Adding Overlay Graphics to Video Highlights

This guide explains how to add overlay graphics to video highlights in NV Play Cricket, and how to re-encode video clips for older matches if needed.

Turn on overlay graphics

1. Go to Tools > Configuration. The Configuration dialogue opens.
2. Click the Clipping tab on the Configuration dialogue.
   

   

3. Tick the Enable Overlay Graphics on Web Clips checkbox.
4. Click OK to save.

What happens next

Once enabled:

• Overlay graphics are applied to video clips uploaded to the Match Centre and Match Portal.
• If a ball is edited and that edit affects its overlay, the software re-encodes and re-uploads the clip with the new overlay.
• If a ball is deleted, all affected subsequent clips are also re-encoded and re-uploaded.

When opening a match with Capture/Edit Video enabled, NV Play Cricket checks whether overlay graphics were used on that match’s video clips and updates your user settings to ensure consistency across machines.

Apply or remove overlays for an existing match

To automatically re-encode ball clips to add or remove overlays:

1. Open the match in NV Play Cricket.
2. Go to Tools > Configuration. The Configuration dialogue opens.
3. Click the Clipping tab on the Configuration dialogue.
4. Tick or untick Enable Overlay Graphics on Web Clips as required.
5. When prompted, choose whether to re-encode all ball clips.

To manually re-encode ball clips:

1. Go to Video > Re-encode Ball Clips. The Re-encode Video dialogue opens.
2. Select the match period to re-encode from the radio buttons.
3. Click the Re-encode button.
   

   

Create packages with or without overlays

To create highlights packages with clean footage (no overlays), use the Video Package Manager:

1. Go to Video > Video Packages >  Generate Highlights Package. The Generate Highlights Package dialogue opens.
   

   

2. Tick the Use unencoded video only checkbox.
3. Click Create.