make sure AutoStep is not checked.
2) Press BEGIN or F9 to start capturing video.
3) Observe the play until it finishes.
4) Press END or F10 to stop the video capture. At this moment the AutoStep option determines whether the software remains on the current row of the table or automatically advances to a new row. This is why you want it UNchecked… so it stays where it is.

5) Use the QuickTag keyboard shortcuts or drop down lists to set the play parameters for the play you just recorded.

6a) Press NEXT or F11 to insert a new row in the table. Wait until the next play is about to happen and return to step 2
    -or-
6b) Press BEGIN or F9 to automatically insert a new row AND begin capturing video immediately. Return to step 3.

To combine multiple data files in MotionClip use the following procedure:

1) Open the first data file/game film set as usual
2) Use “Insert a data file into this session” under the file menu to choose additional data files/video sets.

Please note that this will add the tagged plays and the video files into the first data file. We recommend that you use “Save as…” and name the resulting combined data set something different. This way you can continue to add new data sets without messing up your initial file.

As an example, let’s say that you have three individual game films tagged, with data files named “game1.csv”, “game2.csv”, and “game3.csv”. You could open game1.csv, and then save it as “2008season.csv”. Next, insert game2.csv and game3.csv. Now, you still have each individual game as well as one large data file that covers all three games.

Tennis coaches: We have a website dedicated to tennis video analysis software and tennis match analysis software at http://www.tenniscoachsystems.com. This site focuses on the application of MotionView and MotionClip to the sport of tennis.

Football coaches: We have a website dedicated to video editing software for football at http://www.footballcoachsystems.com. This site focuses on the application of MotionClip to the sport of football.

We are pleased to announce that as of today, Feb 6, 2008, both MotionView and MotionClip no longer require administrator priveleges to run under Vista!

You will still need administrator priveleges to install and activate the software, but it is not needed to run it. Also announced today (on both XP and Vista) is support for running the software under multiple user accounts (on the same computer).

Customers are invited to update their software by free download at http://www.allsportsystems.com.

Today we uploaded version 6.1.5 of MotionClip game film video editing software to our site. Here is a summary of the enhancments in this version:

1) Unused parameters are now hidden from the main screen and table so you can have larger space for the text in those parameters which you do use.

2) The comments now appear in lead in screens.

3) The “skip forward” button was fixed to advance approximately 5 seconds (it was only moving 1 second).

4) A couple of keyboard shortcuts were added for the Play and jump buttons (Ctrl-P = play/pause, Ctrl-B = jump back, Ctrl-N = jump forward).

5) We added a “seconds” display in the bottom right corner, in addition to the hours:minutes:seconds time display that was already there. This should help you relate to the currently tagged video position a little easier.

To add or remove parameters, use the menu “Settings/Edit Parameters. This will display a screen similar to the following:

To DELETE an existing parameter, select it in the middle pane, and press the Delete button.
To ADD a new parameter, enter it in the small text area at the bottom, and press either ADD or INSERT.

Use this section for discussions about our MotionClip game film and video editing software for football and all other team sports.