Hudl Mercury will load film from a DVD, hard drive camera, or media files on your computer. You will need to use the Hudl Video Editor to capture video from a MiniDV tape (whether pre-recorded or live).
Hudl Mercury is a super-simple, super-fast way to get video off of your tapeless camera, DVDs, or media files and upload it to Hudl.com.
It’s basically a “hands free” version of the Hudl Video Editor. It doesn’t have as many features but it’s much sleeker and more straightforward.
Hudl imposes a 25-highlight limit per game per athlete. This limit provides a safeguard for coaches against abuse.
When an athlete tries to highlight too many clips, Hudl displays a warning. Coaches can always highlight more than 25 clips for an athlete.
Coaches get the final say on whether video they’ve uploaded is public (visible to anyone who visits Hudl) or private (only visible to logged-in members of the team). If you’re an athlete or a parent of an athlete, this means that some aspects of your highlights are out of your control.
Let us explain what we mean:
By default, clips marked as highlights for an individual (or for the entire Team) are public in Hudl. So, when you send a link to Grandma, Uncle Bob in Iraq, or a college recruiter, they can view your highlighted videos with no restraints.
However, some coaches are not comfortable having highlights publicly available for competitive reasons. We let those coaches “opt-out” and mark their whole team’s highlights as private.
If you’re a logged-in member of the team, you will still be able to see and interact with your highlights. But if you share that page with others, they’ll see a message explaining that the team’s highlights are private.
If a coach wants to keep the team’s highlights public (as most do), they can still restrict access to certain angles of video. For example, it’s typical in football for coaches to record two angles: one from the press-box (called “Sideline” or “Wide”) and one from the end-zone behind the field goal posts (called “End-Zone”). Most coaches prefer not to include their End-Zone footage in any highlights.
That’s why Hudl gives coaches an option to toggle on or off any angle of video.
But, there’s a catch!
If either of these things happen, a clip you mark as a highlight might not show up correctly to someone outside of your team.
Long story short: the team’s coaches are the highlights gatekeepers. If your highlights aren’t public but you think they should be, explain your position to your coach. Let us know how we can help.
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When we have a purchase order on file from the school or sponsor, we would rather your account stay open while they work on sending us payment. We can’t technically mark the account as paid, so we will extend the account to a later date to allow time for payment to reach us. In this situation, payment may not have reached us even in that extended time, and your account is letting you know time is almost up.
As I mentioned before, we would rather your account stay open when we have a purchase order. Please give us a call or send us an email to let us know you are seeing that notification, and we’ll can work with you on extending the trial.
DVDs are processed in the order they are placed, and mailed out 1-3 days after they are processed. Once the DVD is mailed, you will receive an email from Hudl confirming your DVD has been shipped complete with a tracking number to see exactly where your DVD is. We send the DVDs from our office in Lincoln, Neb. so just check your tracking number to see the status of your DVD.
You’re guaranteed to have the most current features we have to offer as Hudl.com and the Hudl Video Editor are updated. You don’t pay additional annual fees for upgrades and support.
Because Hudl has no upfront costs, it would take at least four or five years of purchasing Hudl to reach the same amount as the upfront cost of other systems that are often accompanied by several other maintenance and upgrade fees. Hudl really is just one price for the whole year. That’s it.
Since we aren’t getting all your money up front and never ask for more than a year commitment, we’re always in a position to earn your business.
We make sure you have an amazing experience with Hudl so you renew the next year. That’s accountability. We don’t like paying a bunch of money up front for software that will be out of date in a year, and we know coaches don’t like to either.
We want everyone to experience just how powerful Hudl is without feeling locked in. During the first 30-days you can get the full experience of Hudl to make sure it fits you and your team’s workflows. You can cancel at anytime and you will not be charged at all. During the trial, your full Hudl account is available to you, so all the work you do during the trial stays with you after you are out of the trial and officially using Hudl.
Currently, you can pay via credit card online or you can print your invoice off from your account and send that in with a check. We offer a 5% discount to teams that sign up via credit card.
The Hudl Exchange feature cannot be used to exchange with teams that are not in Hudl.
Our recommendation: continue exchanging with the non-Hudl teams the way you do now - DVD, external hard drive, some other exchange service - you will still come out way ahead because Hudl can load, cut, and distribute the video much faster than whatever they have.
The work-around: You can use Hudl’s recruiting features to send video to a non-Hudl team. This will allow you to send video to a coach as though they were a recruiter. We don’t recommend or officially support this work-around for a couple reasons:
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If you forgot to add the discount code when you signed up, or the discount code was not recognized on your invoice, you’ll want to get in touch with us. Just let us know the name of your school and the discount code, and we will apply it to the invoice.
This is another situation where you will need to contact us so that we can change your account information – call us at 402-817-0060 or email us at .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address). The 5% Credit Card discount will be removed from the invoice as well.
We provide a 5% discount if payment comes from a credit card. If you enter credit card information when you sign up for Hudl, our system will automatically apply the 5% discount to your invoice.
Keep in mind the system will also automatically run the credit card on the last day of the 30-Day Free Trial!
Payment via check or Purchase Order doesn’t include any special discounts. However, if you signed up electing a purchase order or check as your preferred method of payment, and you would like to change the payment method to credit card, give us a call: 402-817-0060.
We have a ready-made Sole-Source Letter that describes how Hudl is a unique service, and we’re happy to provide it to you or the school’s billing department upon request. Just send an email to .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) or call us at 402-817-0060, and we can mail, fax, or email a copy right away.
If the school requires specific information on the Hudl Invoice that is not reflected on there already, we can customize the Invoice at your request. Our goal is to make the customized changes within one business day. Send us an email at .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) or give us a call at 402-817-0060, let us know what needs to be included on the Invoice, and we will get right on it.
Unfortunately, we will not be able to put customized invoices up on Hudl.com for you to access. If you can provide us an email address, fax number, or mailing address to send the customized invoice to, we will ensure that it gets sent out.
A recruiter can access any video sent to them by a coach or player, free of charge. When video is shared to a recruiter in Hudl, if the recruiter doesn’t already have a Hudl login, he can set one up the first time he accesses the video.
Yes. Hudl makes it easy for you to create a recruiter package, which eliminates the hassle of creating DVDs and the cost of sending them through the mail. You can also share any players highlight page using the sharing tools on the page.
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Yes. Once you create a highlight page, you can email your highlights to a recruiter. Because the highlight page is a public facing page, you can also copy the link and share the link with others.
Recruiting Packages with game film can only be shared by coaches through Hudl Recruiting.
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Once you place your DVD order, the order will be processed and shipped within two business days. Once shipped, it generally take 3-5 business days to ship completely although this time could be faster or slower depending on your mail service.
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Anyone. Highlight pages are open to the public and the option to order a DVD is right on the highlight page, making the process quick and easy. Anyone (including a coach recruiting you or your grandparents) who accesses a highlight page will be given the option to order a DVD.
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Creating highlights on Hudl.com is free and available to every player and team.
Premium highlights are free to create and share for coaches and players. Once unlocked, Premium Highlights will be available on your highlight page.
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Yes. Both coaches and players can create highlights with a simple click of the mouse that you can quickly and easily share to recruiters, friends, and family.
Hudl.com gives the option of both basic and premium highlights. Premium highlights give you the ability to create a professional highlight film with cover slides, music, spots shadows or arrows, and customized clip order.
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Yes, the Hudl Video Editor can automatically intercut multiple angles of your film together. Hudl isn’t limited to just two angles. You can either add the second angle after the game is over and match it up then or you can capture both angles live during the game if you are able to connect both cameras to your laptop. If you video a wide, tight, and end zone or want to match up a close-up angle from the sideline, Hudl can handle that, too.
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Hudl has three different prices and packages starting at $800 per year depending on your team’s needs.
We also have a youth package starting at $29 per month for youth teams looking for a more streamlined set of features but all of the power to share their video, analyze their performance and make highlights for family and friends.
Some of Hudl’s icons are designed in-house but many are from the free icon set called ‘Silk’ available here.
No. Hudl is designed to work with your existing hardware. You can access Hudl.com on any computer with an internet connection and capture video on any standard Windows computer.
You can also use whatever camera you currently have. Click here to see a list of camera recommendations.
Hudl is designed to work with any sport and includes all of the essentials to enable any team to capture, analyze, and share video. It also has a full suite of custom tools for football, basketball, and volleyball.
In the future, we’ll be adding more custom tools for other sports. The ability to create custom data reports is available for all sports, though.
We offer significant discounts to organizations that sign up multiple sports. The first sport is full price and the next two sports are half price for each. Any additional sports after that are free.
There are no additional per-user charges. Once you sign up for Hudl, you can immediately add every athlete and coach on your team.
Once you sign up with Hudl, you have complete control over your roster. Within Hudl, you will find management pages to set up all players and coaches for your team.
See the Getting Started with Hudl guides on the Hudl tutorial page for more information.
Within the first 30 days, you can cancel at any time and you will not be charged. After the trial, your Hudl account is renewed annually. If you decide that Hudl is not right for you, simply contact us and we will cancel your account.
In most cases, Hudl can actually import your video and data from your current system into Hudl, giving you all the benefits of Hudl with your old game film. So, instead of losing your work, you have the power of Hudl for your previous seasons’ video without any extra work.
Yes. View the shortcuts for Hudl Video Editor.
Print that page for quick reference. It’s also available from the Help menu within Hudl Video Editor.
Yes, every coach has the option to download the Hudl Video Editor onto as many computers as they would like. From there, everyone can simultaneously capture, breakdown, or publish video from the Hudl Video Editor to your team’s Hudl.com account. For example, you can publish your game and the opponent scout film in one night from different laptops to have it all available to your team as soon as possible.
A football or basketball game typically takes between 1.5 to 3 hours to completely publish to Hudl.com.
Hudl publishes each clip individually so within 30 seconds or so, you can watch the first play online. Within about 20 minutes, most of the first quarter will be available.
You don’t have to wait for the full game to finish to start working with your video and sharing it with the team on Hudl.com. The publishing process runs completely on its own. While your video is publishing, you can walk away, grab a bite to eat or go to sleep. When you come back, your game will be ready for you (and anyone else you shared it with) online at Hudl.com.
Yes, we recommend using the Smart Pointer remote to control your playback. You can also use a wired or wireless Xbox 360™ remote to control video playback in Hudl Video Editor.
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Once you have captured your video, the Hudl Video Editor has a one-click publishing process that uploads your video to Hudl.com for you. You can walk away while Hudl Video Editor does its thing. You can also stop the publishing process at any point if you need to take your computer home and it will pick back up right where you left off.
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The time it takes to breakdown a game varies based on the level of detail to the information recorded on each clip. With Hudl, since multiple coaches can break down a game at the same time, the process is significantly shorter.
Hudl’s auto-complete feature enters data based on values you’ve already entered. Quick-entry drop-down lists for football, basketball and volleyball make break down even more efficient.
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In most cases, Hudl can import projects from your current editing system so you can use the power of Hudl with all of your old video and data. Currently, Hudl can import video and data from DSV, APEX, Game Plan/Coach Comm, Webb Electronics, and LRS.
If you use a system other than those listed or need help with the process in general, contact us and we’ll help you figure out a solution.
Because the Hudl Video Editor requires Microsoft’s .NET 3.5 framework, it does not natively work on a Mac. That said, you can use BootCamp to install Windows on your machine and then install the Video Editor. This will allow you to capture and publish from a Mac (through Windows).
The good news about Hudl is that once you publish your video to Hudl.com, you can do everything else from a Mac. So you really only need one computer with Windows to publish your film and once it is online you can tag breakdown data, make cutups, share, and take advantage of everything else Hudl has to offer.
The Hudl Video Editor can live capture from a MiniDV camera and can load video files directly from a hard drive camera as soon as the game or practice is over.
Hudl can also capture video from a miniDVD camera through its DVD ripping feature.
You should also read our list of recommended cameras for Hudl on our blog.
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Yes, Hudl Video Editor offers integrated DVD ripping. You simply place a DVD in your computer, Hudl loads it automatically in 5-10 minutes, and all you have to do is mark the beginning of each play, point, possession, etc. to cut the video into individual clips. No extra hardware is required.
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The Hudl Video Editor can run on nearly any Windows machine, although the following list includes our suggested minimum requirements:
If you are using a Mac, you’ll need an Intel-based processor (new Macs within the last 3 years should have this) and will need to use a program called BootCamp (which is free) to install and run Windows on your Mac. The Windows license is not free, but your school may have one you can use. Once you publish the video to Hudl.com, you can use any computer (Mac or PC) and get the full Hudl experience.
There may be other requirements depending on your method of capture. For instance, if you wish to capture from a DVD, you will need a DVD drive on your computer.
If you wish to capture from a MiniDV camera, you will need a Firewire port built in or an external card.
No, the Hudl Video Editor comes at no additional cost, and can be downloaded and installed by any coach on as many computers as you need.
The Hudl Video Editor is a tool that coaches and administrators use to capture and upload video to Hudl.com. Once the video has been captured, coaches can add or edit information for clips in the Video Editor. The Hudl Video Editor is a free accessory to Hudl.com.
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As a coach, you can download any project into the Hudl Video Editor and watch it offline without internet access at any time. All of your breakdown data will download and you can use your Xbox 360 remote to control the video video.
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Yes, Hudl has integrated DVD burning software that allows you to burn any game, playlist, or highlight video onto a DVD.
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Yes, Hudl has a one-click and an escrow-based video exchange feature that allows you to exchange video with any other teams using Hudl. You have full control over what data, if any, you would like to exchange along with the video.
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Yes, telestration can be added right over top of video with a click of the mouse. Hudl saves it for you automatically so you can come back to your notes easily later.
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Yes. Creating playlists (aka cutups or edits) is a great way to produce a focused set of video clips for your team. Custom playlists ensure that your team is watching exactly what they need to prepare. Delivering these playlists is easy through Hudl’s built-in sharing features. You can create a playlist by checking the clips you want manually or using Hudl’s filters to find all of the videos of a certain situation (e.g. all your opponents’ passes on third and long, all of your kills out of rotation three, or all of your three point makes).
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Data on Hudl.com is shared by all coaches but you can customize your personal view of it. As a defensive coach, you might not be interested in seeing information in columns designed for the offense—you can hide those from your view.
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Yes, along with your pre-installed breakdown columns, Hudl also allows you to create your own breakdown columns. You are in complete control of the terminology used for your team, so you can tag the video exactly how you want it.
Yes, any coach on the roster can edit the breakdown data associated with the clips. In fact, multiple coaches can edit breakdown data on Hudl.com simultaneously from their own personal computers, meaning you can breakdown games faster than ever before.
To learn how to edit your breakdown data in Hudl.com, see the Editing breakdown data tutorial.
Absolutely. Loading opponent scout is just as easy as loading your own video with Hudl Video Editor.
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Your players will be able to:
Players are not able to:
We do this to keep the video and data secure for your team. Players can only see the video and data you share with them—coaches have complete control over the video.
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Yes. When you create your roster, you have the ability to invite your players to Hudl by including their email address.
Each player you invite will have his own account and password. You can disable a player’s account at any time.
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With Hudl, you get unlimited storage of your game footage. Opponent scouting and practice footage storage varies, depending on the package purchased.
The Silver, Gold, and Platinum packages allow 10, 40, and 200 hours of opponent and practice storage, respectively.
You are in complete control of the storage and can remove any old practice film with one click. Once your video is published to your team site on Hudl, you can remove the captured video from your computer, so you no longer need to worry about hard drive space on your computer or maintaining several external hard drives.
We use high quality, compressed video for Hudl.com. We make it as crisp as possible (while keeping it reasonable to stream and download from the web) when you are presenting to the team on a projector or TV in full screen mode.
In Hudl Video Editor, you always have access to your original, uncompressed footage (as long as you’ve got the hard drive space to store it).
Hudl has several built-in reports for football, basketball, and volleyball. All sports can create custom reports that slice and dice the data however you like.
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At this time, there isn’t a Mac version of the Hudl Video Editor. The Hudl Video Editor requires Microsoft .NET which Apple doesn’t support, so the Video Editor won’t run in the Mac operating system. That said, you can use Boot Camp to install Windows on your machine and then install the Video Editor. This will allow you to capture and publish from a Mac (through Windows).
Once you publish your video to Hudl.com, you can do everything else from a Mac because from there, the system is web-based. You really only need one computer with Windows to publish your film and once it is online you can tag breakdown data, make cutups, share, and take advantage of everything else Hudl has to offer.
Mac users can’t use the Xbox 360™ remote or create voice recordings at this time.
Hudl has been designed to work on both PC and Mac computers. The Hudl Video Editor is designed to work in Windows, therefore, you will need at least one Windows computer to capture video and get it into Hudl.com.
On PCs, you do not need any special hardware to run Hudl but we recommend a computer with at least a 1 GHz processor and at least 2GB RAM, but this is not required.
For Macs, you will need to have an Intel-based processor. You can download Bootcamp for your Mac, which will allow you to capture film using the Video Editor.
On Hudl.com, you will need to install Silverlight, the underlying technology used in Hudl. For more information about the minimum system requirements necessary for Silverlight, see the Silverlight system requirements page.
Hudl will work in Internet Explorer (IE) 7+, 8+, and 9+, Firefox 2+, 3+, and 4+, Google Chrome, and Safari 3.
Hudl is a video-intensive web application and works great on home DSL and Cable internet connections as well as school networks, including wireless internet connections.
If you are unsure of the speed of your internet connection, you can test your connection speed at the following site: http://www.speedtest.net
Absolutely. Hudl gives you the ability to limit how your video is distributed. You can keep the video to yourself, share video only with other coaches on your team, your entire team, or just certain players with a few simple clicks.
Hudl uses the latest security techniques to share the video throughout our networks, so you can be assured that your video is safe in Hudl. You control access for your team. Each player and coach has their own unique username and login.
If a player or coach leaves the team, their account can be disabled immediately.
Through Hudl Video Editor, you capture video from your DVDs, tapes, or camera. That part doesn’t require an internet connection and can be done live during the game. When you’re done capturing, you will need to connect to the internet and press Publish and the video moves from your laptop or computer to our secure video servers.You can also stop the publishing process at any point if you need to take your computer home and it will pick back up right where you left off.
Once that’s done, your video is accessible from any computer with an internet connection.
Every Hudl coach can install the Hudl Video Editor software on as many computers as they like.
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Hudl’s core is a powerful web-based platform for coaches and players to access and work with video and data online. Here are a few key differences that separate Hudl from other editing systems:
Hudl is currently being used by high schools, colleges, and youth leagues across the United States and also internationally in countries like Denmark, Finland, and Japan.
The professional version of Hudl, Hudl Pro, is currently being used by teams in the NFL and the NCAA Football Bowl Subdivision.
If your school has a camera, a working computer, and an internet connection you can use Hudl.
Hudl is an end-to-end, web based, interactive video editing system for your team.You can capture your team’s video and use coaching tools to analyze and watch it securely online. Hudl keeps you connected with your team through text, telestration, and voice notes on the video. You can scout your opponents with rich tendency reports.
Hudl is more than just video editing. It’s a completely customizable coaching tool designed to work with any sport.
If you are having trouble publishing video or watching video on Hudl.com, this is a likely cause. We can fix it.
Contact our support department and we’ll get in touch with your IT staff to ensure Hudl is unhindered by your school’s internet restrictions.
Hudl is designed to be safe for work on school or corporate networks.
In order to watch video on Hudl.com, you will need to install Silverlight.
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If your team has not published any video, your first step will be to publish video from the Hudl Video Editor.
If your team has already published video, you will need to have the video shared to you. To have video shared to you, ask the coach who uploaded the video to share it to you.
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Hudl can automatically reset and send you a new password. Go to hudl.com, enter your email address in the top-right login area and click the Forgot My Password link. Then, check your email for a message from Hudl with your new password.
Hudl runs entirely in your web browser, so you do not need any separate software. To watch video on Hudl.com, you’ll need to have Microsoft’s Silverlight 4 installed.
You can download and install Silverlight 4 for free from Microsoft. For detailed Silverlight instructions, see Microsoft’s installation instructions.
For the members of your team that are capturing video from cameras or DVDs, they will need to install our free Hudl Video Editor which can be downloaded from your Hudl homepage as soon as you sign up and login.
The first thing to do would be to check that your email is entered correctly on the Profile page in Hudl. Assuming your email is correctly identified, then the email was probably blocked by your email’s spam filter. If you are not receiving emails from Hudl, you should check your Spam or Junk Mail folder for email correspondence from Hudl. If emails from Hudl are continually identified as junk mail, you should ensure to include Hudl’s email (.(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)) on your safe list.
As soon as we receive a purchase order for the Hudl purchase, we will add the PO number to the invoice. Odds are it means we simply haven’t received the purchase order yet, but we’d recommend contacting us to make sure: .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) or 402-817-0060.
A lot of schools will need Agile Sports Technologies’ W-9 tax form to enter our company as a vendor in their billing system. You or the billing department can email us, fax us, or call us for a copy of our W-9:
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Phone: 402-817-0060
Fax: 866-851-7148
Weekday hours (year round) are Monday through Friday 7:00am to 7:00pm. Weekend hours (early August - late November) are Saturday 8:00am to 5:00pm, Sunday 11:00am to 4:00pm (all times Central). Check out the support schedule for hours that are currently in effect.
Your Hudl invoice is always available to you on your Hudl account. It is first generated minutes after you first sign up for Hudl. When you log in to Hudl, click on the “My Accounts” link in the upper-right hand corner of the screen.
From there, click on the “Billings & Invoices” tab. You should see a summary of your invoices. Click on the magnifying glass icon to take a look at the invoice, or click on the printer icon to immediately print the invoice.
To see a full list of features read our features page.
Hudl automatically generates an invoice on your account minutes after you sign up. The invoice is not a requirement for you to pay for Hudl—we simply provide it to you as soon as possible for your convenience. That way, if you do decide to continue using Hudl after the 30 Day Free Trial, you can easily get a copy of your invoice.
You are actually still able to log in to Hudl and access “My Accounts.” Your account will be restricted from viewing video, but you can still access your account information and invoices.
Checks can be made out to “Agile Sports Technologies” or “Hudl.”
Whenever we make a change to your invoice (due date, pricing, discounts, PO number), our system needs to work through the new information and generate a new invoice for your account on Hudl. It probably won’t take the full hour, but if you see it take longer, let us know. Send an email to .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) or call us at 402-817-0060.
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