Kinovea is a free and open source solution for video analysis.

It is mostly used by sports coaches and athletes to explore, study or comment a performance. In addition to this primary focus, Kinovea is also used by animation artists, podiatrists, and ergonomics engineers. (more…)

Vote for your favorite ideas

The suggestion-list has a new home, and you can vote for your favorite ideas !

So head over to the idea backlog and help us prioritize the next features.
You will also be able to suggest new ones and keep track of implementation status.

Kinovea 0.8.15

We are excited to release Kinovea 0.8.15, the new version of your open source video analysis toolkit !

Now in 16 languages, with several new features, usability and functional improvements, as well as bug fixes.


Download Kinovea 0.8.15

New features include:
The Capture screen : directly stream live action from your camcorder into Kinovea; record images and videos; or delay the live stream for self coaching.
Observational references : overlay complex drawings or images as motion guides on top of the video.
Dual Export: save composite output from your comparison analysis.

See also:
- A more complete list of changes (What’s new in Kinovea 0.8.15)
- The Online Manual (Also in Italian, French).
- The Feature list (PDF) (Also in Italian, French).

With the introduction of live capture this version is an important milestone for the project, and another leap forward.
As always, early adopters feedback has been crucial to drive the developement: Thanks !

Feature freeze / Translations

OK, the new features and improvements over 0.8.7 are now pretty stable and mature enough for prime time. The current cycle will be mostly focused on updating translations, user manual and bug fixing.

Translating Kinovea is as simple as downloading a spreadsheet and filling in the gaps. (learn more on this page).
If you start a new language please post in this thread indicating which language you are starting to work on.

- A Polish speaking contributor is needed to update the Polish locale (currently 52% complete).

- The most wanted list :
(Languages not already in Kinovea sorted by number of visitors of on the website (based on country of origin))
1. Japanese
2. Russian
3. Swedish
4. Arabic
5. Korean

Thanks for your help !

Donations

In addition to the many ways to help Kinovea, like community support in the forums, translation or coding, you can now help funding the project by making donations.

These donations will be used for various investments including website hosting, hardware, camera testing and technical books.

To donate, use the button on the right side bar

[Video] - Adjusting times for high-speed

Quick video to show how to fix timing for high-speed footage.
High-speed videos are a great way to better understand a particular motion. You can adjust all timing values in Kinovea by entering the original frame rate of the video in the dedicated dialog.