Video analysis that ends up in the player’s record, not a folder.
Open the footage your club already has — a Veo link, a YouTube link, a clip from a phone. Mark the moment, talk over it, send it to the players it’s about, or sit one of them down and go through it live. Every clip attaches to that player’s development record and reaches their family with Sunday’s report.
No camera to buy · no footage hosted · capture stays with Hudl or Veo
What Vimasu Studio is
Vimasu Studio is the video-analysis layer inside Vimasu, built for youth sports clubs rather than for professional analysts. A coach opens footage the club already has — a Veo match link, a YouTube link or a file — marks the moment with arrows and a spotlight, talks over it, and sends a short clip to specific players. The clip lands on each player's development record and goes out to their family with the weekly report. Vimasu sells no camera and stores no footage.
For coaches
Get paid for the film session you already give away.
Publish a 1:1 at your own price, take it from a browser, and invoice it where the club already invoices.
How coaches earnFor players & parents
Ten seconds of their season, kept.
Clips with the coach’s voice on them, a vertical highlight your phone can share, and a resume a recruiter will believe.
What families getDraw on it yourself
Every mark is already data.
A dashed arrow is a pass. A solid one is a run. A ring is a moment worth looking at. Coaches pick that before they draw, so a season of mark-up answers a question no clip library can: what has this player actually been coached on? Tap the frame and watch the record fill in.
Tap where the pass starts
What the record gets
Not a video file. A player, a theme, and what their coach has been coaching.
- Passes coached on
- 1
- Runs coached on
- 0
- Dribbles coached on
- 0
- Moments coached on
- 0
Coached on, never completed. A coach marks where the coaching is, not where the ball is — so 1 mark is a moment worth talking about, not a match statistic.
In the product this clip is now assigned to Alex, sent to their guardian as a private link, and queued with Sunday’s report — and it is still there next September.
How a session runs
Five steps, none of them an upload.
01
Bring the footage you already have
Paste a Veo match link and Vimasu resolves it to the seekable file Veo's own player uses — a 90-minute match is scrubbable in seconds without anybody exporting or uploading a 3 GB render. A YouTube link works the same way. So does a clip filmed on a phone. There is no camera to buy and nothing to migrate.
02
Mark the moment the coaching is in
Draw the pass that was on, the run that was not made, the space nobody occupied. Spotlight a player, drop a line to show the distance, add a label. Marks are stored as fractions of the frame rather than pixels, so an arrow drawn on a laptop lands on the same blade of grass on a parent’s phone.
03
Say it in your own voice
Record a voice note over the clip, or against one specific mark, and it is transcribed so a family can read it on a bus. This is the part a rating cannot do: "work on your receiving angles" is a sentence, and ten seconds of film with a coach talking over it is the same sentence made obvious.
04
Cut it and send it to the players it is about
Trim a slice, assign it to the players in it, and press send. Each of those players’ guardians gets a private link to that clip and nothing else, and the clip appears in the family’s app. You can see who actually opened it, counted separately for the guardian and the player, because those are not the same event.
05
Or sit them down and go through it live
Open a film room and the player joins from a link in a text message — no install, no account, no meeting ID. You both watch the same frame at the same moment while you draw on it and talk. Recording plays back exactly what they saw, and the session attaches to their record like any other clip.
And after the whistle
Watch it back together. Then charge for the hour.
The live half of Studio, in four acts: a coach marks a moment, the player joins from a text message, the clip lands in three places, and a private session gets invoiced on the club’s own billing.
Alex · U13
Coach Sarah · voice note
“Check your shoulder before it arrives — you have Maya free behind you the whole time.”
In the room
Invite sent · one tap to join
Private session
Ready to invoice
Why it isn’t another clip tool
The difference isn’t the video. It’s where the video goes.
The clip lands in the player’s record
This is the whole argument. In every other video tool a clip's final resting place is a folder, a feed or a chat thread, and by August nobody can find February. In Vimasu the clip attaches to the player it is about, next to their evaluations, their season story and the parent reports — so a coach opening a returning player in September sees what the last coach showed them in March.
Marks become countable coaching data
Every arrow already carries an action: a dashed arrow is a pass, a solid one a run, a carry a dribble, a ring a moment worth looking at. Reading that vocabulary back gives a director something no clip library has — what a coach has actually been coaching, by player, by theme, over a season. It is deliberately labelled "coached on", never "completed": three passes marked is three passes worth talking about, not three passes played.
It rides the report families already open
A clip that needs a parent to remember a second app is a clip nobody watches. Studio clips go out where the club’s development communication already goes — the weekly report and the family app — which is also why review rates are a number a director can act on rather than a vanity metric.
Nothing is hosted, so nothing is throttled
A clip is a start time, an end time and a URL pointing at your own footage host. There is no upload queue, no storage tier to outgrow, no 50-hours-of-video line on an invoice, and no second copy of a child’s footage sitting on a vendor’s bucket. Your film stays where you put it.
It is not soccer-only
The mark vocabulary — a movement, a distance, a place to look — is common to every sport played on a surface, and Vimasu carries the rest of the development model across every sport it supports. Video analysis that only produces numbers for one sport is a soccer product with a wider marketing page.
The hour can be billable
A coach already reviews film with a family for free in a car park. Studio makes it a session: published at the coach’s own price, taken from a kitchen table, invoiced on the club’s existing billing rail rather than on Venmo — so private work becomes club revenue instead of something arranged on the side. (Booking and lessons are in beta.)
At a glance
- Footage sources
- Veo share link, YouTube link, or a video file you upload
- Video hosting
- None. A clip is a time range against your own host
- Mark-up
- Pass, run and dribble arrows, distance lines, spotlights, text
- Voice
- Voice note on a clip or on a single mark, transcribed
- Live sessions
- 1:1 film room in the browser — no app, no account
- Delivery
- Private link to the guardian, plus the family app
- Proof it landed
- Review receipts per clip, by guardian and by player
- Sports
- All of them — the mark vocabulary is not soccer-only
- Cost
- Part of the club subscription. No camera, no per-team video fee
Compared with the tools you already know
Different job, same footage.
Hudl and Veo are capture and film-breakdown platforms. OnForm is a technique-feedback app for a coach and one athlete. Studio starts where their footage ends — which is why most clubs keep the camera they have and add this on top.
| Vimasu Studio | Hudl | Veo | OnForm | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| What it is for | Coaching a player with footage, and keeping what was coached | Capturing, breaking down and sharing game film | Filming the match automatically and analysing it | Fast 1:1 video feedback on technique, mobile-first |
| Where footage comes from | Your Veo link, a YouTube link, or a file — nothing to migrate | Hudl capture, uploads, or a Hudl camera | A Veo camera you buy | Filmed in the app, or uploaded |
| Draw on the frame | Yes — and each mark carries an action, so it counts as data | Yes | Yes | Yes, with slow-motion and side-by-side comparison |
| Live session with the family | Yes — browser film room, joined from a link, nothing installed | No — sharing and comments, not a live room | No | Asynchronous by design — record and send |
| Where the clip ends up | On the player’s development record, beside their evaluations | In the team’s video library | In the match archive | In the athlete’s thread with that coach |
| Reaches the parent | Private link to the guardian, plus the weekly development report | Athlete and parent accounts on the team’s video | Team sharing | A parent can be added to an under-18 athlete’s thread |
| Video storage | None — clips are time ranges against your host | Hours of storage, by tier | Recording hours, by tier | Athlete and storage limits, by tier |
| Cost model | Included in the club subscription — no camera, no per-team fee | Per team, per year | Camera purchase plus a subscription | Per coach, per month |
Where Hudl is the better call
If your job is game film — capturing it, breaking it down with a full tagging workflow, streaming it, and using it for college recruiting — Hudl is the mature standard and we do not attempt it. Many clubs keep Hudl for capture and use Studio for the coaching conversation afterwards.
Where Veo is the better call
If nobody can be found to film, a Veo camera solves a problem no software solves: it records the whole pitch unattended and tags key moments. That is exactly why we resolve Veo links instead of competing with them — buy the camera, then coach with the footage here.
Where OnForm is the better call
For a private technique coach working one athlete at a time — a golf swing, a pitching motion, high-frame-rate capture and side-by-side comparison — OnForm is purpose-built and excellent. Studio is built for a club with 200 players and a development record to keep.
Deeper, page-length comparisons: Vimasu vs Hudl · Vimasu vs Veo · every comparison
Footage of somebody’s child
The rules were written before the features.
Every video product for youth sports has to answer this, and most answer it in a policy page. These are the four places where the answer changed what got built.
There is no "share to Instagram" button
Posting a named child’s footage to a public platform needs that child’s guardian’s consent, for that clip, on that platform, revocably — and the club holds that relationship, not us. So a club can export a file and post it themselves. We never become the distributor of other people’s children.
The family mints the share link, not the coach
When a parent wants to send a clip to a grandparent, they create a link that resolves to that one clip and expires in 30 days. A coach cannot mint it. The recipient sees one clip and a coach’s note — no roster, no other family, no other child.
The coach’s voice never leaves in an export
A voice note is a coach talking about one child, by name, to that child’s family. Club exports carry the film and the marks — never the commentary — because the alternative is the most private thing in the product landing on a public feed one convenient button away.
Assigned, not merely on the team
A clip reaches the guardians of the players it was actually sent to. Audio is served from a private bucket through short-lived signed URLs after that relationship is re-derived on the server, so a forwarded link cannot become a standing door into a household’s footage.
More on how the platform handles data: security & privacy.
Questions directors actually ask
Straight answers.
What is Vimasu Studio?
Vimasu Studio is the video-analysis layer inside Vimasu, built for youth sports clubs rather than for professional analysts. A coach opens footage the club already has — a Veo match link, a YouTube link or a file — marks the moment with arrows and a spotlight, talks over it, and sends a short clip to specific players. The clip lands on each player's development record and goes out to their family with the weekly report. Vimasu sells no camera and stores no footage.
Do I need a camera or special hardware?
No. Studio works on footage you already have — a Veo share link, a YouTube link, or a video file from a phone or a club camera. Vimasu does not sell a camera and does not require one.
Do you host or store our video?
No, and that is a design decision rather than a limitation. A clip in Vimasu is a start time, an end time and a URL pointing at your own footage host, so nothing is uploaded, nothing is re-encoded, and there is no storage tier to outgrow. It also means no second copy of a child's footage exists on our infrastructure.
Is Vimasu a Hudl or Veo replacement?
Not for capture. Hudl and Veo film matches and break down game film, and Studio does neither — it starts where their footage ends. Most clubs run both: capture stays with Hudl or Veo, and the coaching conversation, the 1:1 sessions and the record of what was coached live in Vimasu. Hudl publishes single-team club soccer packages at USD $500, $1,000 and $2,500 per team per year; Veo pairs a camera purchase with a subscription. Studio is part of one club subscription with no per-team video fee.
How is this different from OnForm or the old Coach’s Eye?
Those are analysis tools: a coach marks up a clip and sends it. Studio does that too, and then answers the question they leave open — where does the clip live afterwards. In Vimasu it attaches to that player's development record beside their evaluations and parent reports, so a coach meeting the player next season can see it. Coach's Eye was retired by TechSmith and is no longer a working service; OnForm is priced per coach, per month, while Studio comes with the club subscription.
Can a parent or player join a live session without installing anything?
Yes. The film room runs in the browser. The player or guardian taps a link from a text message and is in the room — no app, no account, no meeting ID. The coach draws on the frame while they both watch the same moment, and the session can be recorded and replayed exactly as it was seen.
How do we know a family actually watched the clip?
Every clip carries a review receipt, and guardian reviews are counted separately from player reviews because an account belongs to a household and the two are not the same event. A director can see review rates by team rather than guessing whether the video work is landing.
Is it safe to send footage of a minor?
That question shaped the architecture. Clips reach only the guardians of the players a clip was actually assigned to, audio is served from private storage through short-lived signed links, only the family can mint a shareable link (it resolves to one clip and expires in 30 days), and exports never carry the coach’s voice note. There is no button that posts a child to a public platform.
Which sports does it work for?
All of them. The mark vocabulary — a movement, a distance, a place to look — is common to any sport played on a surface, and Vimasu carries age-banded rubrics and development reporting across every sport it supports rather than only soccer.
Can coaches charge for a 1:1 film session?
Yes. A coach can publish a private session at their own price and have it invoiced on the club’s existing billing rail, so the club shares in work that would otherwise be arranged and paid for on the side. Booking and lessons are currently in beta.
Is Studio included in our plan, or is it an add-on?
It is part of the Vimasu club subscription — there is no separate video SKU and no per-team video fee. It is being switched on club by club during the rollout, so ask us to enable it for your club and we will.
Sources · checked August 2026
- Hudl club soccer single-team packages: Core $500, Plus $1,000, Premier $2,500 per team per year (Core available only within a club package). hudl.com — Club Soccer pricing
- Veo prices a camera purchase separately from a tiered subscription with recording-hour limits; Veo Analytics 2 is listed for soccer. veo.com — pricing
- OnForm Coach Pro is listed at $59/month or $599/year under the tiers effective 6 April 2026. support.onform.com — 2026 coaching tiers
- “Coach’s Eye has been retired and is no longer a working service.” coachseye.com — retirement notice
Competitors change their pricing; these figures are what their own pages published on the date above, not a quote for your club.
Your footage is already sitting there.
Bring one match link and send your first clip this week — across any of the 27 sports Vimasu supports.
Last updated August 2026 · everything else Vimasu replaces