Digital video is helping coaches, players and scouts take their game to a new level. This article had my attention in the first paragraph:What was once a 40-hour process now takes Bari Vitolo all of about 30 seconds. Just flip on the computer, type in the jersey number of the player he wants to make a highlight film for, and instantly the clips are organized and ready to be mailed to college coaches.
Wow, I figured somebody did a ton of editing to be able to search clips that fast by a players jersey number. But a couple paragraphs down reference was made to the Landro, so I checked it out. You can read all the specs on the website, but it's pretty much a digital video recorder with software that will allow you to catalog all your plays. You can then recall parts of a game by categories, so if you want to see all the 3rd down plays, just choose that category. Pretty slick, Tivo on steroids for sports.
But the software is not magic, you still need to capture and catalog all the video. So there's a lot of work to be done on the front end. And just like everything else, the system will only be as good as the information that is put into it.
