1 Topic by edwinwalker

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Anyone have the settings they use for the kinovea software to capture golf swing? I have tried a billion different combinations and can not get any that dont either have serious swing blur, or are so grainy and unfocused, i cant tell whats happening.


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2 Reply by joan

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Assuming you have reduced exposure duration to remove the motion blur and then increased gain to try to compensate the darkness of the image, and that caused a lot of noise/grain. There is no easy solution you must add external lights if you are indoor in a low light room. Then you can use a lower gain and not have so much noise.

3 Reply by NeilHa

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I use Kinovea successfully to capture a golf swing face on, down the line and also from above. I find 60fps webcams are sufficient for body motion, it does need good lighting (led strip lights etc) however clubhead and ball motion is blurred. For the overhead camera I use a 90fps global shutter ELP webcam with two high wattage halogen outdoor flood lights. This works OK, but I would describe it as the minimal requirement to record clubhead and ball paths with no blur. Note that LED lights cause strobing and other video artifacts because they flicker, the halogen flood lights will also have a tendancy to flicker but its way less noticable. The global shutter camera and flood lights are both key to make this work.