ARMA Analysis Video Player?

[Jonathan Mayshar]

Hi All!

With the proliferation of good WMA video, especially from ARMA, I'm wondering if anyone can recommend a video player that we can use for practice. I've tried over a dozen of the free ones (including all the mainstays) and I can't find one that has good slow-motion and looping. Some other features that would be good for analysis would be saving multiple in/out points and an easy frameshot function.

There are some professional sports analysis programs like this one:
http://www.analysisprogram.com/intro.htm
but I hesitate to spend $89 on a piece of software I've never heard of from a company with a marginally professional website.

Thanks in advance.

Hut!

Jonathan Mayshar

[Lance Chan]

Have you tried Quicktime player? Simply pressing the arrow buttons on the keyboard allow you to do frame by frame playback with the respective directions.

Hi All!

With the proliferation of good WMA video, especially from ARMA, I'm wondering if anyone can recommend a video player that we can use for practice. I've tried over a dozen of the free ones (including all the mainstays) and I can't find one that has good slow-motion and looping. Some other features that would be good for analysis would be saving multiple in/out points and an easy frameshot function.

There are some professional sports analysis programs like this one:
http://www.analysisprogram.com/intro.htm
but I hesitate to spend $89 on a piece of software I've never heard of from a company with a marginally professional website.

Thanks in advance.

Hut!

Jonathan Mayshar

[CalebChow]

Don't know of any particular programs, but for an extremely difficult alternative that I managed to use:

First I used, as Lance suggested, Quicktime player to play the original videos.

Then I used the trial version of FRAPS, a recording software used mainly for gaming that seems to work for Quicktime too. If you have a microphone you can record the sound too, although the speakers will probably have to be blasting pretty loud.

Then, I compile and edit the raw recorded footage (taken using FRAPS) with Windows Movie Maker and slow-motion and/or repeat the videos by editing them that way.

This is probably the most inefficient way of doing this possible, but hey, it worked for me

As for manually looping...well, then just use Quicktime's arrow keys.

Sorry I couldn't be of more help...