Studio - Your New Home for Telestration

Your New Home for Telestration

We’ll help you get to know our brand new graphics tool that’s seamlessly integrated with Hudl Sportscode, and the full range of Hudl Pro Suite products.

Hudl Sportscode users can now quickly add professional, dynamic drawings and graphics to multiple angles in video packages, all within one ecosystem of products.

Studio has been designed and engineered to specifically address the visualization needs of analysts and coaches, to empower them to quickly and effectively enhance their analysis workflows.

Save Time

Studio opens right from Hudl Sportscode for hassle-free, two-way sharing of video and graphics packages.

• No need to export, import or realign video • Automatically sync multiple angles • Seamlessly pull team data from Wyscout

Experience Auto-Tracking Technology

There’s no longer any need to manually track players with graphics. Simply highlight the player and computer vision will does the rest.

• Broadcast-quality graphics • Automatic chroma keying • Simple calibration

Improve Communication

Give players enhanced visual feedback in multiple angles. • Built for analysts and coaches • Removes conversation barriers • Free with Hudl Sportscode (Elite)

Key Features

Easy Imports

With your Hudl Sportscode playlist open, simply select the clips you want to import using the usual hotkeys (control + shift), click “Add Graphics”, and they’ll immediately be transferred to Studio. No matter how many clips you select, there won’t be a delay in this seamless import process.

Artificial Intelligence

The computer vision algorithm uses artificial intelligence to detect the chroma key automatically, then calibrates the pitch, reducing the time-consuming setup process required with many third-party telestration softwares. AI also automates the player tracking so users no longer need to manually track players when adding graphics. Simply highlight the player and computer vision will do the rest.

Drawing Tools

Studio allows you to add professional, dynamic drawings and graphics to multiple angles in your video packages. Graphics can be two-dimensional or three-dimensional and you can preset graphical styles and conventions to further speed up the process.

Visual Learning

Engage players and help translate key coaching points with enhanced visual feedback. In Studio, one click allows you to place a pose on a player with the move player tool. You can also add drawings and highlight zones on the pitch where you want the pass to land. These principles can be used in any facet of the match, so defender movements can be tracked in the same way.

Customizable Designs

There’s a large range of properties that allow for different looking drawings. You can also create your own design language conventions to best express your personal analysis, plus set graphical styles and conventions to make future projects quicker, easier and consistent.

Multiple Camera Angles

When you import clips to Studio from Hudl Sportscode, they’re placed in the playlist panel—from there you can easily switch between camera angles depending on what best suits your analysis. Adding telestration graphics to one camera angle is automatically replicated on the other camera angles, allowing you to do the work once but convey the same feedback message from alternate camera angles.

Connectivity with Wyscout API

Studio allows you to create naming labels for your players, which appear on the pitch next to the linked player. You can create as many labels as you want and save them as a team. If your Wyscout API is integrated with Studio, you’ll be able to search for any team worldwide, with full data including the last 20 matches a team has played. This adds further timesaving benefits because you no longer need to manually add player names. Simply drag and drop from the menu.

Presentations

In Studio, you can take the analysis you’re working from and easily move it to an external monitor with one simple drag of the mouse. This allows you to present your analysis while simultaneously working on your telestration on your original screen. You can co-produce the analysis with fellow analysts or coaching staff as you collaborate on the key coaching points and adjust the telestration in real time.

Andy Findlay:

How Studio Enhanced My Workflow

Following the launch of Studio during Hudl Presents: Performance Analysis, we spoke to Andy Findlay, Senior Performance Analyst at Norges Fotballforbund, to gain insight into how Studio is enhancing a high performance workflow.

It’s Findlay’s role to provide both live and post-match analysis across the “A squad” and a range of youth squads within the Federation, both for men’s and women’s teams. In his own words, he wants, “To try and build a structure that means that we can make the communication processes as smooth and as detailed as possible.”

A big part of developing efficient workflows is finding ways to save time on menial tasks in order to have more time for deeper analysis. Studio provides efficiency savings for high performance workflows that make Findlay and his team’s jobs easier, especially during the busiest times. “We play two away games and a home game in the space of a week, which is a lot of travel and quick turnarounds,” said Findlay. “The fact that the calibration is automated from the start of the clip means you don't have to spend a long time getting things ready. It’s almost a case of import your clips, jump on it, and then you can start to do the output. So, I think it's really adaptable, really time efficient.”

In Studio, Hudl Sportscode users can now quickly add professional, dynamic drawings and graphics to multiple angles in video packages. This new enhanced workflow, which integrates with the Hudl ecosystem of products, has easily been adopted by Findlay’s team.

“With telestration, there may be a fear factor with coaches sometimes. You see a lot of timelines, images, effects and different widgets and think ‘That looks complicated, I haven't got that much time,’” said Findlay. “Whereas with Studio, if a coach was doing a one-to-one session with a player and just wanted to add the tracking of one disc on that player or highlight a space, it can take two minutes.

“So for a coach coming back in from a session, in 15, 20 minutes you might be able to do five to 10 clips easily with annotation, and then you're ready to go. So within half an hour you've done a fully annotated presentation for players.”

Working directly with coaches is a key part of any analyst’s workflow and Studio allows for quick editing of clips. Studio opens right from Hudl Sportscode for hassle-free, two-way sharing of video and graphics packages, enabling quick adjustments without having to import, export and realign video multiple times.

“Whether I'm in the office, in the stadium, or at home, I can easily go from using Sportscode straight into the animation tool, which naturally is a nice, easy step,” said Findlay. “But also the presentation tool means that if I am working on two screens while sitting with the coaches, I can edit instances on the spot. Because I have the edit screen of Studio on my laptop, but then on a separate monitor they'd be seeing the output and the presentation, it makes that stage of the workflow quicker as well.

“The quality of the output at the end, when you export or go back into the organizer–the sharpness of it is almost like a presentation or a high quality output itself.” Findlay and his Norway-based team were one of the first to test Studio, so they’re more than qualified to describe and compare the new workflow against their old one. One of the key features that impressed them most was automated tracking, which means there’s no longer any need to manually track players with graphics. Simply highlight the player and computer vision will do the rest.

“Again, the big thing is how time effective it is,” said Findlay. “If you have four or five different animations, you can group them straight away and set a start and end point really easily. It became quite simple to use and actually really effective.”

The ability to add professional, dynamic drawings and sync directly with Wyscout is a further time-saving benefit.

“If you were adding circle drawings around the automated tracking or the manual tracking yourself, the ability to drag and drop the names over is really handy,” said Findlay. “For example, if I had our squad from Wyscout, that would automatically be on a panel on the side and I can drag those names over, straight onto [the video], so that you can see the tracking automated with the player's name and squad number together. That's a time-saver itself because you're not having to type out and manually add text over the top. It’s all automatically linked, and you might think it's 10 or 15 seconds to do it, but if you're doing 20–30 clips and you're adding four or five names per clip, that's actually a lot of time over a week or a month that you save.”