I record myself playing pool...

[dquarasr]

I did the video thing one time years ago, only mentioning it because it turned out funny. I had a 10 ft Victor snooker table that a local pool room gave me to get it out of their storage. I put it in my garage and and put it up with new simonis and became an American Snooker player, at home anyway. Well long story short, I can only bring myself to play so much snooker, especially mostly by myself, so I broke out my old set of centenials and started playing pool on it. Now the 3 3/16 pockets were tight with the 2 1/8 snooker balls, the 2 1/4 centenials made it that much more fun right? So one night I'm shooting balls around and got to thing, ya know, pocket size shouldn't matter so much if yo hit center pocket, depending on angle to the pocket of course, so I tried an experiment, I put 15 of the centenials out in the middle away from the rails on all the diamond intersections and set up my phone for a descent static view of the table, and took cue ball in hand. So I guess the point was to see if I could see something I was doing that caused me to miss some of the shots, not naive enough to blame tight pockets on all of the misses. So anyway, I take off shooting, ball in hand, easiest shot I can reach on a 10 ft table pretty much and just shoot. Well SOB, I made all 15 balls, and on video,,,,,,,,,, I took the phone down and saved the video to my FB page, cause I was proud I guess,,,,,,,,, but I never video taped any of my play again. Honestly probably never ran more than 8 or 10 balls on that table again. Finally sold it and bought a 9 ft diamond.

Agreed. Why try to exceed perfection once attained?

 

[gregcantrall]

I have a few videos on YouTube. Looking through them for one to link reminds me of my first video experience. As a Cadet we had a 6 week boxing class as part of the P E. At the end we had a 3 round fight for our grade. It was video taped and then reviewed as we received a grade. The video review was uh humbling but educational. Same goes for my video reviews of my pool game.

Sometimes I use the video taping to simulate playing before an audience. Stage fright.

 

[AF pool guy]

I’m currently trying to get a BNR on camera every day as motivation to get on the table. Some days it’s only 15-20 minutes and sometimes it takes an hour or two.

I use a cheap phone and a webcam with free software.


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[iusedtoberich]

I've had a wall and/or ceiling mounted camera since I bought my table 10 years ago. I've changed the camera and recording setup about 5 times, and the position about 3 times.

 

[Boseph]

I use an older Go-Pro (Hero 5 Black) and and inexpensive clamp mount (DM me for details). This gives a lot of flexibility to mount the camera anywhere there's an edge to clamp onto. Even though the GP is older, it's 4K and you can do alot with the software. Always ask the room owner for permission before filming.

 

[Flakeandrun]

In public with my phone on a tripod, or using the venues ceiling mount when it's available (broke it off the ceiling at my local and they didn't fix it yet... my bad)
One place I go to has one camera each for 20+ tables connected to the 运动高手秀 APP - many venues connect to this one app... 运动高手秀 .... from here you can access any facility that is connected and rewatch or download.
Usually watching for practicing specific things... Sometimes for matches/memories/making dumb content

 

[straightline]

You know what? Chinese is really confusing. Which one is you?

 

[Flakeandrun]

You know what? Chinese is really confusing. Which one is you?

Not sure what your question means mate?

The Chinese characters are just the name of the APP... I had to switch to Chinese Appstore to get it, then switch back. It works for any billiards hall in China that has connected cameras. I use it often.

Would be cool if a similar APP existed in EU/US

 

[straightline]

Can't read any of it to check it out. Post a youtube instead?

 

[Flakeandrun]

Can't read any of it to check it out. Post a youtube instead?

It's not a video, it's the name of an APP.
I was just replying to the thread RE: if I film myself, how I do it and why
I can DM you some clips of myself playing if you really want though haha

 

[DeadStick]

What’s the best camera for permanently attaching to the middle of my table light for a top-down view? I’ve seen some Go-Pro footage that had barrel distortion so the table edges were curved… don’t want that.

 

[AF pool guy]

What’s the best camera for permanently attaching to the middle of my table light for a top-down view? I’ve seen some Go-Pro footage that had barrel distortion so the table edges were curved… don’t want that.

You can fix the fisheye effect in software but the real problem is the camera ends up too close to the table so balls near the end rails get distorted


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[justnum]

Put a mirror above the table and then film the reflection of the mirror. The mirror might need to curve a little bit.

I like having two cameras for different halves of the table. Putting the entire table in one frame has distortion unless the camera is a movie quality camera.