March 27 , 2012
Added New HUDL friendly features.
Added new command to export play data as a .csv file that can be uploaded to a HUDL game. Just press control shift I in the HUDL editor to upload it. Also changed Export Folder of Clips to check and see that all selected plays have a clip for the selected camera. This helps ensure that a folder of clips exported for HUDL will have the correct number of clips to match up with play data exported for HUDL.
September 19 , 2011
Improved Import from iMovie 8-9-11. If Autosync is applicable, TD Video automatically shows the Clips In Time view with predicted landing spots for new clips and existing plays.
May 17 , 2011
Improved Export as Web Site. Web pages now include an index page that lets you jump to any play in a game.
April 11 , 2011
Fixed scoring bug in Export as Web Site.
February 24 , 2011
Improved Export as Web Site for Safari users. Safari is used by iPad, iPod and iPhone for web browsing. Apple suggests using HTML5 video tags to send video to Safari. Safari uses QuickTime to display this video.
February 10 , 2011
Improved support for WMV clips. Added ability to export a folder of WMV clips. This may be useful for users utilizing DSV for online video trading.
January 24 , 2011
Changed window layout to take advantage of very large displays. Fixed bug related to missing clips.
November 24 , 2010
Fixed bug in Merge Open Projects into New Project.
November 3 , 2010
Improved Clips In Time View.
October 25 , 2010
Changed iMovie Import to list iMovie 11. This is the iMovie that comes with iLife 11. Also changed the iMovie 08-09-11 import to let a user specify if the video came from a miniDV, HDV, AVCHD or MPEG2 camcorder. The timing information that comes from a standard definition MPEG2 camcorder is handled differently than the rest. This enables accurate auto synchronization of multiple cameras.
October 18 , 2010
Fixed a bug in Export A Game As A Website. It now generates a web page for the last play in the game, even if the last play has 1 video clip that is not from the camera that you asked for.
October 4 , 2010
Changed Settings menu Video Display Quality to support individual quality settings for each camera. MPEG2 camercorders work best with the High Quality setting. miniDV and HD camcorders work best with the Deinterlaced setting. If you have a mix of camcorder types, now you can adjust the settings accordingly.
September 28, 2010
Fixed a bug with reports to allow for more than 100 passing play types.
September 25, 2010
Removed AVI export to Export Selected Plays As - because Apple's AVI export only works for files up to a gigabyte in size. Added playback buttons to Display 2 and Video on Black Background view. Centered oversized video. Fixed bug where movie controller was on top of video. Enhanced Duplicate Project to announce what drive it just finished with, offer to eject drive once its done.
September 11, 2010
Added AVI export to Export Selected Plays As.
September 9, 2010
Fixed a bug with calculating penalties in the Game Stats Report. Added some logic to assign the team field when you create a new play, based on the results of the previous play.
September 8, 2010
Fixed a bug with Exporting a game as a Web Site. Added U for Penalty and X for Interception as keyboard short cuts.
August 26, 2010
Added ability to reformat game by camera. Added ability to recognize clips with mp4 extension when importing. Added ability to use Flip4Mac export component to export WMV files.
July 21, 2010
Fixed installer issue related to new purple key driver.
April 21, 2010
Fixed bug with clip menu when there were more than 2 clips per play. Updated purple key driver.
March 9, 2010
Added ability to export a duplicate clip from the File menu.
January 12, 2010
Added MPEG-4 export. H.264 is a varient of MPEG-4. You can export a folder of clips or one large clip.
December 15, 2009
Improved exporting video for compatibility with iMovie 8.x. Added Export Folder of Clips. You can import a folder of clips into iMovie 8. If the data browser is open and you have sorted your plays, the exported clips will be in sorted order. Also added ability to export a folder of reformated QuickTime movies, AVI clips, DivX Clips, and H.264 clips created with an elgato Turbo.264 excellerator. We're hoping these other export folder formats can be used to exchange clips with your opponents.
December 2, 2009
A new help menu has been added. It provides reminders about the data entry keys, and the video playback keys. Many of the data entry popup menus now show their corresponding data entry keys.
November 2, 2009
Fixed bug regarding Merge Project command. New merged document is named properly now.
October 28, 2009
TD Video now captures the time and date that a play was created. It can use that information to automatically synchronize your video with your play data. If you enter game data live at a game and capture the video after the game with iMovie 7 or iMovie 8 (part of iLife 08 or 09), then TD Video can automatically synchronize your clips with your play data. Remember to synchronize your computer and camcorder clocks before the game.
Carry More Data Forward now has a Set As Default button. If you use that button, you should not have to use the Carry More Data Forward command after you create a new project to set the fields that you always want carried forward.
The Drive Chart has been improved. It shows a series of downs that all have positive yardage as one line, instead of one line per play. This saves a little room and makes the chart a little easier to comprehend. It also shows selected plays only, and scales the line widths when it has room. So if you select the Offense only, the bars become wider and easier to see. Lines for plays by the offense can depict which hash the play started on and whether the play went left, forward or to the right based on running holes or passing zones entered.
You can also skip forward 2 seconds by pressing "Control - Right Arrow". Control - Left Arrow skips back 2 seconds.
October 2, 2009
Fixed bug regarding a video clip that is missing. It no longer bombs if you click on a missing video clip.
September 30, 2009
Fixed bug with initializing some menus when opening a document.
September 29, 2009
Fixed bug when splitting a clip between two plays. Clip menu showed none instead of a clip name.
September 24, 2009
Changed Duplicate Project function for multiple targets. You can use this to copy a game to multiple hard drives. It now does it one hard drive at a time instead of doing all simultaneously.
September 23, 2009
Improved Clips In Time View. Improved handing of missing 2nd display at start up. Fixed bug regarding the display of missing clip info in the multi clip view.
September 21, 2009
Multi clip view window is now resized properly. Caps Lock will cause tabbing in reverse order. If Caps Lock is on, the Tab key will start out in the Player 1 field instead of End On. With Caps Lock on, you can tab into Player 1, enter the ball carrier's number and tab again to get to End On.
September 10, 2009
Video on Display 2 now has a movie controller. Fixed a couple bugs.
September 8, 2009
You can set resolution when you reformat a game. If you capture iMovie's Large HD 960 x 540 video, now you can recompress it as wide screen DV at 853 x 480 resolution. This gives you the ability to display video shot with an HD camcorder on a Windows PC using TD Video Viewer.
Added the ability to rearrange the order of clips based on camera. Some users can watch the wide clip first. Others can watch the "Other" clip first. For us - Wide is wide screen DV for Windows users, Other is HD Large for Mac users with large enough displays.
August 27, 2009
Fixed a bug associated with changing the camera for a clip. Similar bug for changing the quarter of a play and moving the clips from one quarter to another.
You can now set the resolution when you import a folder of clips or import from iMovie. If you mix video resolutions within a game this should make that easier. We're shooting wide screen from the pressbox (853 x 480) and standard (720 x 480) from the endzone.
August 21, 2009
Mostly, TD Video 4.6 has lots of modernized code that takes advantage of newer interfaces to Mac OS X. Theoretically, its more efficient opening files and playing video. You may not be able to tell.
If you are happy with 4.5, you may want to use 4.5 until 4.6 gets some experience.
TD Video 4.6 uses Mac OS X version 10.4 or newer to copy files, instead of using the Finder. You will see differences in duplicate project, and import folders of clips - iMovie import because of this. A new command - Merge Open Projects Into New Project is functionally the old Duplicate Project. The new Duplicate Project does not merge and can copy to multiple hard drives simultaneously.
Export to a website now uses Java to display QuickTime movies. This should be more portable in the Windows environment. The page for a play has been rearranged to make it smaller, and to automatically resize it to fit different video clip sizes. Support for Apple's iPhone, iPod, and Apple TV video exports was added. You can view a game from a website with an iPod Touch if you like. Support for Elgato's turbo.264 HD hardware compression product was also added. We have created a high school game as a web site in 40 minutes using the Elgato turbo.264 HD.
Support for exporting QuickTime movies created with Elgato's turbo.264 HD hardware compression product was added. This device costs around $150 and accelerates the creation of QuickTime movies encoded with the H.264 video compression standard.
A small control was added next to the End On yard line field. This control lets you add a yard or substract a yard from the end on yard line quickly. Should be useful during live game capture.
A new command - "Split a Video Clip into 2 Clips" was added. Should be useful for users of Dragon Fly Storm which provides video that has already been intercut. You can use this to cut 2 clips out of one large clip and keep them on the same play.
Added video resolutions to support high definition 720p and 1080i or 1080p camcorders.
November 26, 2008
Fixed a bug with scoring a safety while punting.
October 10, 2008
Fixed a problem with counting kick offs and punts returned for a touchdown. Also the data browser window remembers where it was, so if you close it and open it, the new window is created where the old one was.
September 22, 2008
Fixed a problem with counting turn overs by down in the Game Statistics report.
September 12, 2008
Fixed a problem with trimming clips that reside on an MS-DOS formatted volume (hard drive).
September 3, 2008
Improved the Export Selected Plays as a Website feature. Video clips can now be 480 x 360 in size or smaller. Modernized the look of the web pages. Added headers and footers above and below the video. Changed Continue Building Web Site to regenerate all of the web pages.
June 18, 2008
Added the ability to export selected plays as reformatted QuickTime Movies, QuickTime Movies for iPod, iPhone, Apple TV and to export selected plays as DivX movies. To export DivX movies you'll need to purchase ($20) and download the DivX software from www.divx.com.
April 18, 2008
Export a QuickTime Movie will now export clips in sorted order if the Data Browser window is in front.
April 11, 2008
Improved performance when presenting a sequence of selected plays.
March 24, 2008
Fixed bug with importing folder of clips - manual sync.
February 3, 2008
Turned many main menu items into sub menus to better organize and simplify the user interface. Updated manual. Changed version number to 4.5. New features added over the last year include support for higher resolution camcorders, open folder of games, iMovie 7 import, Clips in Time View, Data Entry Lists View and the automatic synchronization of imported clips.
January 27, 2008
Improved handling of a game with more than one resolution of video. Lets say you're using a high definition camera in the pressbox and a standard definition camera in the endzone. With iMovie 7, you can capture that high definition video at half resolution. Full resolution HD video is 1920 x 1080. Half resolution HD is 960 by 540. Standard definition resolution is 720 by 480. Now when you change from a Half HD clip to a standard def clip, TD Video will erase the extra space around the edges - sort of like watching letter boxed standard definition video on a high definition TV.
Oh by the way - half resolution HD video looks great in TD Video. It has roughly 50% more pixels than standard definition, and takes up 50% more disk space. It works great with an XGA projector (resolution of XGA is 1024 by 768).
January 15, 2008
Fixed bug with sending sound out through FireWire. Changed dates to 2008.
November 8, 2007
Fixed menuing bug that was revealed by Mac OS v10.5 - Leopard. Fixed import folder of clips bug that appeared with Leopard. Fixed navigation services issues that were revealed with PlayMaker Pro and Leopard. Navigation services provides standard open file and save file dialogs.
October 22, 2007
Import a Folder of clips can now synchronize clips from multiple cameras automatically. This only works when the clips are captured live at the game with TD Video - or if the clips are captured with iMovie 7 (comes with iLife 08) from a digital camcorder. Clips captured live with TD Video use their file create time to match up with other clips. Clips imported from iMovie 7 have their create time embedded in their file names. Make sure you set the clock in the camera before the game.
Before you auto synchronize, you'll want to determine the difference in clock times between your recording devices to make your sync more accurate. For example, lets say you used two laptops to capture your cameras live at a game. Check out the clocks on both laptops using the Date & Time System Preference. Lets say you're importing the clips from the end zone laptop into the game from the press box laptop, and the end zone laptop's clock is 19 seconds faster than the press box laptop. TD Video will prompt you for a time off set when you import the endzone camera clips. In this example - that offset should be "-19" seconds. TD Video will then subtract 19 seconds from the clock values for the endzone camera to more accurately synchronize those clips with the pressbox laptops' clips.
After importing a folder of clips using Automatic synchronization - you'll still want to verify that the clips are where they should be. You may have to move a few of them. You can use the Clips In Time View to look for problems. Auto Sync takes away a lot of the stress of inter cutting cameras.
Fixed a bug with Exporting a QuickTime movie. If you exported more than once, TD Video did not start at the beginning of multiple games after the first export.
Added statistics to the Run Hole Analysis and Pass Zone Analysis reports. Those reports now show how many plays originated from the left hash, right hash or the middle of the field.
October 7, 2007
Changed Data Entry Lists view to show longer lists when using 2 displays.
September 17, 2007
Fixed Carry Data Forward to handle a two point conversion better. Improved Clips In Time View.
September 11, 2007
Increased internal limits for user field items from 160 items to 300.
September 10 , 2007
Fixed a bug related to User Field titles. If you change a user field title or Import Titles and User Field Values or Load All Default Titles and Values - Now the titles in the tab control of the Data Entry Lists view will be updated properly.
September 7 , 2007
Changed calculation of many percentages in reports so they are rounded instead of being truncated. Added scramble and sack yards to game statistics.
Added new view called Clips In Time. TD Video uses clip file creation dates and clip durations to create a time line of clips. You can use this to help sort out multiple cameras. It only works with clips captured in your computer in real time at the game, or clips captured with iMovie 7. iMovie 7 embeds the clip creation time (from the camera's clock) in the clip file name. TD Video gets its clip time from this embedded create time. Use Page Up and Page Down to go from play to play in this view.
August 28, 2007
Changed running hole labels and passing zone labels so they can be customized for each game.
August 27, 2007
Fixed sensing for the Shift key. You can use the Shift when clicking on columns in the databrowser to sort by multiple columns. Shift key sensing was unreliable for some computers - probably Intel based Macs. A new method is being used to test for the Shift key that appears to be more reliable.
August 25, 2007
Changed Import a Folder of Clips to accomodate iMovie 7 from iLife 08. You can Import an iMovie 7 Event folder to import video captured by iMovie 7. This gives you access to new camcorders supported by iMovie 7 including JVC hard disk drive camcorders that store their video in the MPEG2 format.
August 20, 2007
Fixed a bug when you went to a previous clip while the databrowser was open. The scoreboard was drawn in the databrowser's window. Also changed so the project is saved automatically after editing a list.
April 11, 2007
Added new View that lets you pick user field values and run pass kick values using lists instead of popup menus.
Added ability to import user field lists and run and pass lists from another project or game.
When using dual monitor mode, now you see a wider play list that shows all the fields instead of a scoreboard.
Fixed bugs related to importing folder of clips, and dividing clips in half.
February 20, 2007
Fixed a bug for Intel based Macs - You can export video through FireWire with color bars, a title screen, and score boards just like the PowerPC version.
Fixed a bug for Intel based Macs - Buttons with icons in them work better now. These include the camera button, the clips button, the record and stop record buttons and the voice recognition button.
January 25, 2007
Fixed a bug when you duplicate multiple games at once.
Added command to Open Folder of Projects. You could put your games from a season in a folder, and Open Folder of Projects to open all the games in a season with one command.
December 4, 2006 - The following changes happened during the 2006 season.
Replaced the Installer Vise installer with Apple's PackageMaker/Installer Installer. TD Video Universal Installer looks like a package and requires a password for installation.
TD Video is now a standalone icon in the Applications folder. The old TD Video 3.7 and earlier was located in a TD Video Folder inside the applications folder. You may want to put old versions of TD Video in the trash and empty the trash, so the old versions can not run.
Updated software for Safenet purple copy protection key. Purple copy protection key now works with Intel based Macs.
Added support for Arena Football Fields.
Duplicate Project command will create one merged project, if multiple projects are open.
Changed video capture to be more efficient with Mac OS X. TD Video 4.0 requires Mac OS 10.3.9 or newer (no longer works with Mac OS 9). Video capture performs much better. Much reduced lag time when you stop recording a clip.
Changed data entry while capturing video. Data entry now displays immediately while capturing video. You can enter several speedy data entry keys during video capture and see the results immediately.
Added a couple player fields to the Live Capture View, so you can enter the quarterback and ball carrier while you're capturing video live at a game. Some player stats are now available at the end of the game.
Added the ability to turn on Carry Data Forward for the user defined popup menus, run types, pass types, and the player number fields. This speeds up data entry for fields that don't change much (for example - Quarterback).
Added the ability to adjust the yardage values for short, medium, long, and extra long situations and where the red zone begins.
Added speedy data entry keys for setting cameras - W for Wide, Y for Tight, E for Rover.
Added new Result values - Turnover (for turnover on downs), and Nearly Fumbled. Also added Dropped and Defended to pass results.
Changed loading default user field items so it does not zero out field values when the old menu and default menu have items in common. If an old menu and a new default menu have similar values, you don't lose all the data that was entered.
Reworked all dialog boxes and windows to make them OS X specific. You should not see any OS 7-8-9 fonts (chicago or charcoal) displayed in any window. All lists are now displayed using Apple's databrowser control instead of the OS 7 List manager. All lists should support scrolling with a mouse with a scroll wheel including Apple's new Mighty Mouse.
Added new Video Display quality named "Deinterlace". This looks better than High Quality. This new video quality reduces digital video fragments. Yard lines will appear less pixelated when the camera's not moving.
August 29, 2006 - Added new Features to Improve live capture of video at a game
Added new Live Capture View with just the data fields that I enter during a game. Check it out under the View menu.
Added new speedy data entry key "N". "N" changes the Result field to "TBD" to quickly get rid of Penalties that have been nullified.
Added New Play command under the Edit menu to create a play. This lets you create a new play in Views that don't have a New Play button.
August 27, 2006 - Added new functionality to accelerate intercutting of multiple cameras. Two new commands let you push a single cllp up or down a play. In the multi clip view, you can click on a clip to select it, so you can delete that clip or push it to another play within the multi clip view. No need to switch to another view to delete a clip. You can also delete a play from the multi clip view now too.
August 25, 2006 - Added functionality to support JVC hard disk drive cameras - not recommended.
You can quickly copy the SD_VIDEO folder from a JVC hard drive camera to your hard drive using the Finder and a USB2 connection (Yahoo - faster than real time capture). In that folder you'll find folders labeled like PRG001 which contain a group of clips in MPEG2 format, although their file extension is .MOD.
The Import Folder of Clips function now recognizes these .MOD files as coming from the JVC Cameras, and copies them to your TD Video project while changing their file extension to .mpeg. These MPEG2 files are viewable if you purchase Apple's MPEG2 viewer component for QuickTime from the Apple online store ($20). iDVD is not compatible with these files. Since they are not DV streams, you can not send them to tape using your media converter.
Added new command to Reformat all the video in a TD Video project. This lets you convert the MPEG2 files to any QuickTime movie format including DV / DVCPRO - NTSC, which is what we usually capture in TD Video. These clips converted from MPEG2 to DV / DVCPRO - NTSC play more smoothly in TD Video, and can be viewed as QuickTIme movies on Windows PCs. The reformatted clips play well within TD Video. You can send them to tape with a media converter and use them with iDVD, but they don't look good. Looks like some kind of interlace problem. The MPEG2 files do play back smoothly on a Windows PC using the Windows Media Player.
August 22, 2006 - Fixed it so you can delete a play in the Multi Clip View
August 21, 2006 - Made the Universal version available for testing. This version requires Mac OS 10.3 or newer and runs faster on Intel based Macs. It actually contains two executable programs, one for PowerPC based Macs and one for Intel based Macs. Universal TD Video uses Apple's new XCode development environment. All future versions of TD Video will be Universal and require Mac OS 10.3 or newer.
July 24, 2006 - FIxed a potential bug in Build A Website from Selected Plays
May 2006 - You can sort by multiple fields in the data browser now. First click on the heading for your primary field. Then shift click on the headings for a second field, third field, fourth field, etc.
Also fixed a bug - TD Video used to bomb if you exported a QuickTime movie and no video clips were selected.
June 1, 2006
- Added ability to Hide and Show Headers and Footers under the Settings menu
- Added Hashmarks to Header and Footer menus
- Limited iDVD chapters to 99 to conform to Video DVD specifications
- Added passing completetion percentages and touchdown info to Situation Analysis report and User Field Analysis reports.
April 2006 - Exporting a self contained QuickTime movie works again.
After the season was over, we met with the Grand Valley State staff. The following changes were made.
You can scale the video to 120% so the document window fills the display on a 15 inch laptop.
Printing a View with video in it now shows the video plus any drawing over it. Printing the Video on Black Background view shows the headers and footers above and below the video.
A new command under the Edit menu lets you load all default user fields, player titles, run types and pass types.
The window that lets you customize running hole values was improved. You can use letters for holes if you like.
A new command was added so you can customize the values for passing zones. You can use letters for zones too.
A new command under the Settings menu lets you select which variables show in the data browser.
The data export function is enhanced if the data browser window is in front. Exported data is sorted the same as the data browser and with the columns in the same order as the data browser. The same columns displayed in the data browser will be exported by default.
The data browser sort for Down now sorts Down and Distance.
If you change some play data, and the data browser is open, the browser window gets updated.
Player Numbers can range from 1 to 999 instead of from 1 to 99.
Duplicating a project now prompts you to see if you want to duplicate all plays or just selected plays and video. This enables you to delete the unselected plays in a project if you like.
The following changes were made during the 2005 football season.
Tite is now spelled Tight.
The Home Team is now called the Scout Team. The Away Team is now referred to as the Opponent.
The ShuttlePro settings file has been revised. If you use a ShuttlePro, re-import the settings file into your ShuttlePro software. Now when you turn the black twisty ring on the ShuttlePro all the way, the play moves forward at regular speed. Twisting it less than all the way gives 6 different levels of slow motion. The bottom two buttons also were changed to provide Mark Start and Mark End functionality.
The data view report reports on multiple games.
All multigame reports are on a new Reports menu.
Reports from the Reports menu are displayed in a new resizeable window.
The data view report uses Apple's Data Browser to display all the play data that you can enter. The data browser lets you rearrange the columns in the report and sort plays based on the contents of a column. Some columns (Play Type and User Field columns) also sort plays by run type, run holes, pass types and passing zones. So - if you have a user field called Formations and sort on it, your plays for a particular formation will also be sorted by run type, run hole, pass type and pass zone.
With the Data Browser window in front, pressing page down or page up takes you to plays in the order that they are displayed.
Presenting a Sequence of Selected Plays (with the data browser window in front) presents the plays in the order that they are displayed.
You can draw on video with your mouse. Video clips must not be playing to do this. To erase your drawings, just play the clip, and the drawings will disappear. This works for video rendered on a Macintosh display (doesn't work for video exported to a FireWire device). You can change the color of the drawing pen with the Colors submenu under the Settings menu.
Exporting QuickTime movies is faster. In addition to being faster:
Exported QuickTime movies can have Chapter Lists added. The chapter list shows up in the QuickTime player as a popup menu. You can use the menu to go directly to any play in the movie. You can easily use the menu to go to the beginning of the play that you are viewing. This also works with QuickTime for Windows. You could save QuickTime reference movies for a whole game, offense, defense, and special teams in a TD Video project folder. Then copy the project folder to a Windows computer for viewing.
Exported QuickTime movies can have Chapter Lists that iDVD recognizes. If you have TD Video add the iDVD Chapter list to an exported QuickTime movie and drop it into iDVD - iDVD will create a chapter list for the imported video. That means you can watch video on your set top DVD player, and press the Prev button on your remote to go to the beginning of a play. The Next button on your remote will take you to the next play.
A new command is available to import video from iMovie HD projects. This lets the regular iMovie import work for users of Mac OS 10.2.x.
A new command "Import Folder of Clips..." has been added so you can import a folder full of clips. You might use this to reconstruct a game when something goes wrong. You could capture your Tight clips on one Mac and simultaneously capture your wide clips on another. Then import clips from one project to the other to create checkerboards faster. Hopefully, you could use this to import clips from a FireStore device too.
Video clips can be scaled up in size to take advantage of larger displays. Under the Settings menu - try out the Display Clip Size submenu. There's also a Display 2 Clip Size submenu for video that's displayed on a secondary display.
The SVGA Mirroring view is now called Video on Black Background. It centers the video on your screen now, instead of assuming you're using an SVGA 800 by 600 display. You can use the Display Clip Size menu to enlarge the video. So if your projector is XGA (1024 by 768), you can do video mirroring on a black background and fill the screen with scaled up video. Hopefully, that's simpler than setting your display to SVGA with a projector attached.