Analyse a match video: track, measure, freeze and draw

Step by step

1. 1

   Add a clip and mark the pitch

   Open Match footage under The board, choose Video and press Add a video. Drop a clip; a longer one is cut to the minute you pick, and it is made ready on your device before it saves privately to your account. Then find a wide frame with plenty of lines in it and mark the pitch on it, as on a match picture. From a real match, on your systems page, starts a new board from a clip when Video is chosen.

   The camera is then followed through the clip, on your device. Play it in the sheet: the pitch is drawn over it in gold, and the timeline shows where the painted lines held it. A replay or a close-up cuts the follow: mark a frame after the cut to follow that part too.

2. 2

   Play it in the Match Analysis room

   On a wide screen a board with a clip opens in the Match Analysis room: the stage in the middle, the tools on a rail at the left, what a tool or a pick does on the right, and the whole clip on a timeline underneath. Space plays it, the arrows step a frame, and F freezes it at the playhead for 3 s, then it plays on. Tactics board, on the top bar, opens the same board among the tactics drawers, as on a phone or a tablet.

   Among the tactics drawers, press Freeze here at each moment you want to explain, then Make the phases. The clip plays to each freeze, stops on that frame for your players and drawings, and plays on. On a phase that plays, the bar under the board scrubs through it and Freeze here cuts it there.

3. 3

   Track everyone on the pitch

   Once the camera is followed, Track everyone on the pitch, in the same panel, gives every player, keeper and official a ring through the whole clip, each side read from the shirts, and keeps the tracks with the clip in your storage. Pick a man in the list and his ring turns gold: give him the right kit, make him a keeper, an official or not a player, swap him with the man beside him from that moment on, or make him the same man as one who was lost and came back.

4. 4

   Put them on the board

   On a frozen frame, Put them on the board, under Everyone on the pitch, stands every man the tracks see on the counter of his side nearest him, so numbers and names stay. Pick which kit is yours under Our side, and In their shirts dresses the board in the clip's kits. Men out of shot keep their place from the phase before, a side short of eleven is filled from a 4-4-2 laid round its men, and every guess is drawn faded with a dashed edge until you move him.

   From then on each man runs his track through every phase of the clip, so the board moves like the match: in Both views, a share link, Team Talk and a saved video, and the PDF prints each playing phase at its end with the real runs as trails. A man lost from view waits where he was last seen, then runs to where he is seen next. Fix a man in the list and his counter follows the fix; drag one while he is in view and he is followed again from there, as your own.

5. 5

   Add the analysis on the timeline

   In the room, Analysis adds a figure at the playhead: a side's back line, shape, thirds or lanes, each man's space or a side's heat. On a freeze it holds on that frame; while the clip plays it stays on for 4 s. Each figure is a bar on the timeline: drag it to move it, drag an end to set when it comes on or goes, or press it to set its start and end to the playhead ([ and ]) or take it off (Delete).

   On a phase of the clip, Analysis, in the same panel, draws what the camera shows, worked out from the players on the board at every moment: a side's back line at its second-last man and how far it stands from its goal (the keeper counts as behind it unless the camera sees him), a side's width, depth and area, how many of each side stand in each third or lane, the grass in view each man is nearest to, and where a side or one player was seen through the whole clip.

6. 6

   Measure the players

   Measure, on the room's rail, works from the players you click on the stage: Distance between two, Area for the m² inside three or more, Line through players in order with each gap in metres, Run for how far a man runs from the playhead, Speed, and Heat for where one man stood through the clip. Area and Line take as many players as you click: press Add or Enter. Only players on the board who run the clip are measured.

   Pick a player for his speed and the distance to the men near him. Only the men the camera sees are counted, never a guess, so put them on the board from the tracks first. The figures show on the video and on the board alike, in a share link, Team Talk, the PDF and a saved video.

7. 7

   Add the ball, touch by touch

   The ball, under Analysis, comes from your touches. At the moment you want, press Add a touch and tap the man who plays it or takes it, or the grass for a shot or a ball out. Between two touches by one man he carries it at his feet; otherwise it travels, along the grass or in the air with the top you set, since one camera cannot measure height. Once the clip is tracked, the touches tracking saw at a man's feet are offered to add.

   Over the video each pass is drawn as a line behind the real ball, reaching the receiver as the ball does, and an arc for one in the air. On the board the ball itself runs the touches, in Both views, a share link, Team Talk and a saved video, and the PDF prints its path as a trail. The back line's offside line steps up to the ball when it is nearer the goal than the second-last man. To show a pass of your own over a freeze, Move it yourself here makes that phase's ball yours.

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