Analyze my tennis post-game videos from a Mac
This holiday I got another tech toy – an M1 powered MacBook Pro 13”. One of the reasons to justify my buying decision is I will be able to “produce” more tennis tracking videos using the Mac version of the SwingVision. In this post, I’d like to share my initial review of it, after using it for a couple of sessions.
In a normal situation, I would wait for a few more weeks to get a bit more hands-on experience. Unfortunately, the city I live in imposed a new lock-down measure, essentially blocking any indoor tennis over the winter. The plan is to keep updating this with more information available.
Key takeaways & recommendations
- SwingVision on Mac is a working version that can analyze video captured from any recording device with a minimum of 720p and 30fps.
- The convenience of viewing and editing the video on a bigger screen with a Mac provides a better user experience.
- The post-game editing feature is still limited since SwingVision doesn’t allow for exporting video in the Mac for now. However, it doesn’t limit any video edit by tools like iMovie to pre-process the imported video
- If you are an apple watch user to tag the game with real-time scoring, I don’t suggest you wait a bit. The current combination will result in losing the real-time scoring capabilities since the video and the watch stats isn’t talking to each other.