What's up guys welcome back to golf simulator
videos we're back today with an excellent video for so many gsv subscribers because it's a
question that i get all of the time what is the best golf swing analyzer system but for home
use i have so many people that have home golf simulators and you know they're trying to stay
within a budget and a lot of the professional software and hardware can get very expensive well
swing catalyst now has the swing catalyst home edition i've shown the pro software connected to
my gc quad which gives amazing advanced features especially for coaches and instructing but if
you're just doing home use you're looking for more of a budget friendly setup and that's what they've
done and that's what we're here to demonstrate for you today but we're also going to show you a
new product swing catalyst now has their own private label camera which i have here today
called the fox now it's a usb 3.0 camera they do have a network based version as well if your
system you know can use that that's excellent but these are the usb 3.0 cameras let me go ahead and
just throw them up in the screen now i'll show you those cameras right now because you know they're
a great small form factor high quality you're going to see that the specs on them are everything
that you need so it's a 1440 by 1080p resolution you know it's global shutter and it's also going
to have up to 249 frames per second all right so good look at those cameras it's also going to come
with varial focal lenses which makes it you know very easy to set up in different environments such
as mine i mean i have these cameras mounted just seven feet behind the ball and then i'm probably
about five to six feet off of the ball here i do have a 15 foot wide room if i wanted to move
that you know you know closer or further away i could but just to kind of give you an idea but
i have some really cool tips for you guys that i'm going to show you as we move on in the video
so make sure you stay tuned because i know a lot of people are getting into the higher end 4k dlp
projectors and the difference between dlp and 3lcd is that when you use these higher frame rate
cameras and you get out of sync from the frames per second you can get flickering all right a
lot of you might have seen that i'm going to show you how this software has the capabilities of
adjusting the settings to eliminate screen flicker on dlp projectors so i'll show you how easy
that is to do and i'm going to show you how much quality you still get doing that as well so before
i move on make sure you subscribe if you haven't yet guys i appreciate it like the video comment
below any questions you have and most importantly if you're looking to purchase the swing catalyst
home edition software or these new cameras these fox cameras make sure you shoot me an email pin
it to the top of the comments and put it in the description these guys takes excellent care of my
viewers so you'll see this this room is really lit up right now well you know i have to have a lot
of light even though i'm just using two lights i don't have anything crazy going on my room is
very very dark depending on how much ambient light and everything you have you'll have to adjust
your lighting accordingly so i have pretty good results i'm very happy with these results on what
i have if you wanted to increase quality you know you probably want to go with a brighter situation
inside of your room i have like an led panel that faces on and then just an led panel in the back
and i can give you guys these details or put them in the description so you know what i'm using here
but let's just go ahead and we'll take a swing all right i have this set up today on purpose
just to kind of show you guys why this home uh software is so awesome because you don't
you don't need a specific launch monitor okay so you could be using garmin r10 you could
be using flight scope or skytrak or not even a launch monitor for that matter because they're
actually using microphone activation so i have a microphone set up it will only activate from a
crack of a ball and they can actually uh you know adjust the sensitivity inside of the software
they have that adjustment available which is fantastic so it doesn't matter what launch
monitor you have you can just use microphone activation that's very important to point out so
i'm using a flightscope mevo plus i just have an ipad hooked up just to take a demo shot really
quick and then we're going to look at the swing and talk about settings and all the features
so let's just go ahead and take a quick shot all right pretty decent shot down there and now
we'll go over and we'll do an analysis of that swing you can see it buffering on screen already
so first thing first let's just go ahead and take down that camera because we don't want to
be blocking anything all right and then you'll see this recording is already buffered and it's
already going to show me a preview of the slow motion i'm going to hit open recording and so now
i'm actually inside of that recording and it looks like my layout let's make sure we have two cameras
selected single recording there we go perfect that way you can see there's all kinds of
different layouts available and i'm going to show you a demonstration of how to use that in just a
second so stay tuned for that but you can see here i'm actually talking right in the beginning there
of the buffer which i love the buffer because it gives you enough time to kind of get set up uh
you know before and after so it's going to get activated by the microphone just like i said so
first thing i like to do is i like to go right to the takeaway see how the club just starts moving
and i'm going to hit control 1 and you'll see that turns orange and that identifies the take away now
and then i go to the top of the swing there's the top of my swing right there and i hit control
2 and then i go down to the impact of the ball which is right here and i'm going to hit control
three so all those are identified excuse me i can actually hit one two three and then now
it's as easy as that to go to each position now i want to talk about my settings in my camera
and what you might see different from the left and the right so the left is that down the line camera
where you can see flickering okay well i actually have it set right now to 120 frames per second
versus on the right is 249 frames per second now to the normal eye when you look at it you really
don't know much of a difference once you get down to maybe like impact you'll see that i'm getting
to almost twice the movement from the right camera as the left but if you're trying to eliminate
screen flickering the key is is that you need to get it to that interval so it's a 60 here refresh
rate on a dlp i'm going 120 frames per second and it's going to eliminate that flickering and
it still gives me look there's the club right at impact and i want to point out how clear the club
head is in both of these cameras now if i were to lower the shutter speed on that face on camera i
can probably get that even more frozen than it is but as you can see i can clearly see where the
club face is i can see where the ball is hitting you know on the club i mean this is really really
good results overall plenty plenty good for me and if i wanted to i could add some overhead
lights shining down on the subject in the club lowering the exposure brightening the
subject and like i said when you have an environment like mine that's very very dark
everything is black and then even i'm wearing black or dark clothes it's going
to make it a little more difficult to brighten that up so just know that you
could have much easier results than i have depending on your environment and then also
depending on your lighting but there are drawing tools that are included in the home version i
think it's great you could be drawing lines very easily on your subject depending on what you're
working on i can do some various lines like this they even have things like the body you know
kind of outline tool that they have so if i just hit the number one and go to my setup or address i
can actually adjust this right over top of my head and i can actually scale it down kind of to the
width of my shoulders is what i usually try to do and then bring this right over the golfer's
head move that just a little bit to the right just like that and now if i wanted to
just click and scrub through the video i could see any head movement shoulder or sway
movement outside of the box what i've been working on is i've been trying to get my hips to turn
more before impact and pivot off of my left leg and i can see in this video i need
to work a little bit harder at that and that's why i just love being able to work with
a coach come home and then i could even you know work on something that he just showed me
and then review it with him later as well i mean there's just a lot of different things
that you could do in this home software makes it plenty powerful enough to do that but they
even have advanced tools if i just clear this out i'm just going to go ahead and clear all of my
images and let's say i wanted to go back kind of let's just go ahead and hit number two
right to the top and let's say i wanted to draw an angle all right from the club down to
my hands and then down to my shoulder it will even calculate an angle for you so if you're
looking for a certain degree you can do that all kinds of different various tools as you can
see you could point to something if you needed to all right they have regular just freehand
drawing circles rectangles all of that's right there and then you can zoom and pan to the
subject and then zoom all the videos to fill the screen as well so you can do different types
of zooming options now one thing that i really wanted to point out to you guys is the layout
so i could go in here and just do a compare and i could do a one camera all right and i can
select which camera i want uh let's go ahead and just select face on and then i can go to my
explorer and i could get a swing that i actually have of Henrik Stenson all right now this is a
driver and i'm hitting an iron but that's okay so let's put this in a and him and b okay and i
do need to change that to face on right okay there we go i just flipped it back on me a little bit
but let's say that we wanted to see where he was at the top of the swing and where i am at the top
of the swing i'm going to unlink these at the top that way i can change my let's go ahead and
just click viewport b unlink it there we go see i'm clicking those up at
top all right now i can actually change his swing separate from mine and i'm going
to look at how he is at the top of his swing versus how i am so i can look at where his
shoulder is where his head is everything and if i was driver versus driver i mean this is incredible
you can sync them up and drag them at the same time if you'd like so you could sync the videos
up and lock them together all of that is available and it's just so easy to do it now at the same
time if you notice up in the upper left here there is tagging available so i could actually
go and select which club i'm hitting all right i could rate this video and then it's going to
be able to store it in my library so i could find it later so i could look for eight iron
swings or i could look for anything else so lots of powerful tools to use all inside of the
swing catalyst home edition when you look at capture options you'll see that i have microphone
selected there are other types of capture options available for different launch monitors so in
choir depending on what you have they do have different things available that can use launch
monitor activation with different home software as well depending on the launch monitor that
you have but like i said i think that one of the most important things to point out for this swing
catalyst home version that they offer is you don't even have to have a launch monitor or you could
have a very basic launch monitor you know that's just measuring club head speed or you know some
basic device that you're using and you could still use microphone activation it could be working on
your swing with full video analysis you know in the comfort of your home garage whatever it may
be so very powerful stuff coming in at a much lower price something that i really wanted to show
right away and like i said these new fox cameras i just really like the quality that i'm getting
out of them and plenty of features for me with the home edition i'd love to know what you guys
think make sure you comment below any questions that you have you know if you're using something
let me know what you're using and how it compares if you have any questions on that whole dlp
settings setup for that adjustment of the frames per second let me know i think that's a huge thing
to point out because it's a question that i get all the time you know why is this flickering and
you know depending on the software that you have it might be locked to where you can adjust that
so it's a benefit that you're going to get if you're using the swing catalyst software that you
can adjust the frames per second down to 120 from whatever capable you know frames per second your
camera might be and eliminate that flickering so i hope you guys enjoyed this first look video at
the swing catalyst home edition with their new fox cameras stay tuned there'll
be a lot more videos coming soon.
