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MotionCAD Help
These pages provide help documentation
for the motion analysis tool MotionCAD.
 What is MotionCAD?
MotionCAD is
an application designed to analyze motion is videos. The focus of the
application is the communication and description of motion.
Designed to be simple and
flexible MotionCAD uses a Whiteboard concept. With it you can place
you videos and lines in any combination. Just like a white board
you pickup a drawing tool and then draw with it. The results
are an application that works like Corel draw but video is designed in
at the root of the application.
How can a video in MotionCoach be
quickly launched into MotionCAD?
One simple click of a button. A
button on the gallery is labeled "MotionCAD", see the button above. To view a video
in MotionCAD simply select the video you want in the gallery, and press
the "MotionCAD" button.
MotionCoach will transfer some file information for MotionCAD.
To open the video into an
analysis template click on the little down arrow that is beside to the right
of this button. This will drop down a list of analysis templates that
have been installed with MotionCoach.
Are lines placed in the
video?
In the
picture above lines, appear drawn on in
video. This is not true, it better described that the lines are drawn
on a clear piece of plastic over the video. If you where to open the video
with a standard video player the lines would not be seen.
By doing lines in this manner, an
unlimited number of possible analysis options are opened to analyze
motion.
Can the lines/analysis be saved to
view again?
The MotionCAD
template documents you are working with can be saved exactly the way it is
seen on the screen. This file can be re-opened at
anytime in the future and changed and then re-saved. It is suggested you save them as
another file name so to protect the original information of the Pro provided template.
What objects does
MotionCAD provide?
MotionCAD provides a
powerful serial of objects:
- Line
- Multi-segment line
- Box
- Ellipse
- Curve
- Pictures
- Text
- Frames
- Special OLE objects
- Other videos
Most of these objects above can be
rotated, colors and thickness changed, ... any many more options depending
on the object.
What are "Special OLE
Objects" ?
Special OLE objects are objects
that Microsoft's Object Linking and Embedding subsystems provide. This
option links MotionCAD to all the features that you computer provides.
Commonly, trainer pros use this special object to add voice
lesions to the MotionCAD document. The Pro can say into the computer, "Go
to frame 44, see how your hand position has improved from the last
session", and record that sound for the student to listen to later.
You can get crazy here an even add
WORD documents or WEB pages to the MotionCAD document if you want, this
tool is very flexible.
More than one video in MotionCAD?
Yes, hundreds of
videos can be viewed at the same time in MotionCAD, the only limit is the resources
available on your computer. 5 to 10 videos is the typical limit.
Videos in MotionCAD are simply objects,
and like the other objects in MotionCAD the videos can be moved around and
size changed and the frame color changed, ...
The
window on the right with
all that information, what is that?
That is called the
property sheet. The Property sheet displays the details of the currently selected
object. The default is the background, but if you click on any
object in the MotionCAD document, the property sheet will change to show the
details of that object.
When MotionCAD starts
it, doesn't look the same as the picture above?
The display of
MotionCAD is very configurable, most of the tool bars and property sheets
can be moved around or removed from the screen. The final
arrangement depends on your preference.
To move bars around, just click on the double lines of one edge of
the tool bar and drag the object to a
new location.
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