What is Kinovea?
Kinovea is a powerful, free and open source software solution for analyzing sports videos and breaking down movement in fine detail to help improve technique, performance and more. With frame-by-frame slow motion controls, multiple video angle synchronization, drawing tools to highlight motions on videos, and measurement tools like distance markers, protractors and stopwatches, Kinovea provides coaches, athletes and movement enthusiasts like physical therapists with deep capabilities to study movement.
Developed by Olympic coach Joan Charmant, Kinovea is designed specifically for sport use cases. Users can slow videos down up to 1% of real speed to closely examine details, synchronize and compare multiple videos side-by-side, overlay virtual drawings and lines on videos to emphasize angles and directions, precisely measure distances and time between events, add text annotations and more. These in-depth tools give new insight into subtle areas and opportunities for improvement.
Kinovea runs on Windows and Linux operating systems. With a simple, well organized interface effective at the pro and novice level, anyone can quickly get up and running analyzing video. And as free and open source software, Kinovea enjoys a community of collaborators seeking to continuously improve the solution over time. For affordable, accessible yet advanced sports video analysis, coaches, athletes and enthusiasts turn to Kinovea.