How to pull every play by one player out of a game recording
Give Vizard Agent the game footage and the player's number and kit colour. Vizard Agent gets the file however it can, probes it, surveys the whole game into contact sheets, then works through the footage finding the plays that player is in, on both sides of the ball if they play both.
What do you type into Vizard Agent?
Give the identifying details and the play types together. Vizard Agent uses the number and colour to find the player and the position to know where to look, and naming the play types stops a reel that is only the obvious highlights.
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What does Vizard Agent actually do?
A full game is an hour of wide shots in which one player is a small figure among twenty-one others. Much of the first half of the job is simply getting hold of the footage, and a survey of the whole game is what makes the search tractable. In the session behind this article it:
- Tried to download the game footage from the supplied link, checked the options and alternatives when that route failed, and retried with the full link.
- Searched for the video's details and for alternative sources of the same game, then read the download log to find out what had actually gone wrong.
- Switched to the shared-drive copy, verified the file permissions and tested a direct download.
- Downloaded the full game and probed its technical specifications and real duration.
- Extracted survey frames across the entire game and built contact sheets before hunting for anybody, so it knew where the play was before searching for one number.
When does this not work well?
Finding one player in a wide shot depends entirely on being able to read their number, and game footage is very rarely filmed with that in mind. These are the cases where Vizard Agent runs into the recording rather than the request: a distant sideline camera, two teams in blue, or a player at the bottom of a pile-up.
Common questions
What do you need to identify a player? The shirt number and the team's colours. Vizard Agent works from those in the wide shot.
What if the footage will not download? Vizard Agent tries several routes; a shared-drive copy usually works where a stream will not.
What if two teams wear similar colours? That is the hard case here. Vizard Agent reports where it could not tell them apart.