In this article we see an open source software, which works on Windows and Linux, which is really a serious program for all those who love to study the schemes and tactics of football, basketball, rugby and other sports. This is not a game but a tool dedicated to coaches and players who often use videos to analyze certain game phases of the opposing team and their own.
Basically it is a free program that allows you to do at home, on your computer, what sports journalists do on TV when they analyze the patterns, movements and position of the players, reviewing the game actions with slow motion and drawing with a marker on the video, to explain what happened.
It also allows you to mount services at the ninetieth minute, with the summary of the matches, creating the video with only the main actions.
To my knowledge, LongoMatch is the first program that provides a free solution for studying and analyzing sports videos .
LongoMatch is a professional program that can be downloaded and installed for free (the old version from the Softpedia website) and allows you to upload videos, divide the video into different stages, draw on it and review everything even with slow motion effects, more or less slowed down.
The function of LongoMatch is to help coaches study tactics and game patterns in a game, marking and highlighting the most interesting movements.
Obviously this is a program that can be used by anyone with an interest in wanting to review the actions, even of the Serie A matches, creating personalized videos.
With a simple click, a coach is able to view any phase of the game that has been added to the database and it is possible to precisely adjust the start and end of each of them.
Thus, a piece of football, basketball or any other sport can be divided into a summary of main actions.
Through a timeline, the service can be assembled as the professional journalists of Rai Mediaset and Sky do.
You can also create a playlist to review the actions of different games.
To try the program I can advise you to download the video of the goals of a football match and upload it to Longomatch to try the various functions.
The funny part is that you can tag players by giving them a name and creating a precise analysis of a game, specifying which teams they are, the formations and the whole scoreboard of annotations such as, for example, yellow and red cards, kicks corner, punishment and so on.
LongMatch can be used with any sport: football, hockey, baseball, basketball, tennis and so on.
Although focused on sport, LongoMatch can be used for any multimedia activity that requires you to edit different parts of a video file, and can be applied to fields such as cinema, medicine or conferences.
Among the main features there is also the possibility to do a live analysis from the shooting of a DV camcorder connected to the computer.
To start, press on File, "New Project" and then upload a video from your computer.
From the View menu, you can set the "Analyze" mode to edit several pieces of video.
The button with the hand makes a still image and allows you to draw with the marker on that frame of video.
With the vertical bar on the right you can adjust the playback speed and make slow motion.
I still want to clarify that this is not a game therefore, although it is very easy and intuitive, to use this program it takes some patience, especially if you want to do a precise and almost professional job.
To have an easier to use and more enjoyable program, you can use Kinovea which slows down videos also image by image and makes slow motion.
