MotionClip Docs

The following "walk through" demonstrates how easy it is to capture, tag, and analyze your games using MotionClip! Game film editing software. A free download of the software is also available on this website.

Create or open a Project
The project file will store all of your game parameter settings, links to video files, and the spreadsheet of tagged plays. The first step is to choose a name for your project file:

Add Video to your project
You can add existing video files to your project (.avi or .wmv format), or you can capture new video from any firewire capable camera. Using our USB Video Grabber you can capture video from cameras that do not support firewire, as well as from home DVD players or VCRs.

Tag the plays
At the beginning of each play, press the "BEGIN" button, or use the keyboard shortcut F9. If you are capturing live video or video from tape then pressing "BEGIN" will automatically initiate video capture to your hard drive, and playback/recording of the tape in your camera.

With MotionClip you can tag the plays "on the fly", at the same time as the video is being captured. This means your video operator can peform LIVE tagging at the game! Or you can simply capture the entire game and tag it later.

Mark the end of the play
As the play comes to an end press the "END" button, or use the keyboard shortcut F10. The play has now been identified. If you are capturing from live video or tape then video capture to your hard drive will be suspended at this point.

Select parameters to quantify the play
You can select parameters using either the mouse or keyboard. The keyboard shortcuts automatically 'cycle' through each parameter list. Pressing '1' cycles through list 1, pressing '2' cycles through list 2, etc, resulting in very efficient tagging. As you set the various play parameters they are automatically transferred into the spreadsheet.

When you are satisfied with the settings press the NEXT button. This will add a new row to the spreadsheet, allowing you to repeat the sequence and tag the next play.

By default the SPACE bar presses "BEGIN", "END", or "NEXT" as appropriate. This makes it very easy to tag plays using just the spacebar.

Continue this process until you've tagged all of the plays in the game.

NEXT: Sorting and Filtering the plays...

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