Editing Videos

The PointShot editor is where games and practices become short, named, categorized clips you can review, favorite, filter, and send to a specialist. Open it from any video’s actions menu in your video library.

Hotkeys

Hotkeys are the difference between flagging a moment as it happens and pausing to dig through a menu every time. PointShot lets you bind number keys on your keyboard to the categories you use most.

Open Manage Categories → Hotkeys to assign categories to hotkey slots. With the editor focused and the video playing, press a bound number key to instantly clip the current playhead with that category’s buffer and duration. No menus, no clicks, no missed moments.

The “0” key on your keyboard opens the custom clip pop-up so you can pick a category, name, and description by hand — useful when the moment doesn’t fit one of your bound categories or you want to add notes as you go.

Creating clips

Three ways to create a clip, all working off the current playhead:

Press a hotkey while the video is playing. PointShot pauses briefly, creates the clip with the bound category’s buffer/duration, and resumes playback. A small confirmation chip appears in the top corner of the player.
Open the scissors menu at the bottom-right of the player to see your hotkey-bound categories as buttons. Click any of them to create a clip the same way.
Open the custom clip pop-up from that same menu (or from its hotkey) when you want to pick any category, set a custom name, and write a description before the clip is saved.

The player keeps responding to spacebar (play/pause) and the arrow keys (seek backward or forward five seconds) throughout, so you can move around the video without leaving the keyboard.

Editing clips

Open any clip’s edit pop-up from the three-dot menu in its row. You can change:

Category: Recategorize without losing the clip itself.
Name: The clip’s display name. Defaults to the category name when blank.
Description: Freeform notes, coaching cues, or context for whoever sees this clip next. Shown to specialists when the clip travels with a job.
Start and end times: Adjust the clip window precisely. Times use HH:MM:SS format with adjusters for fine control. The pop-up enforces that start is before end and end is within the video’s runtime.

Changing the category does not re-snap start/end to the new category’s buffer and duration — the bounds you’ve set are preserved.

Working with clips

The clip list

Every clip you’ve created on the active video sits in the panel below the player. Each row shows the thumbnail, name, category, time range, and description.

Row actions

- Play the clip by clicking its thumbnail. The player jumps to the clip’s start and loops between start and end until you deselect it. - Favorite with the heart icon for quick access via the favorites filter. - Edit or Delete from the three-dot context menu. - Deselect the active clip with the Deselect Clip button that appears at the top of the list while a clip is playing.

Filtering the list

- Filter by category with the multi-select dropdown at the top of the clip list. Only categories that have at least one clip on the current video show up. - Favorites only toggle hides everything except hearted clips. On mobile, the favorites toggle is hidden for space.

The player

The player itself does a few editor-specific things on top of standard playback:

AB-loop on selected clips

When you click a clip to play it, PointShot sets an AB-loop on the player between the clip’s start and end. The clip plays in a loop until you deselect it, pick a different clip, or seek outside the loop bounds. AB-loop controls are visible in the player control bar on larger screens for manual adjustment.

Restart button

While a clip is selected, a restart button appears next to the player. Click it to jump back to the clip’s start without leaving the loop.

Clip info on hover

When a clip is selected, an info icon overlays the player. Hover it to see the clip’s name, category, and description without leaving the player — useful when you’re scrubbing through a long set of clips and need a quick reminder of what you’re looking at.

The left sidebar is your library while inside the editor. From the top down:

Library link back to the full video library.
Search to filter your videos by title or source. Type at least three characters to apply.
Favorites filter to show only videos you’ve hearted.
Upload New Video opens the same upload pop-up described in Uploading Videos, so you can add footage without leaving the editor.
Manage Categories opens the category and hotkey pop-up.
Video list with every video that matches your filters. Click any video to load it into the player and pull up its clips.

Mobile

Nearly every editor feature works in a mobile browser. A few are hidden for space — the favorite heart on each clip row, the AB-loop controls on the player — but the core flow (load a video, create clips with hotkeys or the scissors menu, edit them, favorite them) is fully usable on a phone. Swipe left or right between the sidebar and the player view to switch between library browsing and active editing.

To keep clips from looping indefinitely without the AB-loop controls available, mobile auto-deselects the active clip after one loop iteration. Hit the thumbnail again to replay.

One workflow this enables: film your drills on your phone, upload as you walk to the locker room, and sit with your athlete in the lobby by the time you’re both undressed to review the film. Cut clips together, then pass them through a job for the athlete to review.