Insights

Notes from the video team

Engineering write-ups, method notes and the occasional argument about frame rates.

12 Nov 2026

From 1.2 terabytes to a 20-second clip

What actually happens between the arena upload and the moment a coach presses play, and why the interesting constraints are all about video.

28 Oct 2026

Why 25 fps is the wrong number to argue about

Puck tracking fails on shutter speed and occlusion long before it fails on frame rate.

09 Oct 2026

Storage is a scouting decision

Retention policy quietly determines which seasons your analysts can still learn from.

21 Sep 2026

Six renditions, one truth

Why every source is rendered into the same ladder, and what breaks when it is not.

02 Sep 2026

The cost of a re-encode

Rendering clips from the master instead of the proxy saved us a third of the GPU bill.

14 Aug 2026

What forty minutes of scrubbing does to a scout

Time-on-task measured across four clubs before and after shift-level search.