Video Review — Reading Your Swing
Video Review is where you actually study a swing — frame by frame, with pose overlays, metrics, the filmstrip, TrackMan numbers, AI coaching, drawings, and side-by-side comparison. You'll spend more time here than on any other screen in the app.
The thing that makes it flexible is the panel system: the screen is divided into panels, and you swap each panel to show whatever you need at that moment. Watch the video, swap to the filmstrip to pick a position, swap to metrics to read a number, swap to the AI Coach to ask a question — then back to the video.
Two ways to work
Most golfers fall into one of two rhythms. Both start the same way — open a swing — and you can mix them freely.
Path 1 — Quick AI critique
You just want to know what to fix. Open the swing, switch a panel to AI Coach, and start a conversation about that swing. It reads the filmstrip frames, the pose data, your metrics, and any TrackMan numbers, then tells you what it sees in plain golfer language. Swap back to Video Player to scrub to whatever it flagged.
This is the fastest route from "here's a swing" to "here's the one thing to work on." See AI Coach.
Path 2 — Hands-on visual breakdown
You want to look for yourself. Scrub the Video Player frame by frame with the pose overlays on, jump between the 10 key positions in the Filmstrip, read the Posture Check numbers, and draw lines on the frame to confirm what your eye is telling you.
This is the route when you already know roughly what you're looking for and want to measure it. The deep dives:
- Pose Overlays & the Posture Numbers — the skeleton, the colored overlays, and what the body-position numbers mean
- Filmstrip — the 10 detected positions and how to scrub by them
- Drawing Tools — lines, angles, and circles that stick to the swing
The panels
Tap a panel's header (the small label at the top of each panel) to swap what it shows. The available panels:
| Panel | What it shows | Learn more |
|---|---|---|
| Video Player | The swing video with playback controls, pose overlays, and a per-panel scrubber. | Pose Overlays |
| Filmstrip | The 10 key positions (address, top, impact, finish…) as a strip. Tap one to scrub there. | Filmstrip |
| Posture Check | Address vs impact — spine tilt, plus hip depth (down-the-line) or lateral shift (face-on). | Posture Check |
| Hand Path | Backswing vs downswing hand path with a 🟢 / 🟡 / 🔴 over-the-top read (down-the-line). | Hand Path Grading |
| Shoulder Tilt | Shoulder plane at the top vs just after impact (down-the-line). | Shoulder Tilt |
| Shot Trajectory | Side + overhead 3D flight when TrackMan recorded trajectory. | Shot Trajectory |
| TrackMan Data | Radar data — ball speed, launch, spin, path, face. | Live TrackMan |
| Swing Summary | The swing's details — name, club, tags, person, date, favorite, location. All editable. | Document, Comment & Find |
| Comments | A comment thread on the swing — your own notes or a conversation in a shared collection. | Document, Comment & Find |
| AI Coach | AI Coach commentary on this swing, plus follow-up conversation. | AI Coach |
| Watch Data | Apple Watch sensors and session context — heart rate, tags, environment. Not a 3:1 score. | Apple Watch Overview |
Every panel has Help for whatever it is showing — the header ? today, and Help at the bottom of that panel's More menu once that menu lands.
The toolbar
The top of Video Review carries the swing's identity and a few key actions:
- Swing name + position indicator (e.g., "Swing 7 of 12") — and forward/back arrows to move through the session without leaving the screen
- Camera angle — for swings recorded from multiple angles, switch which one you're viewing
- Drawing tools — annotate the frame; drawings stay on the swing and sync to shared collections. See Drawing Tools
- Overflow menu — Share Video (the clip), Share this frame (a still of this playhead — MotionEdge 1.1 and later; see Share this frame), export to a MotionEdge File, and more
?help — opens this article in an in-app help view (a Done button returns you exactly where you were)
On Mac the toolbar lives in the window's title bar; on iPhone and iPad it's the top edge of the screen.
Comparing two swings
To put two swings together, use the Video Player panel's compare controls — not a separate "compare" mode:
- Reference overlays or sits another swing beside the current one, with a toggle for overlay vs. side-by-side and a sync-lock to scrub them together.
- Ghost overlays a faded copy of the same swing for self-comparison.
The full walkthrough — picking the other swing, opacity, sync-lock — is in Comparing Swings. On a Mac you can also open multiple Swing Review windows for true side-by-side; see Multiple Windows on Mac.
Documenting a swing
Beyond watching it, you can record what a swing means: name it, set the club, add tags, and leave comments. That's how a swing stays findable and meaningful weeks later. See Document, Comment & Find Your Swings.
Platform differences
- iPhone — one panel at a time; swap as you work. Most efficient for one-swing-at-a-time review at the range.
- iPad — typically two panels side by side; multi-touch zoom and scrub.
- Mac — any number of panels at any size, and multiple review windows at once.
Drawings, AI analyses, metrics, and everything else are identical across platforms — only the layout and input change.