Which Sports Survive a Crop From Widescreen to Portrait
A portrait crop keeps under a third of a widescreen frame. Which sports survive vertical video sports highlights, and where tracking crops fail badly.
Author: Ray Kimball
Ray Kimball writes about how sport reaches a screen: camera placement, replay operation, highlight editing and the way coaches and scouts use film. He is interested in what a frame includes and what it quietly leaves out. He also follows archive preservation and restoration.
Coaches Skip the First Twenty Seconds of Your Recruiting Reel
A build order for a sports recruiting highlight reel: clip length, where a clip starts, spotlighting, raw companion clips and the file name that survives.
Slow Motion Makes Every Contact Look Deliberate
A slow motion replay settles position and misleads on intent. What high frame rates remove, why officials are told to switch speeds, and a viewing checklist.
High Wide, Eighteen-Yard, Reverse: What Each Camera Actually Shows
The standard sports broadcast camera positions and what only each one can show. Why parallax, long lenses and frame rate make replays disagree.
How Editors Finish a Four-Minute Package Before the Final Whistle
How sports highlights are edited while play continues: timecode logging, pre-marked angles, the audio bed and the ninety seconds after the whistle.