Some General Questions on Tennis Video Settings, Procedures and Editing

I thought this exchange from a customer might be useful to others.  This is a summary of some questions I r day and the answer.

  1.  How should the angle be set?
  2. Did the wide angle give the curve and should it be set to medium angle?
  3. Also what is the best way to delete videos and clear the SD card?
  4. Finally, what editing software for compiling the best shots and transferring them to YouTube do you recommend? Many thanks for your suggestions and website. Leianna

 

Hi XXXXX, hope I can help out!

a.)  The angle looking down into the court can be a personal preference.  Use the marks on the camera bracket to line up with the marks on the base and experiment from there.   As far as the fish-eye effect, the further away from the center of the picture, the more pronounced the affect.  There’s just no getting around it completely. As you angle the camera more downwards, the near baseline will be straighter and straighter as it nears the center of the picture, so you might want to experiment a little with what you like.   I find that using a medium field of view and a normal angle gets rid of most of the “fisheye”.  There are also in-expensive software programs that remove fisheye that work fairly well.

There are two recommended ways to delete videos, and what I do is generally is at the end of the day to download the video files to my computer, then format the card. You MUST delete or format the sd card while it’s in the camera, NOT with your computer. While in the camera, you can use either the app or just do it manually.   I have gotten in the habit of doing it manually and once you get the hang of it, it’s much faster.

As far as editing software, it depends on what computer operating system you have. I have a Macbook Pro laptop and use FinalCut X, although iMovie which is free is just about as good. I also use Quicktime to scroll through videos and look for certain points, then trim out those points. I haven’t tried it myself, but GoPro puts out a very basic software editing program that allows you to grab scenes. If for a Windows based system, I believe they have a free software package (Windows Movie Maker??) that works great from what I hear. I’ve also used Cyber

But what’s your goal with the videos? This guy Cizr is pretty popular with folks for editing out dead time from a video, but there’s a fee. http://www.cizr.com

Let me know if that doesn’t do the trick!

Thanks,

Mike

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