How Do I Distribute My Video ?

Record To Tape

If you're still stuck in the VHS world, and you captured your video from a media converter, a miniDV camcorder or a Digital8 camcorder, you can use your media converter to create an analog video signal that can be recorded to tape.

Pictured above is the rear end of an ADVC110 from Thomson Grass Valley. You can connect this device to your Macintosh with the FireWire connector on the left. Connect it to your VCR with the analog video connectors on the right. TD Video can send a sequence of DV video clips out a FireWire port to the media converter and ultimately to your VCR for recording.

Record To DVD

With TD Video, you can export selected video as a QuickTime movie and drag and drop that into Apple's iDVD software to create a video DVD. TD Video is able to export a QuickTIme reference movie that refers to the original clips on your yard drive. You can create QuickTime reference movies very quickly.

Apple's iDVD software is used to create video DVDs. iDVD comes with a variety of menu styles to format your DVD. You can drag and drop pictures and video clips into iDVD to create the menus and your video content.

Video DVDs use the MPEG2 video format. iDVD must translate your video into the MPEG2 format. The first time you burn a DVD of a particular iDVD project can take significant time because of this MPEG2 translation. Make sure to use a modern Macintosh if you're going to record many DVDs.

Use Hard Drives

You can use external - portable hard drives to distribute video to your staff. You can copy a single camera high school game from one hard drive to another in 5 minutes or less. A two camera game takes about 10 minutes to copy.

TD Video licensing makes this affordable. Anyone can run TD Video in demo mode on a Macintosh for free. In demo mode, you can watch video, enter scouting data and view scouting reports. If your coaches are using TD Video to watch video - they get the benefit of no rewind delays and better quality slow motion or freeze frame video. Your coaches can watch better video faster with TD Video than with a DVD player.

The TD Video Viewer for Windows is also available for free. It has limited support for video formats. It works best with video from a miniDV camcorder. Coaches can enter data and view scouting reports with the TD Video Viewer for Windows. The TD Video Viewer for Windows uses Apple's QuickTime for Windows to display video. QuickTime for Windows does not support Apple's MPEG2 movie format or the Apple Intermediate Codec format for high definition.

Use Your Web Site

TD Video can create a web game so you can put your video on a web site. The web game consists of a web page for each play including a video clip of the play. Scoreboard information is also displayed for each play. Headers and footers can also be used to display some more information about plays. You'll need someone who knows how to build web sites to use this. You may want to password protect your web site too.

Click Here to See a Sample Web Game

Export Clips for Exchange

TD Video can export video clips in a variety of formats to support the exchange of video. You can export video in one large clip or as a folder of clips. You can reformat the video to conform to exchange standards. Types of video you can export include:

QuickTime Movies in several formats including H.264
DivX Files
Windows AVI files
MPEG-4 clips including H.264
iPhone, iPod and Apple TV movies
H.264 clips produced by elgato's Turbo.264 HD accelerator

You can exchange this clips with data DVDs, hard drives or over the internet. Some formats listed here are used by Game Tape Exchange, Dragon Fly Storm and DSV. You can exchange video over the internet using an established service, or create your own exchange using online storage products like Apple's MobileMe.