Transcript KINOVEA

A BRIEF LOOK AT HOW KINOVEA HELPS IN
OBSERVATION
 Kinovea
is a free software
mainly used to analyse
videos frame by frame.
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Coaches and athletes use it to fine
tune techniques and also to measure
speed distance and height along with
many other desirable
intensions/purposes
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“Gteckers” used the videos to observe,
analyse and compare.
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Using kinovea to observe, analyse and
compare two manning cup prospects
while controlling and passing a foot
ball.
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Opening and playing a video
You can also use the menu File > Open or drag a file from the
Windows Explorer to Kinovea to open the corresponding file.
Once the video is opened, launch the playback with the player
controls or browse to an arbitrary location with the navigation
cursor.
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Move to an interesting period and use the
working zone start button .
Launch playback and let it run until the end
of the sequence to analyze. Hit the working
zone end button .
3. Increasing image size
 If image seems too small, use the little square
handles at the image corners.
Drag them until you are pleased with the
image size.
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In order to better study the motion,
slow down playback speed using the
speed cursor.
Zooming
Use CTRL + Mouse Wheel to zoom in the image
or unzoom. Move the zoomed image by
dragging it around with the hand tool
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2. Using the magnifier
Click the magnifier button in the drawings tool
bar .Hover your mouse on the image: the
magnified zone shows up in the top left
corner of the image.
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Click on image to temporary fix the source
zone.Four little corners are displayed around
the source zone to resize it.
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The Reverse function lets you play the motion
backward.
It simply revert the order of the images in the
working zone.
To enable the Reverse function, use the menu
Motion > Reverse.