Help & FAQ
Everything you need to know about using MotionEdge.
Getting Started
Setup & Camera
Auto-Detect Sensitivity
How the Auto-Detect Sensitivity slider works — what the two underlying gates (swing speed and swing arc) actually do, how to tune for your normal pre-shot routine without false triggers, and how to send diagnostic logs to support if detection still misses your swings.
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.
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.
Detection Confidence & Lighting
How to tune skeleton detection for indoor LED, simulator, and outdoor environments to reduce jitter and missed detections.
Filmstrip & Video Quality
Stable camera and trimmed video requirements for accurate filmstrip swing position detection.
Indoor Simulator FPS
Use 60 FPS for best automated impact detection in simulator bays with projector screens.
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.
Reducing Motion Blur — Shutter Speed and ISO
How to use the camera's manual shutter speed and ISO controls to sharpen up your impact frames — when to favor a faster shutter, when to leave the camera on Auto, and the important indoor-simulator exception.
Remote Camera — What's on the Remote vs the Director
When you pair two devices for remote capture, the iPhone on the tripod (the Remote) and the iPad you're using to coordinate (the Director) don't show the same things — by design. Here's what each one shows, what's silent on the Remote, and why the split exists.
Recording & Capture
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.
Cinematic Video Stabilization
Apple cinematic stabilization applied to all capture modes for handheld recording — what it does, trade-offs, coverage.
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.
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.
Slow-Motion Video Import
FPS mismatch when importing slo-mo videos — TrackMan handled automatically, third-party editors not supported.
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 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.
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
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.
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
An overview of MotionEdge's Video Review screen — the panel system, how to swap between Video / Filmstrip / Metrics / TrackMan / AI Coach views, the toolbar, drawings, and how to find help for any specific panel.
Sharing & Export
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.