Highlight Video How-To Guides

Recruiting film only works if the person watching it can follow it, and most of the questions athletes ask come down to the same worry: how do I make sure the coach actually sees me? These guides answer that question in practical detail, one task at a time.

They fall into three groups. Effect guides explain the techniques themselves — circling a player, spot shadows, freeze-frames. Editor tutorials walk through the exact clicks in tools like CapCut and Premiere Pro. And the without-Hudl guides are for athletes whose teams don't subscribe to Hudl but who still need Hudl-style highlights.

Everything here is written for high-school athletes and their parents doing this themselves, often the night before an email goes out to a coach. No filmmaking background assumed.