1 Topic by ckinard96

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I want to start with kudos and a big Thank You - your software is amazing and I have really enjoyed getting to know your intellect from your answers here in this forum. It's really cool that you are so hands on with Kinovea.

I would like the audio trigger to just drop in a 'chapter' marker or something similar. To explain, I would like to manually set the recording window to start recording, then go hit 3 (or more) golf balls with the audio trigger SETTING chapter markers in that 'mini-session' recording for each ball strike. When I have hit whatever number of balls for this 'mini-session', then review the playback and the fast forward/fast reverse button jump to the chapter with each click of FF/FR. Then I would be able to anaylize that swing until satisfied, then quickly jump to the next swing I want to look at closely.

I have been using the recording delay with audio trigger and that works fine but I would rather view my swing stance/setup/other variables in real time without the 2-3 second delay needed to capture the entire swing. from the audio trigger.

Also - would be nice to have an option for a counter for the recordings as opposed to date time, a date + counter would be easier to reference.

Many Thanks and keep up the Great Work!
Cal

2 Reply by joan

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It should be possible to make the audio trigger add a key frame. Then we can jump between key frames using a keyboard shortcut or button. The key frames could be on the ball impact or moved back to the start of the swing based on the delay value. The swings would not be neatly separated into their own "clips" though, so playback would just continue into the next swing. I experimented with a multi clips system at some point but didn't go too far.

I have been using the recording delay with audio trigger and that works fine but I would rather view my swing stance/setup/other variables in real time without the 2-3 second delay needed to capture the entire swing. from the audio trigger.

You can switch between real time and delayed using the third button in the recording toolbar, the blue circle with dots around, next to the "pause" one. It will turn orange when the view is live. This is independent from recording settings, it's just for the preview.

Also - would be nice to have an option for a counter for the recordings as opposed to date time, a date + counter would be easier to reference.

Yes. One difficulty with counters is that if they are global it makes things a bit complicated when using multiple capture screens or instances, and it's hard to know if it should increment after each capture or only after each global trigger, and how to let the user reset it.

You could sort of do it manually right now with a context file with one number per line. You would need to manually click on the next number from the drop down though.