📹 How to Film Your Batting Video
A good video = a better coaching report. Follow these steps to get the most accurate analysis.
1 Camera Position — This is the Most Important Step
Set up your camera on the off-side, level with the batting crease, 3-5 metres away. The camera should be at waist height — not from above or below.
Bowler
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| (ball direction)
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↓
┌──────────────────┐
│ │
│ 🏏 Batter │ ← At crease
│ │
└──────────────────┘
↑
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|←── 3-5m ──→ 📱 Camera
| (waist height)
| (landscape mode)
|
Off Side
💡 Why side-on? Our AI tracks 33 body joints. From the side, we can see your backlift height, front knee angle, head position, weight transfer, and follow-through arc. A front-on or behind view hides most of these.
2 Phone Setup
📱↔️
✅ Landscape (sideways)
Shows full body, more batting action visible
📱↕️
❌ Portrait (upright)
Cuts off arms/bat, wastes frame space on sky/ground
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✅ Lean against stumps/chair/wall
Steady = sharper frames = better keypoint detection
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❌ Handheld from far away
Shaky footage reduces analysis confidence
3 Framing — What Should Be Visible
The batter's entire body must be in frame at all times — from head to feet, including the bat at full backlift extension.
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✅ Full body visible
Head to feet + bat at all times. Player fills >30% of frame height.
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❌ Too far away
Player is tiny in frame — AI can't detect joints accurately
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✅ One player in frame
Film one batter at a time for accurate tracking
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❌ Multiple people
AI may track the wrong person
4 Lighting
✅ Good Lighting
- ☀️ Outdoor daylight (best)
- 💡 Well-lit indoor nets
- 🌤️ Overcast is fine — no shadows
- 📱 Sun behind camera, not behind batter
❌ Bad Lighting
- 🌅 Sun directly behind batter (backlit silhouette)
- 🌑 Very dark indoor without proper lighting
- 🔦 Strong shadows on one side of body
- 🌃 Night with only one floodlight
5 Video Length & Format
| Duration | 3–30 seconds — just the batting action (stance to follow-through) |
| Ideal | 5–15 seconds: one or two shots is enough |
| Format | MP4, MOV, AVI, or WebM |
| Resolution | 720p or higher (most phones do this by default) |
| Frame rate | 30fps or higher (default on most phones) |
| Max file size | 500 MB |
💡 Trim your video. Don't upload 5 minutes of net session. Use your phone's built-in editor to clip just the shot(s) you want analysed. Shorter video = faster analysis = better results.
6 Common Mistakes That Reduce Report Quality
❌ Avoid These
- 🥅 Filming through a net — obscures joints
- 📸 Front-on camera — hides backlift and weight transfer
- 🏃 Camera panning/following the batter — keep it still
- 📏 Camera too high (from balcony) — distorts proportions
- ⏱️ Very long videos — 2+ minutes slow down processing
- 🎬 Slow-motion mode — use normal speed (AI needs real timing)
✅ Quick Checklist Before Recording
- ☑️ Phone in landscape mode?
- ☑️ Camera at waist height, side-on?
- ☑️ 3–5 metres from batter?
- ☑️ Full body visible including bat?
- ☑️ Good lighting, sun not behind batter?
- ☑️ Phone leaning/propped (not handheld)?
- ☑️ Only one player in frame?