Parents: make a softball highlight from phone clips

Yes. Upload the softball clips already in your camera roll. NextPlay finds likely plays and cuts the downtime, so you do not have to scrub every clip or build the edit by hand. Review the detected moments, choose what belongs in one Highlight, then download or share it yourself.

Upload clips filmed around your athlete using My athlete. For wide team footage, use Coach Film and remove the other plays after reviewing the cut. NextPlay does not automatically identify one athlete throughout team film.

Watch the finished reel, then copy its share link or download the MP4. Use a landscape Recruiting Highlight when that format fits the recipient. You choose the recipients and send the video yourself.

Yes, a full softball game is analysed play by play as a Game Tape or Coach Film, with every detected play in order and nothing left out. A full game takes over an hour to analyse; the cut is complete, never trimmed to a runtime. Fixed wide-angle sideline cameras are supported: NextPlay finds the region of the field where the game is being played and cuts plays from it at full resolution.

For softball, download the video file from Hudl (open the video, three-dot menu, Download Video — or ask the coach/team admin), then upload it; when you want clips back in Hudl, download NextPlay's clip package (one MP4 per clip) and upload it with Hudl's own uploader. You can import recordings from a public Veo club library link. Your coach/team admin may need to enable Hudl uploading; delete the ZIP and extracted MP4s from your computer after Hudl finishes uploading.

Plans for softball highlights start from $14.99/month (or $99/year) for Athlete; Family is $24.99/month (or $179/year), Team $149/month and Team Pro $249/month. Creating an account is free, but adding film needs a plan; there is no watermark, and you can cancel anytime. There are iPhone and Android apps too: on iPhone you can subscribe through the App Store, and Android plans are bought on the website.

Yes, the Recruiting Highlight is a landscape, muted MP4 and share link that you send to coaches yourself. NextPlay does not send messages to coaches.

No. NextPlay cuts every play for the whole field and does not track a player or read jersey numbers. Mark athlete lets you tap your athlete on any play — circle, arrow or spotlight — and the mark is burned into the downloaded video. Film that follows one player (phone footage, a Trace or Veo player view) keeps them in more of the clips. Team plans can use roster numbers to suggest which athlete each play belongs to.

Keep the pitcher’s full delivery and the ball reaching the catcher in frame. Upload several pitching clips and review which sequences to keep.

Yes, upload clips showing contact and the run for a slap, the receive and throw for a catcher, or the pickup and throw for a fielder. Keep the ball and your athlete visible through the sequence.

Yes. The Athlete Season Pass is $40.99 on the web for 3 months of access with one payment. It does not auto-renew. Another pass adds three months when you need it.