How To Upload Video (High School, Youth, Pro)

How To Upload Video (High School, Youth, Pro)

If you haven't yet, please run through our upload checklist here. 

Reminder > Please use GOOGLE CHROME as your browser.

On your dashboard, click the 'Upload Video' button:

Select the type of video.  Only 'Home', 'Away', and 'Scout' games can be logged.  'Practice' and 'Default' videos are typically for practice or training videos, and may be assigned tags or edits by you and your team. Select 'Home' or 'Away' if your team played the game,  or 'Scout' if you're uploading a game that was played by 2 other teams


Fill in the Game Info Box and please       make sure it is correct.  You CANNOT change it later.  

Clicking the "Home/Away jersey color" button will open up a window for team jersey colors - by default, "Color text" will be selected, and this allows you to type in your team's/your opponent's jersey color


Unmarking the "Color Text" box will present you with a color picker that you can use to pick a color from the palette or type in the exact color code, if you have it at hand


Next, type in the name of your opponent. If you see the opponent on the list, click the name to assign the team, or if your opponent is not on the list, click the yellow "Add as opponent" button at the bottom of the list


Enter your game date, game time, and select the season you're uploading your game into 


"Add to library" field is essential if you have a full season of team breakdowns package or if you're a part of a league - marking this box will make sure your game is sent to logging in accordance with your breakdowns package. If you leave this box unmarked, your game will still get uploaded, but it won't get logged. If this happens, don't worry- just email us at vidswap-support@pixellot.tv and we'll have the game logged for you


If you're on the credit system, you can decide if you want to use one of your credits to have the game logged as soon as it gets uploaded. Under the "What type of breakdown?", you can select "none" to upload your game without logging, or select a type of credit to have your game automatically logged as soon as it uploads


Lastly, you'll be presented with two options: "Exclude from stats" will ensure your game isn't counted towards your season stats, and "remove" audio, an option marked by default, will permanently remove sound from your game. If you select to remove the sound at this stage, it can not be recovered later


If one is available, please include the online BOX SCORE stats link for your game on the 'Link To Stats' line.  For volleyball, please upload a SHAREABLE link (Google Doc, Google Drive, Dropbox, iCloud, etc.) of your team's scoresheet to assure a breakdown as accurate as possible.

AGAIN, PLEASE MAKE SURE ALL THE INFORMATION IS CORRECT BEFORE CLICKING 'NEXT' AND UPLOADING: YOU CANNOT CHANGE THIS LATER.

 (If you're uploading video for a play-based sport like football or baseball, and need help choosing between the 'Clipped' or 'Continuous' video format, please see this article here.)

'Who Played In The Game?' / Lineup Charts:

For greater tagging accuracy and to include such things as an athlete's game-specific jersey number change (or to narrow down a large roster), please denote the specific athletes playing in this game (leaving it blank will send your 'default' roster to the loggers):

Please see this article for more information on 'who is playing'. 

Advanced Soccer:

In order for us to tag the player touches in an Advanced Soccer breakdown, please add your players and the positions they occupied, substitutions, etc.  Please make sure this list is as complete as possible.

For more information, please see this article.

'Select Video Source'

This option will be available if you use a Pixellot camera system or our VidSwap REPLAY(FIX LINK) service.  You can import your files directly and save yourself some time.

(We'll continue this article assuming you have video footage to upload.) 

If you have a Pixellot camera system you need linked to your account, please let us know at vidswap-support@pixellot.tv

If you need assistance uploading VidSwap REPLAY video, please see this article here. (FIX LINK)

The next step is to Upload Your Files.

Uploading Your Files:

If you have two or more angles to upload for your game (a sideline angle and an endzone angle, for example), please see 'Multiple Angles', below.  

To select your video files, in the 'Upload Video' box, click 'add angle' and select angle to upload into



Navigate to the spot on your computer where your video files are stored, select those files (you can use your 'Shift' or 'Control' keys to select multiple files, if necessary) and press the 'Open' button.  Dragging and dropping the selected files into the upload box will NOT work:

Please do NOT upload different CLIPS as different ANGLES.  The basic rule (barring an odd event like needing to switch cameras halfway through a game because the battery died, etc.) is to load all of one camera's footage as one angle.

The order you set these videos in is the order we will "stitch them together" before logging your match.  PLEASE ARRANGE THESE FILES IN THE ORDER THAT THE GAME PROGRESSES CHRONOLOGICALLY.  If there is an error in the running order of your video, you will have to re-upload the game, and potentially have it re-logged.

Uploading Multiple Angles:

If you need to add a second (or more) angle of footage (such as an endzone video), after putting the first angle footage in the upload box (but BEFORE pressing 'Upload File(s)'), press 'Add Angle' again and select that footage for the 'add 2nd Angle video'.

(Repeat as necessary for 3rd and/or 4th Angle video clips.)


AVCHD Files:

If you're on an AVCHD camera in MP4 mode, the files are usually located in a DCIM folder, then labeled as .MP4. 

If you're uploading from an AVCHD camera in AVCHD mode, the files will be located in the PRIVATE > AVCHD > BDMV > STREAM folder.  You will want the .MTS files. 

If you're on a newer Mac, the AVCHD folders will be packaged in a Quicktime file and you'll need to copy the video files onto your desktop so they can be grabbed for uploading. Simply right click (or 'Ctrl' + mouse click) and 'Show Package Contents' for AVCHD and BDMV until you reach the STREAM folder.  Again, you'll want to move those .MTS files to your desktop before uploading them:




IF YOU'RE UPLOADING FROM A DVD, select the VOB files directly from the DVD starting with the number 1…
VTS_01_1.VOB
VTS_01_2.VOB
etc…
Please do NOT upload the VIDEO_TS.VOB file that is around 60 KB.  That is an index file, not video, and will crash your upload.

Once added, click 'Upload Files'.

Note: you can drag and drop the files to reorder, if needed.

This is a very important step in making sure your game is tagged as accurately as possible. If you're a college or pro team, your stats are usually available online, right after the game.  Please paste the link to your Box Score page on the 'Link To Stats' line in your Game Info box at the beginning of the upload process:

High schools and club teams may not always have those, and that's okay, but if you do have them, please add them.

Interrupted Upload:

If you've already uploaded but the upload was interrupted (leading to only part of the game being online), you can continue the upload.

For play-based sports like football, baseball, or softball, if you were uploading a 'Clipped' match you can continue the upload from where it left off; you don't need to re-upload the whole thing.  If you were uploading a 'Continuous' video, you must re-upload all files.

For flow-based sports like soccer, hockey, basketball, or volleyball, you'll need to select all of the files and angles for the game and re-upload.

Select the playlist you're looking to re-upload, and choose the "upload" box to the right of the playlist title.

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