We’ve been highlighting games for a long time. Here are some of my best tips for highlighting a live game. Remember, first you’re there to enjoy the game. So don’t stress out about getting the moment exactly where it happens. You can always go back and adjust it later.
So the game’s running, you see someone running down the sideline, someone’s running through the middle, and someone’s making a great cross toward the goal. That midfielder puts it out wide, and then you see the cross coming. You see that person running into goal, and you just know something exciting is about to happen. You want to look down and get ready to capture the exact moment. Don’t worry about it. You don’t have to do that. Just watch the play and let it finish.
By default, the app will back up 20 seconds from when you hit the button. So the play is happening, the cross is in, the goal is scored, and everybody’s screaming. You look at this; you look at your phone to capture that moment. In the craziness, just hit the highlight button and be done. You can come back later and change it to a goal, a cross, or whatever the case may be. Whatever that moment is you’re looking for, just hit the highlight button. It’s the easy one. It’ll grab the timestamp and mark it as a highlight so you know that you need to come back and review it.
Other than that, let’s say you forgot to start the time at the beginning and something just happened. Still, it’s fine. Hit the start button just to make sure you got it going now and then hit whatever it was. The timing might be off, but when we get it all synced up at the end, when you get the video in, someone else on the team might have got the start time. Even if they didn’t and we did not get the start time at all, we know what time the game was scheduled for. There’s AI built in, so we can run AI through the entire game and find that moment you highlighted in the list of AI highlights. We can back it out and determine the start time of the game from that and then sync up all the minutes.
Best tips are:
- If you forget to start the game, just hit start whenever you notice it and start logging your moments as normal. Try to end the first half on time. From that, we’ll know if your games are 40 minutes or 45 minutes, and we can estimate the start time.
- Watch the play. Let it finish and then go and log the moment. By default, it’s going to back it up 20 seconds.
- If you can’t figure out the moment or you’re just looking at the screen, don’t worry. That’s why the highlight button is there. Just quickly hit it and keep watching the game.