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ARK VIDEO EDITING SOFTWARE - SOFTBALL

ARK Fastpitch is video analysis and much more, it’s complete game analysis. By combining charts and spray charts with statistical, situational and video analysis ARK Fastpitch is the most complete video coaching system for softball ever! ARK Fastpitch is an “NFCC Educational Partner.” The ARK Fastpitch system let’s you keep an entire season of video on your laptop. Every Pitch, Every Game. Plus you get Pitch Charts, Spray Charts and reports.

“ARK Fastpitch is a valuable tool to catalog every pitch thrown during the season. This system is user friendly, time efficient, and worth every penny. Now, you can replay the entire game in a few moments. Pull up pitches by type and result. You can extract game tendencies and educate your team at the same time. ARK has great customer service and will help you integrate this system into your program. It has been a valuable tool in our back-to-back NCAA National Softball Championship wins."
-Sue Enquist, Head Coach, UCLA Softball
12-Time National Champions

Our Premier Version software provides a full range of features including digital video capture, slow-motion playback, custom edit fields that let you record exactly what you want to see in your own terminology, Store over 60 full games on your laptop, and create highlight films and All-American tapes with animated titles, voice over, music, etc. Below are just a few of the many features of our software products.

Our Softball solution was designed for softball coaches by softball coaches. With the ARK system, you can track pitch location, speed, result, custom notes, hits with or without runners on, ahead or behind in the count and more - plus all the statistics to go with it.

> Store over 60 games on a laptop!
> 30 frames-per-second
> Hi-resolution (720x480)
> Softball specific editing features
> Game and Pitch Statistics
> Filter and Play back video of each swing or pitch by all righties or lefties, hits, strikeouts, hits with runners on, etc.

> Review clips by individual game, conference games, or whole season
> Burn Clips to DVD/VHS
> Instant Analysis lets you review each pitch after it happens.
>Pitch location, speed, and result tied to Video.
>View video clips on an Ipod or PSP

WHY MORE PEOPLE CHOOSE OUR SOFTWARE

“The ARK system is a fantastic way to store every pitch of every game of the season. Rather than boxes of video tapes, I have all this valuable video at my finger tips, tagged and marked. It saves hours and hours.”
-Kirk Walker, Head Softball Coach, Oregon State

There are other editing software products on the market these days, but none of them give the price/performance and softball editing features of our SOFTBALL software. And no other company surpasses our level of customer support. Here's why the best college teams choose our products over the competitors:

Stability - Our software has been around for years. It is time-tested and rock-solid. Whether you buy software for personal use or for your professional, university, or club team, you can't risk buying something that performs poorly or crashes frequently.

Features - Our software has all the features that any coach or instructor will need ranging from amateur sports all the way to professional or Olympic levels. As the saying goes, "if we don't have it, you probably don't need it".

Flexibility - Our software allows you to just record just each pitch or swing and go back to edit it afterwards, or record all the information you need in real time during the game. A parent or student unfamiliar with the game can get you critical information very quickly. Then, you can edit that information to get more detailed as needed. Take games live from your camera, DVD, VHS, or any other digital source.

Ease-of-use - ARK Fastpitch is specifically designed to be easy to learn and use. We build our products for coaches, and athletes - not computer wizards. Most customers find they can begin using our products within the first hour of opening it up.

Service and Support - We provide both on-line AND phone support. Most others only offer email support (or no support at all). This may be the most important aspect of your purchase. After all, what good is the software if the company isn't there to help you after the sale. This is the cornerstone of our company.

Price - When you consider all the points above plus the wide range of features we offer, our products are the best value by far. Look over our features (below) and check out our prices. We think you'll agree.

APPLICATIONS

Our software (and our full hardware/software systems) are used in various college and high school programs from Division I all the way down. Our Softball solution was designed for coaches by coaches. With the ARK Fastpitch, you have immediate access to video of every pitch as well as Pitch Charts, Spray Charts and Reports.

FEATURES AND SCREEN SHOTS (click on pictures below to enlarge, click on the "X" button to close)

Below are actual sample screens taken from live sessions. These sample screens will describe many of our key features as well as illustrate how easy the software is to use.

	Video Capture/Playback: One-click controls permit easy recording and instant replay with audio. Our multi-camera version and our full hardware systems even come with the ability to remotely control video capture from a Palm device.
	Specifically Designed for Softball: Select clips to edit from a specific game and all the info you would need can be changed or added, pitch type, location, speed, runners, hard or soft contact, result, etc. The customized menu allows you to add new coaching points and assign your own terminology and user data fields. You tailor the software to your own terminology.
	Charts tied to Video: Print out pitch charts of each at-bat and each pitch during the game and view the video by player, at-bat, inning, etc. If you see a pitch or hit on the chart, click on it and immediately pull up the video to see the details.
	Create/Save filtered clips: Select the clips you want to see by filtering the categories like player name, at-bat, inning, ect. Then play just those clips on the computer, out to a TV or Projector, or save those clips in a file to be called up at any time. Make as many saved lists as you want and combine multiple clip lists for full season lessons and video review.
	Video clip manager: No more searching for videos on the disk or using unintelligible file names. The videos are organized by each game and include all situational data. An easy to use filtering system allows you to instantly find any pitch or at-bat you are looking for. Quick access to the video, and charts you need.
	Real-time statistics: Stats are tracked and are available for review, export to excel, or printable at any point in the game. These tools make it easy to prepare complete lessons right along with the player's video. PLUS: Click on a stat category in the list and the video immediately pulls up.
	Burn to DVD/Record to Tape: Create team or individual highlights with title slides to show skills, send to recruiters, or emphasize plays.
	Play video out to TV or Projector: Clips can be selected and played out to an external monitor, TV, LCD Projector or printed to Tape or DVD. Single pitches or entire video lessons can be output to DVD for students to take home.

Toll-free (US only): 888-265-6226
International: 001-760-942-0116
Fax: 760-942-6285
email: salesinfo@sports-motion.com
Sales/support hours: 8AM-4PM PST

Sports Motion, Inc.
Offices located in New Jersey and California