Make any necessary calibrations in Kinovea.You only need to measure something once (but you can measure multiple things if you want to and it makes sense to do so). Kinovea has tools for measuring each of these. You may choose between measuring time, an distance, or an angle. Choose something that the coach and/or athlete might find useful to know. Next, you will measure something in your video.Make sure to do this for both of the body parts you have chosen to analyze.If the body part has more than 1 movement in the action phase, just select one of them for your analysis.Note that you will do this twice, once for each body part you have chosen to analyze.You may choose to list just one agonist, but if it seems appropriate you can list more than one (just don't get carried away and list a dozen.).You are expected to use correct biomechanical terminology when naming the movement.Also, you should specify right or left (if appropriate). Note that you need to estimate the degrees of movement of the body part.This shows about xx degrees of "movement name" of the "body part" at the "joint" caused by a "name the muscle action" action of the "name the agonist".The sentences should be modeled after this:.The biomechanical analysis will consist of 2 sentences, each describing and analyzing the movement of one of the 2 body parts in the action phase.They should be body parts that are very important in the action phase (and we must be able to how they move in the video). They should be major body parts and should not be a muscle or joint.Identify 2 body parts you will be analyzing.Step 6: Identify the start and finish of the "action phase".Step 5: Set a working zone if there is a lot of extra footage in your video.Adjust the size of the video window for the best view of the subject.Step 4: Prepare and adjust the video as needed for the biomechanical analysis following the steps below as needed:.Therefore you should get into the habit of always opening Kinovea first and then opening the video file from Kinovea. If you double-click your video files to open them, you will probably open them in a different video player. Be aware that usually you have to open your video file from the Kinovea app.Step 3: Open Kinovea and then open your video in Kinovea.If you still need help setting up Skylab you can call our IT Helpdesk and they will assist you.There are instructions for accessing skylab at this link:
If you don't have a Windows PC, you can run Kinovea from Skylab (as ESU service available to all students).
If you have a Windows PC, just go to, download the software, and install it. There are basically 2 ways to do this.Record your video and transfer it to a computer or cloud storage device like OneDrive, Google Drive, or Dropbox.For that reason you probably should shoot it in both landscape orientations (rotating your camera 180 degrees between recordings).
Be aware that high speed videos can create very large files, and this may cause technical difficulties, particularly when transferring the file from your phone to a PC with Kinovea.
Virtually all smart phones have this capability.
I have recorded and narrated these videos to explain and show you how to do each step. There are instructional videos mixed in with the text instructions below. You will do this by using a motion analysis product called Kinovea to do some basic biomechanical analysis of a performance recorded to video. The main purpose of this project is to show what you have learned in this course.