DTP - Digital Text Publication - Your Playbooks on the Kindle

Output Format for the Kindle to allow you to sell your playbooks on line at dtp.amazon.com.  Output your playbook to the DTP format (HTML), edit and upload to the site to sell your own playbooks.  Make them available on all Kindle supported devices.

Copy and Paste Functionality

Standard Copy and Paste functionality is now in Play Designer 2012.  You can copy a route and paste over an existing players routes or paste as a new player on the field/court.

Enhanced Hot Route Creation

Need a hot route drawn?  Simply right click now and add a hot route and edit the hot route properties similar to all edits made in the player properties.  You can also edit the regular and hot routes together.

Enhanced Moving Functionality

Now, you have the choice of moving your player and keeping the route fixed, or moving your player with the route.  

Entire Play Move Functionality

Using the selection tool, simply mark the play for moving and you can use your keyboard to adjust the entire play up, down, left or right.  Easy to readjust a play on the fly.

Background Override on PDF Playbook

In the past, you would have to use the background that you saved a play with - Now, you can force the entire playbook to have the same background - There is an override function on the PDF Playbook Tool.

PlayList in the PDF Playbook Add-On - PDF Save Playbook

Ah!  Yes.  Now, once you create a playbook, you can save a reference to that playbook.  If you keep the plays in the same files, (similar to an iTunes playlist), you can bring back that playbook again and re-create it with ease.

Enhanced Menus and Speed

We have slightly redesigned our menus to be a little more intelligent - Already drawn a route, you will see a re-draw option instead of all the options.  Also, the menus and overall speed of the system has been improved.

Creates Output that Works on Tablet Devices!

Check out our mobile play link on the left side of the page to understand better how to use the output on your tablet or mobile device.

Capture Your Animation in a Video File

Instead of needing the software to play the animation, now you can save the play as a movie file so you can watch your video on your local PC, e-mail to your team or post to You Tube or any video sharing site.

Learning Mode

If you are designing a play, you can turn on learning mode and select the players you want to highlight.  This feature (when turned on) will illuminate some players and leave the others dark.  You can teach one play in many different ways - Instead of creating 5 plays to explain one, use learning more to switch a spotlight on certain players.  This way you can use one play and teach it in a thousand different ways!

Video Add-On

Just like with our PDF and Web Playbook functionality, we are introducing a new Video Add-On.  This gives you the ability to capture many plays at once to video.  All of the processing happens in the background so you can continue to use the designer while the videos are being created - Then you can post them to you tube, e-mail or archive to a DVD/CD.

Sequence Navigator and Sequence Properties

Many of our users have asked for a way to type more specific sequence instructions vs. just one big description for the play.  Now, you can use our sequence navigator to add a title and description to each sequence.  Also, using the navigator, you will be able to flip through the play as well so you can visualize the play while typing your sequence titles/descriptions.

More Player Options

Each year we make sure that all of the requests are listed to - - In the 2011 version, you can 1) add ball fakes to your play, 2) lock your players during editing (to ensure that they don't get moved by accident), 3) turn on learning mode options, 4) position your label above the player, under the player, or directly on top of the player, and 5) you can even create your own text label to serve as the graphic

Redesigned Capture Functionality

When you are capturing a playbook, you can minimize the screen - all of the screen capture happens behind the scenes - No more cycling through plays and PDF, Wed and Video Playbooks are produced much faster

PDF Enhancements / Play Preview in the Add-On

The PDF Add-On now has an option that allows you to print play cards as well as playbooks - - this is a great feature for those of you that like to hold up pictures of the play in practice printed on all different types of paper.  The PDF Add-On creates the file more efficiently / quickly as well.  The PDF File also will have a full bookmark for each play to allow for ease of navigation when viewing the file as a PDF file.  Also you can see your play in a small window when choosing a play for the PDF add-on - This way there doesn't have to be any guessing in case you don't remember how the play looked.

Works with Windows 7 - and All 64 Bit Operating Systems!

For anybody with a brand new computer, the 2011 version of the designer is now compatible with all 64-bit and 32-bit operating system.  Use the designer series on Windows 7, Vista, XP and 2000.

Line Edit w/o ReDraw

The 2010 play designer now will allow you make those tiny tweaks to each line using the redraw functionality.  Simply right click on the player, click edit route, and you can move the route ever so slightly.  This represents a huge time save and for those coaches that are looking for precise route drawing, now that is available with our software.

Live Player Properties

We have greatly simplified our menus, by adding a small player properties screen which will allow you to very quickly make changes to name, labels, line styles, route drawings, zone marking and read/view angles with simple click vs. using a menu.  Simply click the active player, go to the player properties, and everything is at your disposal.  Also represents a huge time save in play creation.  

Robust Preferences

Many of your favorites preferences, are in a preferences menu, but we have added favorite directories for plays, printouts, and pdf playbooks.  This way, when you are creating a playbook or saving, no fumbling through directories to find where you want to save plays.

Curved Lines and Straight Lines

Many of you have wanted to have slightly curved lines vs. the straight lines that have been a fixture of the product for years.  We were always able to do it, but at a huge cost in drawing - We never wanted it to be difficult to draw lines - Now, we have finally created a simple toggle for you to curve you straight lines to give you the look that you want.

PDF Playbook Enhancements

Our most popular add on, the PDF Playbook has been tweaked yet again with new playbook formats (24 per page) to give you the best of breed playbook tool.  This year, we analyzed the playbook white space and made everything as large as possible to take the most advantage of the page when you are printing or sending this pdf playbooks onto others.

Shoot the Ball

Our basketball, hockey, lacrosse and soccer designers now have the ability to show the shooting of the ball as part of drawing the sequences.  Simply right click on the player and the option allows you to designate the ball recipient as the shooter.

Depth Charting

The 2009 play designer now allows you to create a formation with depth charting (or without).  The depth charting feature is extremely easy to use and is part of the core features of the Play Designer.  If you purchase the Roster Add-On, you will also be able (instead of typing the depth chart) to simply create your roster and utilize it to build the depth chart just by clicking on the players.  The depth charting features is available in every play you create and can be a part of any PDF Playbook or Web Playbook you create.  This has been a feature requested for over 12 months and we have delivered.  We think you will like the results.  

Roster Add-On

A simple add-on to store one or many rosters and save them.  The roster can be sorted or group to analysis, printed or exported to excel.  Best feature (above) is the integration with the depth charting so you can build depth charts with a simple click of the mouse.  

Active Player Highlight

The active player will now be highlighted in blue with a blue border.  This way, you will always now who is active!

Active Area Action

You now will be able to select a group of players on the field.  This group will allow you to align this group (vertically or horizontally) to the active player.  Instead of the old features where the entire play would align, we got it right with this features.  Also you will be able to copy the active players route to the players in the grouping.  You simply click the top left and bottom right of the range and the active area is set for alignment and route copy.

PDF Playbook Enhancements

The PDF Playbook has been tweaked to allow an 8 play per page playbook & a sequence layout that allows you to see the sequence breakup better.  More info on the pdf add-on page.  The add-on also now will be able to just output the names of the play to a sheet (without any images).  You can utilize this text to format your wristbands or provide a script of plays without the play images.

Player Instructions

You will be able to type in instructions for each player.  Better yet, these instructions will show up on the bottom of the screen when the active player is clicked.  The best part is that the play properties (if you make each instructions public) will be able to take all of the instructions into the play properties - Type each players responsibilities or instructions and it will get aggregated for you without any work.