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SMART System FAQ Frequently Asked Questions Table of Contents
What is the SMART System?SMART is an easy to use software package to analyze and report on ANY sports motion captured on video. SMART features Video VCR with motion drag bar, Snapshots, Multi-Frames, and Side-by-Side Playback to analyze the video, and full-featured Kinetic Animation to analyze the motion in its smallest detail. Angles and paths can be identified and analyzed to identify the smallest problems associated with any sports related movement. Whether it is Baseball, Softball, Golf, Tennis, or most of the Track and Field Events, SMART is a powerful tool to enhance the performance of an athlete. Back to TopWhat does the SMART System Pro Edition provide? Full Drawing on the Video
Window Unlimited Proof Sheet Most Recently Used Files Open videos by athlete Bookmarks Gallery Create Browser (Web) Pages Output Options Kinematic Animation Videos Video Capture Video Editing What is not included in SMART?SMART does not provide the expertise in each of the sports, although ECI will be offering specialized help files in many sports, as well as a discussion group on it’s web site to ask questions and share ideas. Kinetic Animations can be downloaded off the web, and imported into the SMART Software for playback. This Animation library will allow comparison of your athlete’s motion to motions of superstars in their respective sports. Back to TopWhat functionality does SMART offer ?SMART offers many features to help in analyzing a motion. First, a full featured VCR-like player allows you to view the video. The Video VCR features include forward play, reverse play, mirror play, speed selection, mouse-button direction control, and a motion drag bar. The motion drag bar will adjust the current frame, real time, to view and review video, forward or back, giving you full control over the video. The Multi-Frame window displays from two to forty-eight frames of the video on one window. The number of frames between each frame shown can be adjusted. This allows you to see all the major parts of a motion on one page, or many frames of a problem in the athlete’s motion on a single page. Notes can be entered for this window also, and are printed when the window is printed. The Proof Sheet stores up to 6 frames at a time from the Video VCR window. The frames are numbered, to allow easy reference from the Notes facility. The Proof Sheet can be used as a tool to show the athlete the highlights, or problems with the motion, as well as comments about it. The Side-by-Side VCR allows comparisons of two videos, either of the same athlete at two different times, or a video of an athlete to a video of another athlete. The start frame can be adjusted to allow you to synchronize the side-by-side videos by changing the start frame to match the other videos logical start of the motion to be compared. The playback rate can be adjusted separately for each video, to allow you to better synchronize the videos. Either side can be mirrored, to, for example, compare a lefty and a right batter from the same side. Each video also has a frame forward/frame backward control to fully match frames from both videos. SMART offers full video analysis tools, but its strength is in the Kinetic Animations. Tracking the pure motion, without all of the noise and distraction found in the background of a video, allows for the analysis of the smallest movement. The slightest difference in the angle of the arm, or rotation of the body, can be easily identified. The video frame or frames that contain the problem can then be printed, and used to show the athlete the problem, and the correction. SMART also offers a full-featured word processor, fully integrated into the system. The notes taken behind each window, together with the graphic windows, can be printing using SMART’s printing subsystem, which allows full print preview with zoom. Back to TopWhat hardware requirements does SMART have?SMART has the following minimum hardware requirements:
Back to TopWhich video hardware does SMART work with?SMART works with any video hardware that is Video for Windows compliant. We recommend the Belkin Videobus 2 USB cable, or the Dazzle Digital Video Creator 80. Contact our sales department if you cannot find these products. Contact our support department with any questions on video hardware. Back to TopWhat is in the future for the SMART System?ECI has extensive plans for the future of the SMART System. From video enhancements such as zooming to a specific part of the video, to Kinetic Animation enhancements such as full 3D rotation, zooming, and panning, to video hardware control. We listen to our clients for new features! ECI will be publishing Help files for many sports defining, in detail, the use of SMART in analyzing the sport's specific motions. Back to Top
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