Free video analysis: what TactiCam offers your team

If you are looking for free software to install on a computer, our article on free video analysis software reviews what exists. Here, we talk about what TactiCam gives a team for free, and how to make the most of it.

The Player account, free for life

Every player invited to the team has a free account, with no time limit. With this account, they:

• see their clips in real time, on their phone;
• read their coaches' annotations and comments;
• reply under each clip, even in full screen;
• join video review sessions online;
• check the calendar and confirm their attendance.

Players install nothing: TactiCam opens in the browser of their phone, iPhone or Android. In a team of twenty players, none of the twenty accounts is paid. The team or the club subscribes, for the coach.

The coach trial: 14 full days, no credit card

The trial starts by itself when you create your team. No payment method is asked for, and nothing is charged automatically at the end. For 14 days, you have access to what a subscribed coach gets:

• Film the match or the training session with a phone on a tripod, with no break, up to 4K, and flag the moments to review with the Marker button.
• Control the camera from a second phone, at the side of the pitch.
• Import videos from your phone or another camera (mp4, mov and common formats).
• Annotate: slow motion down to a quarter of the speed, frame by frame, zoom, pen, arrows, circles, zones, bubbles and timestamped comments.
• Sort clips in the Video Room: by session, with action tags, a status (Good example, To fix, To show), Team and Personal folders, favourites and search by player.
• Share each clip with the player concerned or the whole team, by secure link or by notification, and see in “Viewed by” who has watched it.
• Organise the team: calendar of matches and training sessions, attendance, match sheet, stats.
• Film from several angles with Multicam, or keep the seconds before a tap with Recall Mode.

After the 14 days

If you carry on, you choose the Team plan or the Club plan, monthly or yearly. Prices are on the pricing page.

If you do not carry on, nothing is charged. The team switches to read-only and all clips stay viewable, by you and by the players. Filming, annotating and importing start again as soon as the team subscribes.

Referrals: up to a year free

Every club or team you invite that takes the yearly subscription gives you one month of your own yearly subscription. The invited club also gets one month free on its first year. Twelve teams invited over twelve months, and your whole year is paid.

Making the most of the trial: a two-week plan

1. Day 1. Create your account, then your team, and invite the players. The trial starts when the team is created.
2. First training session. Put the phone on a tripod, up high, and film one exercise. Watch it back in slow motion the same evening. The right height and angle are in where to put the camera.
3. First match. Film the whole match and tap Marker at every move you want to review, from the bench, using your own phone as a remote. The method is in filming a match on your own.
4. The next day. Pick three or four clips, draw an arrow or a zone, add a sentence, and send each clip to the players concerned.
5. Before the next training session. Check in “Viewed by” who opened their clip, and read the replies under the clips. For Tuesday's session, see a video session players listen to.
6. Second week. Repeat the loop on the next match. By the end of the trial, you have two matches and about ten commented clips to decide with.

For every sport in the team

TactiCam works for any sport filmed from the side of the pitch: football, basketball, handball, volleyball, rugby, ice hockey and field hockey, unihockey, tennis, padel, badminton, water polo, American football and more. With a youth team, the parents' written consent comes before the first match is filmed: see filming young players.

Where the videos go

Videos are hosted in Switzerland, on Infomaniak servers in Geneva, and protected under Swiss data protection law. They are never public: only team members have access, and a share link can be revoked.

To start, create your account, then your team. The 14 days begin right away, with no credit card.