Team Highlights & Pages, Easy Basketball Breakdown

Posted October 26, 2009 by Jon Dokulil
Under  • Features & Updates

It’s been a month since our last release and we’ve already got another one. As always, leave us your thoughts in the comments section. Your feedback is the reason we can continue making Hudl better and better.

Here’s what’s new and changed in this release:

Team Highlights

Sometimes, the whole team deserves a highlight. Maybe your line executed their blocks perfectly and sprang your tailback for a big gain. The ELOB play you practiced all week paid off in the 4th quarter—make it a team highlight.

They work the same as athlete highlights. Just click the star icon in your clips list and choose Team Highlight.

These highlights will show up on your new…

Improved Team Pages

The old Team page was a bit cramped. We designed it a long time ago before we knew how coaches would really use Hudl. This is a page you can share with family, friends and fans. It has a larger roster and schedule which serve as launching pads to other Team and Athlete pages.

This is a page that we’ll continue to improve over the coming months. Let us know what you’d like to see here.

Easier Basketball Breakdown

Unlike our football breakdown tools in Video Editor, our old basketball breakdown tools weren’t very quick—you couldn’t keep up with the pace of the game if you wanted to breakdown a live game. We fixed that.

We show you all the keyboard shortcuts right on top of big buttons that do most of the work.

After the game is over, you can go back through all the actions you recorded for your team, assign them to individual players and “place them on the court” so Hudl can build your team and individual shot charts.

Auto Scene Detection in Video Editor

Cutting footage into clips can be tedious. Our video guru, Bryce, spent a lot of time building “scene detection” into the editor. Basically, when the video changes drastically or sharply (e.g. exactly what happens when you stop recording and start 10 seconds later), we call that a scene and create a clip from it.

For some sports it doesn’t work as well. If your camera operator records the whole game as one, giant continuous stream (without ever stopping), we won’t be able to detect individual scenes.

This will be another option to “auto-cut” film when you create projects in Hudl Video Editor. It should save you a lot of time.

Other New Features and Changes

• Select multiple clips with the Shift key on your Library page.
• Share your Team and Athlete pages on Facebook and Twitter. Just click the icons on those pages.
• Cleaner and clearer breakdown controls for Volleyball in Hudl Video Editor.
• Coaches now have full control to permanently delete players from their teams. Doing this will remove all highlights for that player. Use disable if the player graduated or ‘gracefully’ left the team.