Help & FAQ
Everything you need to know about using MotionEdge.
Getting Started
Free vs Pro
MotionEdge Pro — What's in the Free Tier and What You Unlock with Pro
Most of MotionEdge is free, including capture, review, drawing tools, all metrics, comparison, and Apple Watch. Six features unlock with MotionEdge Pro: an unlimited swing library, unlimited daily saves, TrackMan integration, Remote Camera, iCloud sync, and the AI Coach.
Practicing Golf as a Family — One MotionEdge Pro Subscription for the Whole Household
One MotionEdge Pro subscription covers up to six people through Apple Family Sharing. The Pro features, the monthly AI Coach credits, and any AI Coach Packs all share across the family. Combined with iCloud session sharing, it's how parents and kids — or spouses, or anyone in the same household — work on the game together.
Apple Watch
Apple Watch Modes
Three Watch modes — Camera Remote (tripod control), Watch Session (swing detection with/without phone), Tempo Training (haptic rhythm, standalone).
Apple Watch Sensitivity — Filtering Out Waggles, Catching Real Swings
What the Apple Watch swing-detection sensitivity setting controls, why it exists, and how to dial it in so practice waggles don't trigger captures but real swings reliably do.
Apple Watch Swing Analysis Overview
What your Apple Watch does in MotionEdge — camera trigger, tempo measurement, and remote camera control. What it measures reliably and what requires video-based analysis.
Peak Hand Speed
How MotionEdge measures hand speed from your Apple Watch, why absolute numbers are approximate, and how swing-to-swing relative comparison is where the metric earns its value.
Per-Swing Environment Data — Altitude, Weather, Conditions
What the Per-Swing Environment tab shows — the elevation, weather, temperature, and conditions captured by your Apple Watch when each swing was recorded, and why this matters for ball flight and shot dispersion.
Analysis & Overlays
Comparing Swings — Reference & Ghost
How to put two swings together in MotionEdge — Reference mode for comparing against another swing (overlay or side-by-side, with synced scrubbing), and Ghost for self-comparison against the same swing.
Document, Comment & Find Your Swings
How to keep a swing meaningful weeks later — name it, set the club, add tags, leave comments (your own notes or a conversation in a shared session), and find it again from your library.
Drawing Tools — Annotate Your Swing
How to draw on a swing in MotionEdge — lines, angles, circles, and freehand marks that stick to the swing and sync to anyone you've shared the session with. The coach's whiteboard, built into the video.
Filmstrip — See Your Swing in 10 Key Positions
How MotionEdge generates a 10-frame filmstrip of your swing, how to adjust frames, zoom into impact, share filmstrips, and use them for swing comparison and AI coaching.
Hand Path Grading
How MotionEdge grades your downswing hand path — a soft visual aid for spotting over-the-top tendency, what affects the grade, and how to adjust the thresholds yourself.
Keyboard Shortcuts for Video Review
Use a physical keyboard on iPad, Mac, or iPhone to scrub frame-by-frame, jump to swing positions, and control playback — faster than touch alone.
Mac & iPad Zoom Controls for Swing Review
Zoom in on your swing frames, pan around impact details, and reset the view using keyboard shortcuts, trackpad pinch, or double-tap — on Mac, iPad, or any device with a keyboard.
Multiple Windows on Mac — Power-User Workflows
Open multiple Swing Review, AI Coach, comparison, and session windows side by side on Mac. How to invoke each window type, keyboard shortcuts, and the deep-analysis workflows the bigger screen unlocks.
Pose Overlays & the Posture Numbers
What the colored overlays on your swing video mean — the pose skeleton, setup and live overlays, angle arcs, and the hand-path trace — plus the Posture Check numbers that turn those positions into something you can track.
Release Metrics
Release timing, quality, and downswing efficiency — what these metrics measure, why they're not displayed from Watch IMU data, and how to evaluate release mechanics with high-FPS video.
Swing Metrics — Seeing Whether You Hold Your Posture Through the Swing
What the Swing Metrics panel measures — spine tilt and center-of-hips movement as the two key indicators of posture maintenance, plus general joint-angle tracking across the swing positions.
Tempo Ratio
Backswing-to-downswing timing ratio — how it's measured, why 3:1 is the Tour target, grading ranges. Works standalone on Watch.
Training Profiles & Stats — Working on One Thing at a Time
Training Profiles let you tell MotionEdge what you're working on — like 'shallow the transition' — so the grading thresholds, the Watch live feedback, and the AI Coach all focus on that specific goal. Plus how to read the training stats and which profile was active on a swing.
Video Review — Reading Your Swing
A tour of MotionEdge's Video Review screen — the panel system, the two ways most golfers work (quick AI critique vs. hands-on visual breakdown), comparing swings, drawing, documenting, and where to go deep on each panel.
AI Coaching
AI Coach — Can I Leave the App While My Swing Is Being Analyzed?
Yes — once you've sent a swing for analysis, you can lock the phone, switch apps, or close MotionEdge. We'll send a notification when it's ready.
AI Coach — How It Works and How to Use It
What MotionEdge's AI Coach is, how it analyzes your swing using video plus pose data plus radar numbers, the difference between the AI Coach tab and the in-Video-Review AI Analysis panel, and how to ask questions that produce useful answers.
AI Coach Packs — How They Work and When to Buy One
What an AI Coach Pack is — a one-time top-up that extends your AI Coach beyond your monthly subscription quota. Credits are valid for one year, only consumed after your monthly quota is fully used, and pool across the whole household if you share Pro via Apple Family Sharing.
Why Connect Your GHIN Handicap to MotionEdge?
Connecting your GHIN account keeps your handicap current automatically and lets the AI Coach work from your real on-course results — your handicap index and the actual rounds you've played — so the conversation is grounded in how you really score, not a guess.
Your Golfer Profile — Why It's Worth Filling Out (and What We Do With It)
What's in your golfer profile, why filling it out makes AI Coach feedback noticeably more useful, what the AI actually receives, and the things MotionEdge will never do with this data.
Camera & Capture
Auto-Detect Sensitivity
How the Auto-Detect Sensitivity slider works — what the underlying gates (stillness, swing speed, swing arc) do, how to read the live on-screen tuning panel to adjust by eye, how to stop false triggers from your pre-shot routine, and how to send diagnostic logs to support.
Camera Options on macOS vs iOS
Understand the camera differences when recording on Mac — built-in webcam, Continuity Camera, and Remote Camera mode each offer different levels of control.
Cinematic Video Stabilization
Apple cinematic stabilization applied to all capture modes for handheld recording — what it does, trade-offs, coverage.
Continuity Camera — Using Your iPhone as a Mac Camera
Continuity Camera lets you use your iPhone as a wireless camera on your Mac — but it has limitations for golf swing recording. Here's when to use it and when to record directly on iPhone.
Filmstrip & Video Quality
Stable camera and trimmed video requirements for accurate filmstrip swing position detection.
Hands-Free Capture — Using Siri and Shortcuts with MotionEdge
Six voice commands: capture a swing, open your last session, open your last swing, open today's session, open the AI Coach, or ask how many swings you've recorded today. Plus assigning capture to the Action Button and using the Shortcuts app and Spotlight.
Indoor Simulator FPS
Use 60 FPS for best automated impact detection in simulator bays with projector screens.
Live TrackMan Connection — Setup, Aim Point, and Real-Time Data
Connect MotionEdge directly to a TrackMan unit on your network — get real-time radar data paired with your own video capture, plus how to set the center aim point so club path, face angle, and launch direction are measured against the right target line.
MotionEdge and Shutter Speed Prioritization
MotionEdge prioritizes shutter speed to keep impact frames sharp — it starts at 1/250s and auto-adjusts for the least motion blur. How it works, how to force a faster shutter manually, and the indoor-simulator exception.
Quick Review vs Full Review — Choosing Your Practice Mode
How to use Quick Review mode for rapid-fire range sessions where you only save the swings you want, versus Full Review mode for deep analysis of every swing.
Reading the Capture Screen — Border Colors, Skeleton, and Logging
What the colored border around your screen means, what the dots on the skeleton overlay tell you, and how to share diagnostic logs with support when auto-detect isn't behaving.
Record at 720p for Smaller Files and Faster Analysis
Recording golf swings at 720p stores roughly half the data of 1080p and analyzes noticeably faster — with no loss in swing detection or pose accuracy. Here's why it's the recommended setting and how to switch.
The Camera Screen — Every Control You Have Before Pressing Record
A tour of every adjustable control on the MotionEdge capture screen — lighting (shutter + ISO), lens choice, resolution and frame rate, detection method, and the Remote Camera setup for multi-device capture.
Importing
Choosing Where Imports Go & Importing Multiple Files
Control which session your imported videos land in — imports go into the session you're currently viewing. Select multiple files at once to batch-import an entire range session.
Importing TrackMan Reports
How to import a shared TrackMan report link into MotionEdge — single-shot or multi-group reports with videos and full radar data, no file transfer needed.
Importing TrackMan Sessions
How to export a TrackMan stroke file from Performance Studio and import it into MotionEdge — get video analysis, Watch metrics, and AI coaching on top of your radar data.
Importing Videos from Any Source
Import swing videos from your camera roll, screen recordings, social media saves, or any source — build a reference library of pro swings and compare them to your own.
Slow-Motion Video Import
FPS mismatch when importing slo-mo videos — TrackMan handled automatically, third-party editors not supported.
Sync & Sharing
Comment Display Names — iCloud Name & Custom Override
How your name appears on comments when sharing sessions — it comes from your iCloud profile, but you can override it per device in iCloud Settings.
Deleting Your Data from iCloud
How to remove MotionEdge's data from iCloud to reclaim storage — the in-app Delete Data from iCloud button, Apple's system-level path, why you must turn off Sync on every device first, and what happens if you re-enable Sync later.
iCloud Sync — How It Works
What iCloud Sync does in MotionEdge — keeps every session, swing, video, and measurement in step across your iPhone, iPad, and Mac with no separate account. How to turn it on, what syncs, and how it powers shared sessions and storage offload.
Optimize Local Storage — How iCloud Video Offload Works
How MotionEdge reclaims space on your device by keeping older swing videos in iCloud — and downloads them automatically the moment you want to watch one again.
Recycle Bin, Data Deletion & Shared Sessions
How the Recycle Bin protects your data — deleted items are recoverable for 30 days, then permanently removed from all devices.
Shared Sessions — How Quickly Do Updates Appear?
Updates in a shared session don't always arrive at the same speed for everyone. If you're the owner of a session you've shared, expect a short delay before you see edits made by the people you shared with — this is expected behavior with iCloud.
Sharing Sessions with .mef Files
How to export, share, and import complete practice sessions between devices using MotionEdge's .mef file format — capture on your phone, analyze on your iPad or Mac, or share with a friend or coach.
Remote Camera
Remote Camera Over a Hotspot — Setup & Troubleshooting
Best practices for using MotionEdge's remote camera over an iPhone Personal Hotspot at the range, plus how to fix discovery issues — the in-app Troubleshoot Connection button, Private Wi-Fi Address, manual IP entry, and network checks.
Remote vs Director — What Each Device Shows
Pair devices for multi-angle capture — phones on tripods (the Remotes) plus a device you coordinate from (the Director, an iPad or a Mac). The roles don't show the same things by design. Here's what each shows, how multiple angles work, and how you pick the primary auto-detect camera.
Setting Up Remote Camera — Pairing Your Devices
How to set up Remote Camera in MotionEdge — broadcast from an iPhone on a tripod, pair an iPad or Mac as the Director, add a second camera for multi-angle capture, and pick the right network setup.