Cheercast Replay Beta Testing

How to use our new judging system

Click the “View” icon next to a routine to open that routine in our new judging system, it will automatically open in a new page.

When on the new routine viewer page, you will see the following elements:

• Routine Information
• Routine Video Player (left column)
• Annotation Manager (right column)

The Routine Information box shows the current routines data, including the Item Number, Team Name, Program Name, Division, Discipline & Compete Time

The Routine Video Player shows the routine video itself. This is also the section that you can add drawings to when an annotation is added. The cog icon allows you to access the playback speed settings. Hint: Press Shift++ (plus) to speed up or Shift+- (minus) to slow down the video. Use Shift+0 (zero) to return to the normal speed.

The Annotation Manager section allows you to do the following:

• Set the Start Time of the Routine
• Set the End Time of the Routine
• Add an Annotation
• Edit one of your own Annotations
• See other Annotations

Adding an Annotation:

By clicking the "Add Annotation" button, this will add an Annotation at the current playhead time. Other options when Adding an Annotation include:

• Set the duration: this is how long the annotation remains active on the screen
• Set the type: current options include Deduction, Warning and Comment
• Comment: add a comment via a Rich Text Editor
• Draw: add a square, circle or freehand drawing with the ability to edit the shape's colour, or delete the shape when selected. Hint: Press the 'Delete' key while a shape is selected to delete it
• Visibility: set the visibility of the annotation for other users (this is still under development).

Editing one of your own Annotations

Select an annotation (either directly via the playbar OR in the annotation list) and press the "Edit" button to edit the annotation.

Viewing other Annotations

By default you can see any other annotations that have their Visibility set to any option which includes "Judges". If an annotation is set to "Just Me" no-one else will see your annotation.

List of Shortcuts:

How to provide feedback

On the routine page, you will see a “Report Issue” button on the right hand side of the screen. You can click this to open our reporting tool (Marker.io) which will allow you to report either an “Improvement” or a “Bug” (by selecting the “Issue Type”). You can draw over the screenshot and provide additional information in the “Description” text area.

General recommendations & suggestions

If using Chrome, we recommend installing the Marker.io extension to enable support for taking screenshots of videos and drawings. If you are using a different browser and screenshots show a black screen where the video should be, you may need to take screenshots with your operating system and upload these via the upload icon in the “Descripton” text area.

We encourage you to be as detailed as possible with both your feedback/suggestions and bug reporting so we can ensure our team are able to quickly and efficiently fix issues and come up with solutions.

In addition to our reporting tool, we’d appreciate if you are able to screen record your testing session and upload this to the provided Google Drive folder (sent via email). If you are on Windows 11, see these instructions for recording your screen and if you are on Mac, see these instructions. If you feel comfortable, you can also activate your microphone and provide audio feedback as you test the system.

Known Issues

We’ll try and keep a list of known issues here so you don’t need to report these!

• Annotation requires comment to save (i.e. save button won’t work unless a comment exists) and no error message is shown to indicate this.
• Visibility/Exporting settings are still a work-in-progress.
• Drawing area cut off sometimes when page is resized – refresh page to get correctly sized drawing area for now
• Resizing page causes drawings to incorrectly change position
• Viewing annotations across different screen sizes results in drawings changing their position
• Start and end time markers are shown even when either are not set.
• Using filters/changing pages causes routines to revert to the popup viewer instead of the new full page system

Features We Are Working On

This is what is still in progress:

• Adding an annotation doesn't pause the video - IN PROGRESS (this will be a user preference)
• Delivering routines from local server when judge is ONSITE - IN PROGRESS
• Visibility & Exporting settings - IN PROGRESS
• Zooming into Video without entire page needing to zoom - INVESTIGATING
• Integration with Hit Zero - INVESTIGATING