Listed below are three different plans that our Coach's Video Assistant users have chosen over the last few years. Which plan is best for your football program?   Plan A - Macintosh Systems Only Plan B - Hybrid Systems (Macintosh and PC's) Plan C - PC Only   Plan A (Macintosh Systems Only) This system is comprised solely of Macintosh computers. Some high school football programs might use only one desktop Macintosh (iMac, eMac or G4 tower). Many football programs will use a desktop connected to their camera and an external Firewire drive as their main system with several of the coaches having their own laptop (iBook or Powerbook) computer to use at home, at school or in the coach's office. In order to share library data between coaches this plan requires the purchase of either inexpensive 3.5" USB floppy drives or USB Zip drives. Resources: (What Braintree Athletic Systems will offer you!) email support - Braintree Athletic Systems. support@btathletics.com  We are generally able to reply to a question within twelve hours. Quite often it is within four hours. Braintree Athletics will be happy to develop an on-going email relationship with both your program's "geek" and "analyst". We would love talking to your "geek" about digital and analog video. We love to talk about compression schemes and Quicktime. We are pretty good at using iMovie2/3 and love to share ideas about making highlight videos and DVD's. We would also enjoy having conversations with your "analyst". This is the coach that is trying to figure out how to be use the Coach's Video Assistant to win football games. We can share our ideas about finding your opponent's tendencies, about analyzing your own game plans and about how to use CVA in the pre-season and during practices.   Who would choose this plan? Programs will choose this method if they have had little access to computers and want to have everyone using the same system. Typically the Apple Macintosh line of computers require very little maintenance and study before and during implementation. Programs will choose this plan if they are limited in their knowledge about computers - and don't want to spend a lot more time learning about drivers, cables and config files. Programs will choose this plan if they are already Apple Macintosh users and have coaches with access to the necessary hardware. Programs will choose this plan if they want each and every coach to be able to produce quality video tape products at home, school or in the coaching office.   Hardware   Apple Hardware Information   Benefits: Every coach is able to create high quality video products. Coaches who are just now learning how to use a computer effectively will be pleased with the Macintosh computer's ease of use.   Issues: Most Macintosh computers that are capable of running CVA software do not have a 3.5" disk for data library exchange. Make sure at least one is purchased.      Return   Implementation Strategies ... Plan B (Macintosh Computers & PC-Compatible/Windows Operating System Computers)   Hybrid system. This football programtypically uses an Apple Macintosh computer to capture the game video from tape and then quickly burns it to CD. Afterwards, coaches with PC computers that run a Windows' operating system copy the CD onto their computer and begin entering play data. Ultimately all the data generated by the football staff is imported back into the Macintosh computer which is serving as a video editor. In order to share library data between coaches this plan requires the purchase of either inexpensive 3.5" floppy drives or Zip drives.   Resources (What Braintree Athletic Systems can offer you!) email support - Braintree Athletic Systems. support@btathletics.com  We are generally able to reply to a question within twelve hours. Quite often it is within four hours. Braintree Athletics will be happy to develop an on-going email relationship with both your program's "geek" and "analyst". We would love talking to your "geek" about digital and analog video. We love to talk about compression schemes and Quicktime. We are pretty good at using iMovie2/3 and love to share ideas about making highlight videos and DVD's. We would also enjoy having conversations with your "analyst". This is the coach that is trying to figure out how to be use the Coach's Video Assistant to win football games. We can share our ideas about finding your opponent's tendencies, about analyzing your own game plans and about how to use CVA in the pre-season and during practices.   Who would choose this plan? Football programs choose this plan when they want high quality video services (Macintosh) but already have an existing base of Window's PCs.   Hardware   Apple Hardware Information   Issues: Braintree Athletic Systems does not support the computer's operating system - whether it be Apple Macintosh or Microsoft Windows. Each program must have a dedicated individual to provide the needed support. This person would need to be ale to: Macintosh: Install programs from CD, setup a printer, burn video files to CD. This is not hard, and the computer and peripherals all come with excellent manuals. Windows: Install Coach's Video Assistant. Copy video from CD's to the CVA program folder. Navigate and save files to a variety of drives. Macintosh: Most Macintosh computers that are capable of running CVA software do not have a 3.5" disk for data library exchange. Make sure at least one is purchased.   Benefits: Football programs might be able to gain access to some computers that may not be used on a regular basis. Many schools have a few PC/Windows computers sitting around receiving minimal use. A PC computer with a relatively fast processor and an above average monitor and video card will generally be sufficient to run Coach's Video Assistant. Even football programs that are running all Macintosh computers in the coach's office or home will still take advantage of Coach's Video Assistant's cross-platform capability by sending CDs home with players and allowing them to install CVA on their home computer. Braintree Athletic Systems allows and encourages football programs to use our software to best meet their ongoing needs!   Return       Implementation Strategies ... Plan C (PC-Compatible/Windows Operating System computers only) Only computers running Microsoft Windows are used. This football program typically uses a computer running Windows XP as their video workstation. Game video is captured on this computer and subsequently burned to CD. Afterwards, coaches with PC computers that run a Windows' operating system copy the CD onto their computer and begin entering play data. Ultimately all the data generated by the football staff is imported back into the Windows PC. In order to share library data between coaches this plan requires the purchase of either inexpensive 3.5" floppy drives or Zip drives.   Resources: (What Braintree Athletic Systems can offer you!)   email support - Braintree Athletic Systems. support@btathletics.com  We are generally able to reply to a question within twelve hours. Quite often it is within four hours. Braintree Athletics will be happy to develop an on-going email relationship with both your program's "geek" and "analyst". We would love talking to your "geek" about digital and analog video. We love to talk about compression schemes and Quicktime. We are pretty good at using iMovie2/3 and love to share ideas about making highlight videos and DVD's. We would also enjoy having conversations with your "analyst". This is the coach that is trying to figure out how to be use the Coach's Video Assistant to win football games. We can share our ideas about finding your opponent's tendencies, about analyzing your own game plans and about how to use CVA in the pre-season and during practices.   Who would choose this plan? Football programs choose this plan when they already have an existing base of Window's PCs and cannot afford to purchase a Macintosh system.   Issues: Braintree Athletic Systems does not support the computer's operating system. Each football program must have a dedicated individual to provide the needed support. This person would need to be ale to:   Install Coach's Video Assistant. Capture video from a variety of video sources. Create CD's with captured video in Quicktime format. Copy video from CD's to the CVA program folders. Navigate and save files to a variety of drives. Connect and maintain print services. Capturing video is not easy on a computer running a Microsoft Windows operating system. It can be done, it is just not easy and Braintree Athletic Systems will not offer support in this area. There are too many different kinds of hardware, software, device drivers and video cards for our small company to support knowledgeably.    Return