People have always liked sports and games and my guess is that this habit is inherited from our ancestors who used to chase the animals for food. In time they did not have to do this any more, but used to invent and play games just for fun, especially the rich people. This is how pool or billiards came into being, when some wealthy English lords wanted to spend their long winter nights indoors , but at the same time to enjoy a nice activity. Little by little pool became very popular in all the British colonies and they even have their world championship where the best pool players come to show off with their tricks and best shots. But such incredible skills can only be acquired through lots of practice and also improvement of native skills. And what way to improve your pool shots that to see your own mistakes. I agree you can learn a lot by looking at the best players’ games , but you can improve your skills only by correcting your mistakes.
Now you can do this by recording your shots and then watching them. this way you can analyze your every move with criticism and see exactly what you did wrong and after that correct it. StrokeAnalyzer 1.0.3 is the perfect tool for you if you want to do this. It is a very useful software application for web camera recording and playing back.
This software has many features that allow you to use it for recording and playing back images (not only from pool, but also from other sports, too). It captures the video from web cameras or video cameras and displays it on your computer screen. It can use any type of USB web camera and then watch the images you obtained and analyze them in order to find the eventual flaws and mistakes in your execution of the pool strokes. So you have access to the marker tools that will help you analyze each image for example 3 line types, freehand, rectangle, ellipse, text and angle measurement).
When you use StrokeAnalyzer 1.0.3 to play back the images recorded , you can even analyze each frame, as there is a very thorough observation process and during this time you will use exactly the same buttons of command like in a media player that is Play, Pause, Forward, Rewind. You can go back and forth in any moment in time in the video, either using the buttons or by easily pushing the slider to find the exact moment that you want. The software not only catches the images on web cam, but it can save them on your computer in different formats like AVI , WMV and even JPEG after you have used the markers.
If you are a bit of a professional pool player you will certainly be interested to find out the speed you had when breaking the balls and now you can perform a speed analysis with this software and can find out this , too. The interface is very user friendly and simple and if you have some problems using it, there is a very generous Help department that will give you very clear instructions regarding the installing and using of the software, so that you focus more on analyzing your pool strokes rather than spending more time on software related activities. You can get a seven days free trial here and you can also purchase the whole package if you are interested.
