Writing from the film room
Video analysis gets sold as something complicated and expensive. Mostly it is neither. These are practical guides to choosing a platform, filming your own games, and getting players to actually watch the clips.
Choosing a platform
What the tools cost, what they are each built for, and how to work out which one your club will actually use.
Best Sports Video Analysis Software for Clubs and School Teams
8 min readEight platforms, what each is built for, and how to tell which of the three problems is actually yours.
Hudl Alternatives: What Clubs Switch To, and Why
6 min readSeven alternatives, the three reasons teams leave, and how to work out which part of Hudl you actually use.
Veo Alternatives: Analysis Without an Auto-Follow Camera
5 min readWhat the camera actually buys you, how to replace it with a tripod, and which platforms take it from there.
Hudl vs Veo: Which One Does Your Club Need?
5 min readTwo products that get shortlisted against each other despite solving different problems. How to tell them apart.
What Sports Video Analysis Software Really Costs
6 min readListed prices for eight platforms, plus the four costs that never appear on the pricing page.
Free Sports Video Analysis Software: What You Actually Get
6 min readAn honest account of the free options, where the limits bite, and a no-budget workflow that holds up.
Running video with your team
Getting footage recorded, organised, watched and handled responsibly, without adding a second job to your week.
How to Film Your Own Games: Height, Angle and Settings
6 min readHeight beats equipment. Where to stand, what to record at, and how to make every game look the same.
How to Use YouTube as Your Game Film Library
6 min readFree hosting that streams properly to phones, the settings to get right, and where it stops being enough.
The Twenty-Minute Film Session: A Template
5 min readEight clips, four rules, and a structure you can run every week without losing the room.
Player Privacy and Safeguarding in Team Video
6 min readConsent, hosting, access and retention: the decisions to make before you film a youth team.
By sport
What is worth clipping, and what the footage can tell you, in the sports where review changes the most.
Video Analysis for Football Coaches
6 min readThe five things worth clipping from a match, and how to review them without spending your week on it.
Rugby Video Analysis: Set Piece, Breakdown, Transition
6 min readRugby is unusually reviewable because so much of it repeats. What to clip from set piece, breakdown and transition.
Video Analysis for Netball Coaches
6 min readNetball is a game of timing, which is exactly what film shows and live coaching cannot.
Terms and concepts
Plain explanations of the vocabulary, so a quote or a feature list stops being guesswork.
What Is Telestration?
6 min readThe broadcast technique that became a coaching tool, and when to leave the footage alone.
What Is AI Player Tracking, and What Can It Not Do?
7 min readHow tracking actually works, the four situations where it fails, and what it is genuinely good for.
The Video Analysis Glossary for Coaches
7 min readEvery term you will meet in a demo or a quote, defined plainly and grouped by topic.
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