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The document provides a step-by-step guide for conducting video analysis of motion using Logger Pro. It outlines the process of importing a video, setting a scale, and tracking the motion through various frames. Additionally, it suggests analyzing the resulting graphs to identify constants in the motion data.

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The document provides a step-by-step guide for conducting video analysis of motion using Logger Pro. It outlines the process of importing a video, setting a scale, and tracking the motion through various frames. Additionally, it suggests analyzing the resulting graphs to identify constants in the motion data.

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Video Analysis of Motion with Logger Pro

You must first make a movie of the motion you are to study, perhaps a car moving on a track. You can make the
movie on your iPhone (Logger Pro is kind of snarky with android videos) or with nearly any digital camera.

1) Import the movie from the camera to your computer or email the movie to yourself from your
iPhone or computer.
2) Start Logger Pro. Go to Menu and Insert Movie (this can be from a flash drive OR if
you emailed it to yourself - save the file to your computer and then insert it)
Resize the movie to make it larger if you like. You don't need to see the graph or data table while
you're taking data from the movie.

3) Click on the “video analysis” icon, , to open the video analysis drawer (this is in the bottom
right corner of the video).

4) Click on the “set scale” icon, , Click and drag across the meter stick in the video or some
other known object in the movie frame, and enter the appropriate distance.
5) Estimate the possible error in the scale. Could your clicking be off by a centimeter, or what? If
you think the error is too large, re-do the scale.
6) Set the movie to first frame of interest.

7) Click on the “add point” icon, . Decide to use the center or edge or whatever of the object.
Whatever you choose – you MUST click the same thing in EACH frame.
8) Then set cross-hairs on your object and click. The movie should advance one frame.
9) Then set cross-hairs on the new position of your point and click. The movie should advance one
more frame.
10) Continue until the end of the motion.
11) You can now make the movie smaller and do MENU Page Auto Arrange to put the windows
in order.

12) You may want to autoscale your graph. Or you can scale the graph manually by clicking on
the top and bottom of the y-axis and entering appropriate values.
13) If you want to play the movie back and see the dots form, go to the MENU bar and choose
Analyze Replay.
14) If you want to move through the dots and see the movie move to that point, go to the MENU bar
and choose Analyze Examine.

When looking at the graphs, ask yourself: What remains constant? Perhaps the value is constant, or the slope, or
function of these, etc.

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