What Can I Do With TD Video ?TD Video and your Macintosh become a digital VCR for your camcorder. You can transfer video without quality loss from a digital camcorder to your Mac and view it with TD Video.
You can watch high quality video faster and with better slow motion and freeze frame than with a DVD player. You can watch any play in a game instantly. You can watch a play several times with near zero rewind delays. You can view high quality digital video on your Mac at regular speed, in slow motion or freeze frame, in forward direction or reverse. You can draw on the video when its not moving.
With TD Video, you capture game video in your computer as play clips and enter data describing each play. When you're done you can produce video on demand with no fast forward or rewind delays. You select plays in a game that you want to see either manually or based on the data that you entered and view the plays immediately. In the example above, the plays by the Offense are selected. You can instantly move from one selected play to another. You don't wait for cutup tapes or dvds - you select the plays you want to watch in seconds and watch them.
You can use TD Video to manage video clips from multiple cameras. This is called intercutting or checkerboarding. The example below shows a play with 2 clips. TD Video can handle up to 4 cameras for each play.
You can analyze your team or your opponents based on the data you enter. You can use TD Video's scouting reports to discover tendencies. Scouting reports help you determine When a team runs or passes, Where they like to run or pass to and in What situations.
You can also sort plays in a game to watch several examples of your opponents most frequent plays. You can resequence play video based on the play data you have entered.
The example above shows TD Video's Play Data Browser report with the plays sorted by Play Type (Run / Pass / Kick). To sort by Play Type, you just click on the Play Type column heading. You can easily show your players several similar examples of your opponent's favorite plays.
Why use a Macintosh for TD Video ?
Macs are built to do video. Every Macintosh is a very reliable video editing machine. Macs come with Apple's iMovie video editing software. Everything TD Video needs from your Mac is built in and tested by Apple. No need to debug third party hardware. Macs with Superdrives (Apple's DVD burners) also come with iDVD - free software for burning video DVDs.
Apple's iMovie and iDVD software compliment TD Video's capabilities. TD Video can import video from iMovie, and export video to iMovie and iDVD. iMovie lets you add transitions, titles and music to your highlight video. With TD Video, iMovie, and iDVD working as a team, you get a lot for your money.
Of course - if your school is Macintosh based - using Mac based software like TD Video only makes sense.
Technology Used
BW Software is developing "TD Video" for Macintosh computers using Apple's QuickTime multimedia technology.
You can capture video with TD Video or using Apple's iMovie software. TD Video can capture video from FireWire camcorders (miniDV & Digital8). You can use iMovie to capture video from miniDV, Digital8, hard drive camcorders and flash memory based camcorders. Digital video captured with TD Video or iMovie remains in its orginal form and looks great.
Analog (VHS or SVHS) video can be digitized using a device called a Media Converter with minor quality loss. Some miniDV camcorders will convert analog video to digital. Analog video that has been digitized has good quality, just not as good as video that came directly from a digital camcorder.
