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How to add Annotations to Clips

Matt Estrella
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How to add Annotations to selected Clips 

  1. Navigate to the Organize Tab.

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  2. 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.

  3. 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.

  4. 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.

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  5. 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.

  6. 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 

  1. Click the newly added annotation located on the Video clip.

  2. With the annotation select press Backspace on your keyboard.

OR

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

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Video Tutorial 

 

Types of Annotations

 Player Icon playertracking.png Inserts colored circles  beneath a player to highlight them. Untitled_2__12_.png
 Player Link Icon PT2.png Links Player Icons together.  Untitled_3__2_.png
 Move a Player  run.png

 Moves players from one position to another

 
 Magnify zoom.png  Zooms into selected area  
 Curved Line curve.png  Inserts a curved line  
 Line line.png  Inserts a straight line  
 Transform Field box.png Transforms annotations to lay flat along the playing surface.
Polygon/Area  s2.png  Inserts a Polygon  
 Circle circle.png  Inserts a circle  
 Text T.png  Inserts text  

 

Specific Annotation Features 

Player Icon
player_icon.png

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 Iconplayerlink.png

 

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
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Source Opacity - Adjust the level of transparency of the Player selected

Magnify Icon
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Zoom - Adjust how magnified the selected area appears 

Background Opacity - Adjust the level of transparency of the selected area

Curved Linecurved_line.png

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

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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 tranform.png

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 polygon.png

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
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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
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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

 

 

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