How to add Annotations to Clips – Catapult Vision Support

How to add Annotations to selected Clips

Navigate to the Organize Tab.
Click on the Tag from the Project Summary Box to bring up a playlist of clips that this selected Tag has been applied to. The playlist will populate under the Video Window.
From the playlist, click to select the clip that you want to add an annotation to. Navigate to the point in clip that you want to add annotations to.
Click the Edit button. The Edit button will turn orange when successfully selected and the annotation tool menu will populate in the top right corner of the video box.
Click the annotation icon from the annotation tool menu to add the annotation to the video clip. Once the annotation has been added, click the middle 'x' box to adjust the position on the video clip and click the surrounding boxes to adjust the size of the annotation or area affected.
Click the edit button once you have completed creating annotation. There will be two visual indicators that the annotation exists on the playlist, the Playlist clip will be marked with a and, the video window scrubber bar will show an annotation indicator with a vertical black line . To jump from annotation to annotation you can click the in the video window toolbar.

How to Delete Annotations

Click the newly added annotation located on the Video clip.
With the annotation select press Backspace on your keyboard.

Click the x beside the annotation name located beneath the Annotation tools.

Video Tutorial

Types of Annotations

Player Icon		Inserts colored circles beneath a player to highlight them.
Player Link Icon		Links Player Icons together.
Move a Player		Moves players from one position to another
Magnify		Zooms into selected area
Curved Line		Inserts a curved line
Line		Inserts a straight line
Transform Field		Transforms annotations to lay flat along the playing surface.
Polygon/Area		Inserts a Polygon
Circle		Inserts a circle
Text		Inserts text
Spot Shadow		Inserts a Player Spot Shadow
Free Draw		Users can freely draw on the screen

Specific Annotation Features Player Icon
	Template - Select the type of circles beneath a player Outer Color - Select the color of the outer circle Inner Color - Select the color of the inner circle Speed - Select the speed of rotation for the circles Use transform - Allows the circles to transform to the field
Player Link Icon	Template - Select the type of circles beneath a player Outer Color - Select the color of the outer circle Inner Color - Select the color of the inner circle Speed - Select the speed of rotation for the circles Line Width - Select the width of the connecting line Line Color - Select the color of the connecting line Fill Color - Number of Sides - Close Polygon - User Mask - Use transform - Allows the circles to transform to the field
Move Icon	Source Opacity - Adjust the level of transparency of the Player selected
Magnify Icon	Zoom - Adjust how magnified the selected area appears Background Opacity - Adjust the level of transparency of the selected area
Curved Line	Line Width - Select the width of the curved line Line Color - Select the color of the curved line Number of Nodes - The number of points on the line that can be selected to change the curve of the line Line End Caps - Change the symbol at the start and end of the curved line Use Mask - Enabling will result in a faded version of the curved line Use Transform - If the transform field option has been used, enabling will result in the curved line appearing flush with the playing surface
Line	Line Width - Select the width of the curved line Line Color - Select the color of the curved line Number of Nodes - The number of points on the line that can be selected to change the curve of the line Line End Caps - Change the symbol at the start and end of the curved line Use Mask - Enabling will result in a faded version of the curved line Use Transform - If the transform field option has been used, enabling will result in the line appearing flush with the playing surface
Transform	Reset - Resets the field markers to the original position. The transform annotation transforms annotations to lay flat along the playing surface. To use, drag and drop the corners of the transform grid to match that of the playing surface.
Polygon/Area	Line Width - Select the width of the line around the perimeter of the Polygon/Area Line Color - Select the color of the line around the perimeter of the Polygon/Area Fill Color - Select the color of the inner area of the Polygon/Area Number of Sides - Select the number of side of the Polygon/Area Use Mask - Enabling will result in a faded version of the Polygon/Area Use Transform - If the transform field option has been used and set, enabling will result in the Polygon/Area appearing flush with the playing surface
Circle	Line Width - Select the width of the line around the perimeter of the Circle Line Color - Select the color of the line around the perimeter of the Circle Fill Color - Select the color of the inner area of the Circle Use Mask - Enabling will result in a faded version of the Circle Use Transform - If the transform field option has been used and set, enabling will result in the Circle appearing flush with the playing surface
Text	Text - Type the text you want displayed into this box Text Color - Select the color of the text Text Size - Select the size of the text Use Transform - If the transform field option has been used and set, enabling will result in the text appearing flush with the playing surface
Spotlight	Style Picker- Allows for users to remember color patterns and recall them Outer Color- User chosen color selections Use Transform- Allow for the spotlight to be transformed to the media
Free Draw	Style Picker- Allows for users to remember color patterns and recall them Line Width- User defined line width Line Color- User defined line color picker Use Mask- Ability to mask onto video Use Transform- Allow for the spotlight to be transformed to the media

How to add Annotations to selected Clips

How to Delete Annotations

Video Tutorial

Types of Annotations

Specific Annotation Features

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