How to analyze a match from YouTube

To analyze a match that is on YouTube, paste the link into cliply, tag plays while the video plays, and share the resulting clips. You do not download or upload the video: cliply plays it from YouTube and stores only your tags, timings and annotations.

Step by step

1. Create a project, or open an existing one, and choose to add a video.
2. With Paste a link open, paste the YouTube URL or the video ID. cliply validates the link, pulls the title, and it is ready to tag immediately, with no upload or processing wait. See Upload videos.
3. Tag with the deck buttons or their keyboard shortcuts. Each press creates a clip around that moment. See Create clips.
4. Review the clips, adjust in and out points, and mark them with reactions such as Good, Important, Doubt or To fix.
5. Send a share link with the clips or a collection. The recipient needs no account.

If you copied a YouTube link and open the add-video panel, cliply detects it on the clipboard and offers to add it.

Try it without an account

The /try page lets you paste a YouTube match and tag it in the browser without signing up. It is a quick way to see whether the workflow fits before you create an organization. Features that need an account ask you to create one.

What you can do with a YouTube video

• Tag with the full deck, shortcuts included, and filter clips by tag.
• Draw on a frozen frame: arrows, shapes and pitch markers. See Drawing and telestration.
• Build collections and presentations from clips of one or several matches.
• Import and export the coding as XML, the format most video analysis tools share. See XML Inspector.
• Share clips by link and publish match stats.

Every video source works on the Free plan, which allows one project and up to five videos. Paid plans remove that cap. Prices are on pricing.

What you cannot do with YouTube

The video is not yours, so some limits apply:

• Private or age-restricted videos cannot be used. Public and unlisted videos work.
• Embedding disabled: some channels block playback outside YouTube, or block it in certain regions. The player says so and, in Chrome, Edge or Brave, offers to open the video in a YouTube tab.
• MP4 export: the browser cannot download from YouTube. Exporting clips as video needs a file of your own or the video in the cliply cloud.
• If the owner deletes it or makes it private, cliply keeps your tags and clips, but the video stops playing until you attach another source.
• Using it offline: offline review stores the coding, not the video. A YouTube video with no linked local file plays online only.

When cliply isn't the right fit

• If you need clips as video files from a match that exists only on YouTube, you need the original file. With the file on your computer, the browser cuts clips on paid plans; with the video in the cloud, export runs on the server, from the Club plan or with the Cloud add-on.
• If the footage is a broadcast you do not control and may disappear, keep your own copy if you need it all season.
• If several people must tag the same video at once in the same workspace, that is not available yet.

Next steps

If you work in field hockey, read Video analysis software for field hockey. To see why nothing needs installing, read Video analysis in the browser. To compare options, use the guide How to choose sports video analysis software.