Video Analysis Software by AllSportSystems

Most consumer cameras in the U.S. take 30 pictures every second. This is a constant, and is known as the Frame Rate or Frames Per Second. The amount of time the shutter is open during each of these pictures is determined by your shutter speed. So if you set your shutter speed to 1/100th of a second, then during each of those 30 images the camera will capture 1/100th of a second worth of action. If you set the shutter to 1/10000 then each image will capture only 1/10000 of a second. The camera will not take ‘the next’ picture until 1/30th of a second has elapsed. Therefore, a faster shutter speed will reduce the amount of blurring you see in high speed actions, but it will not increase the total number of images captured during any period of time. The following image illustrates this for a camera filming 30 frames per second, with the shutter speed set to 1/100th of a second.

Yes you can! Notice the small grey bar that shows up underneath your videos when you have two files open. Click your mouse anywhere inside that grey bar underneath the left video, and you will find that the RIGHT video will ’slide over’ to that position. Use this feature to position the right hand video as far over on top of the left as you can, without overlapping the athlete in the left video.

Now you can ZOOM out (use the + key) and you will find that both videos can make fuller use of the available screen space.

AVI video generally consumes about to 4 to 5MB per second (at 720×480 resolution). You will want to use AVI in MotionView because this produces the highest quality and because AVI files produce the smoothest playback in forward and reverse slow motion.

Windows Media (WMV) videos typically consume about 10 MB per MINUTE at 640×480. This is the format you will want to use in MotionClip, since you will be working with much longer video segments (matches or games), and probably not doing much slow motion analysis.

Yes it can! We have customers with cameras that shoot 1,000 frames per second using MotionView to analyze the video. These cameras store the footage internally during capture, so the video is first transferred to the computer outside of MotionView, where it can then be opened and analyzed.

Conversion to 60FPS takes place on the “Export Video Options” panel. To convert a video file from 30FPS to 60FPS take the following steps:

. Open the 30FPS video in MotionView, and trim any excess.
. Click the Export Video icon.
. On the Export Video Options panel select “Convert raw video into 60FPS”.
. Click OK and choose a filename for your new video.

This will produce a new video file in 60FPS. Your 30 FPS video will not be affected. Note that 60FPS conversion only works on video files that are “interlaced”, such as AVI files that were captured over firewire or over our USB Video Capture cable. You cannot convert WMV, MOV, MPEG, or other formats into 60FPS.

If you use our USB Video Capture Cable you can connect any analog video source to our software and capture video. This includes TV tuners, VCRs, DVD players, VHS and 8MM camcorders, etc.

Bowling coaches: We have a website dedicated to bowling video analysis and bowling coach software at http://www.bowlingcoachsystems.com. This site focuses on the application of MotionView to the sport of bowling.

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.