Switching over from Nacsport to Focus

SCENARIO

The following workflow will take you through relevant steps in order to start tagging games and collecting data in any of your pre-match, live or post-match processes. If you are familiar with performing certain tasks in Nacsport this will help you to carry out the same level of functionality within Focus.

The below checklist provides you with our recommended articles to set up and become familiar with the processes in this scenario.

Completing each step in the checklist below will enable you to become familiar with the fundamentals for preparing data collection via the tag template, performing tagging of matches and the subsequent reviewing of tagged matches in Focus.

Please ensure that you have completed the Initial Setup before proceeding.

TERMINOLOGY GUIDE

SETTING UP A TAGGING TEMPLATE (BUTTON TEMPLATE)

Tagging Template Design

1. Navigate to tag template designer in Focus
2. Template Base - Ability to import/export tag templates
3. How to add a new template, clone template and select an old template
4. Different button types explained: Labels, Tags, Images, Text boxes and Outputs
5. Adding pages to the tag template

Tag and Label Properties (Categories and Descriptors)

1. How to add/rename tags
2. Tag properties and behaviours explained
3. How to add labels
4. Labels properties explained
5. How to use Global Labels
6. Customising the tag template with images and text
7. Page switch functionality - using hotkeys
8. Page switch functionality - on activation/deactivation of tags/labels

Link Types

1. Activation links
2. Deactivation links
3. Excluding Buttons - Exclusive links

Dashboards / Output Windows

1. Output buttons
2. Creating calculations - derived metrics
3. Time based outputs
4. How outputs link to instances on timeline(s)

Preparing Video Ingest / Multi-angle Capture

1. Setup specifications
2. How to connect Focus Client to Focus Server
3. How to download Focus Client on an iPad and connect to Focus Server
4. How to add channels in Focus Server
5. How to open the live session on the connected client machine

TAGGING A GAME (REGISTERING)

1. Register From File - How to create an archive session
2. How to start a live session
3. My Analysis - How to open previously created sessions
4. Link Multiple Angles - aligning multiple angles
5. Registering - Tagging an event
6. Working with the timeline and timeline functions
7. Working with multiple sessions
8. How to find and open the Matrix
9. Adding further info to existing data

REVIEWING TAGS (CODE)

1. Organiser - How to add clips to a Presentation
2. Sorter - How to add clips to a Collection
3. Video Outputs - see "How outputs link to instances on timeline(s)" in Scripting / Output Windows
4. How to add clips to a collection
5. KlipDraw / Presentation Annotations
   
6. Exporting / uploading sessions