Manual en Soccer PDF
Manual en Soccer PDF
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Renewal ....................................................................................................................................... 46
TacticalPad - Chalkboard
Creating, Opening and Saving Projects
At any time, just press to save the current project. If it is a new project, the save as dialog
will appear, select the folder and the filename and press the Save button.
To make a copy of the current project click the Save As button , which will show a dialog
to select the folder and the filename to create an identical copy of the project.
Creating Tactical Formations
Adding Players:
To add a player to the current formation just click over its name in the players' list, located in
the left or right side of the window, and drag it to the formation board.
To move a player that is in the formation board, just click over it and drag it to the desired
position.
Removing Players:
To remove a player from the formation board, drag it outside bounds of the field.
Fast mode:
To quickly create a tactical formation in TacticalPad, click at the badge of one of the teams or
at the button to activate/deactivate 'Fast Mode'. After that, just click at the field and the
next available player of the selected team will be added to the formation.
To add a training item or ball to the formation board, open the item’s menu by clicking
and then drag and drop the desired item into the field.
Inking:
To freely draw over the field, press the pen button located at bottom left. After activating
it, just click with the mouse, pen (if Tablet PC) or touch (if touch screen) and draw over the
field.
Drawing arrows and lines:
Besides free drawing, TacticalPad offers tools for drawing lines and arrows. To start drawing
them, press or , click with the mouse, pen (if Tablet PC) or touch in the desired
initial position and then drag the cursor over to the final position, releasing the button (or
lifting the pen/finger) to draw the line or arrow.
Erasing strokes:
To erase a stroke, arrow or line, activate the eraser by clicking . Then just click on the
desired stroke, arrow or line to delete it.
Erase all:
To remove all strokes from the formation board, arrows and lines, press .
To change pen's stroke thickness, select one of the options in . To change color,
To customize then, click on one of the colors and hold it until a color select dialog opens.
Tactical Formations List
- Delete it by clicking ;
- Change subtitle: The text box below the thumbnail is a text input field, so edit it at your will;
- Move: to change the position of a formation item in the list, just click in the thumbnail and
drag it to the desired position;
- Copy home team formation to current board: the button will apply the home team
formation to the current formation board;
- Copy away team formation to current board: the button will apply the away team
formation to the current formation board;
- Copy ink: the button will copy all the drawings on the field: free drawing, arrows and
lines;
Creating Animated Plays
Defining frames:
An animated play consists of a sequence of
state frames that are interpolated, resulting
in a video. To create a new animation, open
the animated play list and click on the
first item (subtitled 'New Animation'). The
newly created animation has an initial and
empty state (frame). Similarly to the creation
of a tactical formation, add players and items
to the field. To create the next state (frame),
press the button . This new frame has
exactly the same content as the previous one.
Move the players and items and the software
will show the path just created to move the
movable items/players from state 1 to state
2. Repeat these steps and the animation will
be created automatically.
Playback:
To play the animation press in the bar located in the top of the window. During the
playback, it is possible to pause , to do free drawing by clicking in the field, to navigate
through animation frames and to stop the animation. To configure
animation playback speed, select it in .
Deleting a frame:
To delete a frame in the animation, press . The previous and next frames will be
automatically recalculated.
- Delete it by clicking ;
- Change subtitle: the text below the thumbnail is a text input, so edit it at your will;
- Move: to change the position of an item in the list, just click in the thumbnail and drag it to
the desired position.
Creating an animated play from a tactical formation
First create a new animation as described in the Creating Animated Plays, open the formation
list, and then click the button and to copy the desired formation to the current
animation. With the first state (frame) defined follow the steps presented in the previous
section to create the rest of the animation.
3D Visualization
Launching:
To access the 3D visualization mode, open
- Pre-defined cameras: there are 9 pre-defined cameras. Just click on the control shown
below. If the user changes camera position and wants to restore it, just click in the camera
button twice;
- Directional Navigation: press the navigation arrows to navigate in the X, Y and Z axis;
- Free directional navigation: press the button shown below and move the mouse, pen (if
Tablet PC with Pen) or finger (if Touch);
- Free camera rotation: press the button show below and move the mouse, pen or finger;
Settings:
- Hide/Show team players: to hide all players from home or away team, press the following
button ;
- Player orientation: to change home team or away team players' orientation, press the
arrows as shown above ;
Animation Boards:
The 3D Visualization does not play the animation, only the formation of the states (frames).
During playback, it is not possible to open 3D and vice-versa.
Presentation:
If the TacticalPad special feature 'Presentation Mode' is activated, the 3D visualization is
shown only in the projected window and in the first(default) monitor a remote control opens
allowing user to control the functions described above.
Performance Settings:
As described in the next section, in the settings menu user can balance the relation
Performance/Quality for the 3D visualization.
Exporting to Image:
To export the current shown 3D content, press , select folder and filename.
Overview:
The settings menu allows the user to:
- Change appearance preferences;
- Define teams’ name, badge, appearance and
roster;
The settings window (below) has four tabs: Visual, Teams, Home Team and Away Team
Visual:
This tab has the following options:
- Show name of home team players: alternates between showing or not the name of the
player in its representation as shown below;
- Show ball path during animation: show/hide the path of the ball during an animation
playback;
- Always ask before deleting animation frames: activate/deactivate the confirmation dialog
presented when user press the delete button to remove one animation frame;
- Split Lineup/Bench: changes the way the team players list is shown, splitting or not Starting
Lineup and Bench lists, as shown below;
- -Window Resolution: Allows the user to select the TacticalPad's window resolution. The
available options depend on the computer resolution. If only 'Full Screen' option is listed
then the computer resolution doesn’t support any windowed mode.
- Language: allows the user to select among the software available languages;
- 3D Settings: this item is responsible for the 3D Visualization feature balance between
quality and performance;
- Restore Pen Colors: this button will restore the default four original pen colors.
Teams:
This tab allows the user to change Teams appearance, badge and name.
- Team name: change the team’s name in the text input field (home or away);
- Team colors: the three colors presented below the team name define the team
appearance, including the representation of the player in the 2D and jersey in the 3D
visualization;
- Stripes: select between a plain, vertically, diagonally or horizontally striped jersey. The
preview is shown next to this option;
- Manage Teams: the 'Save/Load' Button allows the user to save current teams’ appearance,
badge and roster or to load them into the current team.
Teams' Rosters:
The next two tabs have the name of the two teams. Their contents are the respective rosters.
The following actions might be done:
- Change player name and number: change the content in the corresponding text input
fields;
- Add Player: click the '+' button in the end of the list. A new player will be added to the list.
- Substitution: to substitute a player by another, select their substitution check box and
confirm the intention in the dialog shown. It is possible to do the substitution in the current
selected board or apply to every other. This option is shown in the Yes/No dialog.
Managing Teams / Setting Default Team
To store a team:
- Define team’s name, roster, badge and colors
- In the following window (below) press 'Save Team', type a reference name (default is the
team name) and then press Ok. The team will be added to the teams list.
To load a team:
- Press 'Save/Load Team' button
- In the following window, select the desired team then press Load. Press Yes in the next
dialog. As result, name, badge and roster will be applied in the Home or Away team of the
project.
You may also set the default team, so every new project will have it as the home team. To do it
press 'Save Load/Team' then check the star presented in the list item.
Board's Notes
Every board, either formation or animation, has an associated notepad. In it, the user may add
notes and comments. To do it:
- Press
- The presented notepad is split in two parts: in the left you can write typing the keyboard. In
the right side, you may draw with mouse, touch (if touch device) or write using pen (if a
Tablet PC with pen).
Importing Projects
To import formations and/or animations from a TacticalPad project, follow the steps:
- In the following dialog, select the project file, its extension shall be:
- .pej (Soccer)
- .peb(Basketball)
- .peh (Handball)
- .pef (Indoor Soccer or Futsal)
- The next window has two tabs. The first one has the project's tactical formations,
represented by a thumbnail and a checkbox with its name. The other tab contains the same
for animations. Select the desired formations and animations, then press 'Import'. Wait a
moment and they are added to the current project.
Exporting Projects
- For images and videos, a dialog is shown to select file folder and name.
- The exported video will show the same content as the animation playback, with players and
ball path displayed as configured by the user.
Presentation Mode
1. Comparison
As described above, the two modes have similar content but with a important difference:
clone will show all the screen content, with menus, lists, bars and most-important, the player
field. Extended mode will project only the player field, removing undesired content, making
better usage of the projected area, as shown in the image below;
Windows XP:
- Close TacticalPad
- Plug in the projector or second monitor cable
- Turn it on
- Open Windows Start -> Control Panel -> Display
- Go to Settings tab
- In this tab, there will be represented both the first and second monitor (projector). Press
the second one, then check the 'Extend my Windows desktop on this monitor' item.
- To finish, select the screen resolution in the slider presented.
- In the window there will be represented both the first and second monitor (or projector).
Press the second one, then check the 'Extend my Windows desktop on this monitor' item.
Windows 7:
- Close TacticalPad
- Plug in the projector or second monitor cable
- Turn it on
- Open Windows Start -> Control Panel -> Appearance and Personalization -> Display / Adjust
Screen Resolution
- In the window there will be represented both the first and second monitor (projector). Click
on the second one.
followed by .
Image: The Video Library
It is possible to add different video file formats to TacticalPad's video library. These files can be
added from video files stored in the computer, pen drive or DVDs. Follow the instructions in
the sections below to add videos to the library:
To add a video from a file, access Launching the Video Analysis Tool
In the file dialog, select the video file to be imported and press ok.
After this step, select the video quality for the conversion
Wait few moments for it to finish (this may take a while, depending on the video size).
The movie will be added to the library, represented by a thumbnail.
You can automatically add imported videos to the current project by checking the “After
import, add to current project” checkbox, in the Video Library window. Otherwise, you have to
do it manually.
To import a DVD video to the TacticalPad, access Launching the Video Analysis Tool
After this step, select the video quality for the conversion
You can automatically add imported videos to the current project by checking the “After
import, add to current project” checkbox, in the Video Library window. Otherwise, you have to
do it manually.
Removing videos from the library
To delete videos from the video library and from the computer disk, access Launching the
Video Analysis Tool
The Video Library window, select the video item by clicking (pressing) its thumbnail and press
the link “Delete selected video(s)” (image below) and confirm it in the next dialog.
Projects that reference to the deleted video will keep the reference and bookmarks created.
When opening a project that has a reference to a deleted video the user will be alerted that
the video file no longer exists and will be inquired to replace it, keeping its bookmarks, or
remove the reference to the deleted video.
Video Storage
The video files or DVDs added to video library will be converted and stored in the folder:
“Documents\ClanSoft\TacticalPad(+sport name)\Data\Videos”.
The videos are managed by the Video Library, both for adding and deleting.
The conversion creates two files: one with '.mp3' and another with '.avi' extensions. There will
be also a file called 'videos.xml' that must not be modified manually by the user.
To add a video from the video library to the current project, access the video library window,
select the desired video(s) and then press the button
To remove a video from the current project, open the video list by pressing . Then press
the button presented in the video thumbnail and confirm the deletion.
Image: Project video list
The video is removed from the project only, still available in the video library.
Video playback
To play a project's video, access the project video list and select it by clicking on its thumbnail.
The playback controls are located in the bottom of the screen, with the following functions:
- Play/Pause ;
- Volume control ;
In TacticalPad’s Video Analysis tool, the user can add bookmarks defined by start and end
points. The bookmarks controls are located in the bottom left of the window:
- Add bookmark : creates a new cue point with the start point located in the current
playback time and with a default end point;
- Set end point : this button sets the current bookmark end point to the current playback
time;
- Next bookmark : sets movie playback time to the next bookmark's start point;
- Previous bookmark : sets movie playback time to the previous bookmark's start point;
- Add comments : opens an input panel for the user to add a comment to the current
bookmark;
The video seek bar is collapsed under the video area. To expand it, just click or put the mouse
over it. The bookmarks are listed in the bar, represented by flags with the following colors:
*It is also possible to redefine start and end points by pressing and dragging the flags.
Adding comments to a bookmark
Each bookmark/cue point has associated comments. These comments might be displayed
during playback depending on settings (as shown below).
With a bookmark selected, press the button , located in the bookmarks bar
or press the hotkey 'C' to enter a comment to the current
bookmark. In the displayed panel, type the comments and they are automatically saved.
- Using buttons ;
The bookmarks are numbered sequentially. In the bookmark bar the current bookmark’s
number and the bookmarks count are shown.
The playlist feature allows user to select bookmarks or videos to play in order. The bookmarks
might be in different videos. For example, it allows setting up a playlist consisting of moments
from different team matches.
To manage the playlist, open the playlist windows pressing or keyboard 'L'.
The playlist shall be empty and to edit press on the bottom left of this windows. A panel
will open in the left showing the list of videos (in white) and its bookmarks (in yellow) followed
by its number and comments.
Press the items to select followed by , adding the bookmarks and videos to the playlist. To
start playing the playlist press . To begin from a specific item, select it and then the play
button.
Managing the playlist
After adding bookmarks and videos to the playlist, the user may change its order by selecting
During video playback, the user can draw over the video. Check that the pen button is enabled
and then draw with the pen (if Tablet PC with pen), touch or press the mouse over the
video area. To change stroke thickness select one of the options in . To draw
lines or arrows activate or . To change color press the color button .
To erase a stroke, press and then click or press over strokes to erase them.
If the video is playing, the strokes drawn on the video automatically fade out. The fade out
time can be configured in the settings menu.
Settings
The settings menu is accessed by pressing (located in the main Video Analysis tool
window) and allows user to change pen and bookmarks settings.
- “Always pause at red flags”: enable/disable playback pause at the end of a bookmark
*The settings are applied both for playback and playlist export.
Pen settings
- “Laser stroke lifetime”: the interval, after stroke completion, before it starts to fade out;
- “Laser stroke fade out time”: the fade out interval.
Exporting the playlist
After creating a playlist, the user may export it as a video file. To do it, open the export
window by pressing .
Choose “Produce a new video” and then select the aspect ratio (16:9 is the most common wide
ratio) and the video resolution. After pressing 'Export', select the file path and the file name
and wait for the process to finish.
During playback, it is possible to export the current frame of the video, with or without ink
Choose 'Save as Image' with or without ink annotations, press export, select the file path and
the file name.
After the confirmation, the next window will appear. It is mandatory to start the application as
an administrator user. Otherwise, the software will show an error message.
To authenticate the TacticalPad copy, fulfill the email and password input fields. After pressing
the Activate button, wait few seconds until the server validates the submission. If successful,
the next windows will be exhibited:
Otherwise, an error message will appear. For further details, contact us at:
support@tacticalpad.com
* Important Notice: A bought license of TacticalPad can be activated only in one machine
Renewal
After the confirmation, the next window will appear. It is mandatory to start the application as
an administrator user. Otherwise, the software will show an error message.
To authenticate the copy of TacticalPad, fulfill the email and password input fields. After
pressing the Renew button, wait few seconds until the server validates the submission. If
successful, the next windows will be exhibited:
Otherwise, an error message will appear. For further details, contact us at:
support@tacticalpad.com