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Create Powerful Highlights • AI-Generated Highlights • Recruiting Video Templates • Vertical Reels

Give your athletes the tools they need to stand out on and off the court. With built-in editing features, players and coaches can create personalized highlights that showcase key moments—ready to share with family, friends and recruiters.

Ways to create highlights

Highlights can be created in two ways:

  • From the Highlights tab: Start from scratch using the toolbar
  • From the video player: Clip moments directly while reviewing film

Creating a Highlight from the Highlights Tab

Follow these steps to build a new highlight:

  1. Select Create Highlight or open an existing draft
  2. Choose Start from Scratch or select from AI-Generated Highlight Templates
  3. Title your highlight
  4. Select Add Videos
  5. Choose the video(s) you want to pull clips from
  6. Add selected clips to your highlight

Pro Tip: Use filters when creating position- or skill-specific highlights (for example, attacking highlights). Filtering by action allows you to quickly add clips from the filtered results to build a focused, polished highlight.

Exporting Your Highlight

Once your highlight is complete, you can customize the settings and export it for sharing.

  1. Review your highlight settings, including:
    1. Video orientation (horizontal or vertical)
    2. Active player highlighting
    3. Clip transitions
    4. Overlay options
      1. Scoreboard Overlay
      2. Setting Trajectories
      3. Speed Overlay
      4. Play Name Action Overlay
  2. When your settings are finalized, select Export
  3. Review your export details:
    1. Highlight name
    2. Sound on or off
    3. Whether you want the highlight to be featured on Hudl
  4. Select Export Video
  5. Your highlight will appear in your library once processing is complete

Creating highlights is easier than ever with AI-Generated Highlight Templates. Let our AI do the heavy lifting by automatically filtering and organizing your clips based on skill or position.

Create an AI-Generated Highlight

Follow these steps to get started:

  1. Navigate to the Highlights tab
  2. Select Create Highlight
  3. Browse the available AI-Generated Highlight Templates by skill or position
  4. Select a template to automatically organize relevant clips into a highlight

Recruiting Video Templates help athletes present their highlights in a polished, professional way. Choose from a variety of visuals designed to organize key information and elevate your team’s branding, making recruiting videos easy for college coaches to review.

Use Recruiting Video Templates

Follow these steps to add visuals to your highlight:

  1. While editing your highlight video, select Add Visuals in the top-right corner of the screen
  2. Choose a visual from the available options:
    1. Slides
    2. Logo Overlays
    3. Outros
  3. The selected visual will automatically be added to your highlight video

Vertical Reels are designed for sharing highlight videos on social media. Since social platforms play a key role in recruiting, this format ensures your highlights are optimized for where coaches, family, and followers are most likely to watch.

Create a Vertical Reel

Follow these steps to export a vertical highlight:

  1. While reviewing your Highlight Export settings, open the drop-down under Aspect Ratio
  2. Select Vertical (9:16)
  3. Export your video as usual
  4. Your vertical reel will appear in your Highlights library, ready to share

Highlight videos are one of the most important tools in the recruiting process. A strong highlight reel helps coaches quickly evaluate your skills, role fit, and overall impact. Use the tips below to make sure your film stands out.

Lead With Your “Wow” Moments

You have 30–60 seconds to grab a coach’s attention, so make them count. Skip the slow build and place your strongest clips at the very beginning to spark interest and keep them watching.

Prioritize Position-Specific Skills

Coaches want to quickly see how you perform in your primary role. Lead with the skills that matter most for your position. For example, outside hitters should feature hitting first, followed by passing. Avoid opening with secondary skills like serving.

Focus on Quality Over Quantity

A short, high-impact video is more powerful than a long one filled with average plays. Aim for about 60 seconds of elite-level performance. If a clip doesn’t reflect your best, leave it out.

 

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