With MagicSports 3, you get a brand new way of watching recorded TV sports programs on the PC. Sit back while advanced game detection technology finds the most exciting highlights of baseball and soccer games. Browse highlights easily through an automatically generated thumbnail summary of the best "highlights". Then, keep your new video of game highlights to be watched later, or easily shared with your family and friends.
Baseball and Soccer Analysis
Identifies highlights of baseball and soccer games broadcast on TV.
Import your recorded sports programs and let MagicSports locate the best parts of each game.
Automatically checks its analysis against the baseball scoreboard display for ultimate accuracy.
Calibrate the area of analysis around the scoreboard.
Selecting the best bits
Two sports modules—Soccer and Baseball—identify the highlights of games recorded from TV sports programs.
MagicSports interprets the following events in defining a game's key moments:
Baseball
Soccer
- Pitches
- Goals and near goals
- Strikes and walks
- Issuing of red and yellow cards
- Home runs
- Rule violations, such as fights
- Points scored
- Accidents and injuries
Baseball Highlights' "Star Rating"
Automatically rates the highlights of baseball games (i.e. pitches, home runs, strikes)
Classifies highlights according to their excitement as 1, 2, or 3 stars.
- Home runs, leading runs, the home team scores
- Solo home runs, triples, left on third base
- Strikeouts, doubles, wild pitches, nice plays
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- Pitches and other game events
Easy Onscreen Controls
Navigate between highlights easily thanks to a transparent thumbnail menu, keeping the game visible behind, and powered with 3D graphics display cards
Access navigation features such as play, pause, forward, and skip via a control bar.
Baseball Next Pitch Button
Quickly jump to each new stage of the action with New Next Pitch and Last Pitch buttons, located on the onscreen controls.
Automatically detects the number and location of each pitch in a game, making it easier for you to skip through game highlights.
Making a Sports Video
Outputs a file of game highlights as MPEG-2 or MPEG-1 files.
Add or remove scenes from MagicSports’ recommended game summary and type your own file name using the onscreen keyboard.
Choose between a recommended length for your sports video, seven pre-defined lengths, or the option to customize the length.
Vista Compatibility
Searches the Recorded TV folder on a user’s PC, ensuring video analysis won’t impact CPU performance.
Automatically recognize the type of sport being analyzed based on electronic program guide (EPG) information.
Supports digital rights management, preventing analysis of protected DVR-MS content. MagicSports is also Windows Vista ready.