ABSTRACT
Chapter 5 covers the use of cinematography and video analysis in the study of sports movements, including the equipment and methods used, and the importance of cinematography and video in the qualitative and quantitative analysis of sports techniques. The necessary features of cine and video equipment for recording movements in sport are considered as well as the advantages and limitations of two-and three-dimensional recording of sports movements. The possible sources of error in recorded movement data are outlined and experimental procedures are described that will minimize recorded error in two-and three-dimensional movements. The need for, and the ways of performing, smoothing and filtering of kinematic data are covered, along with the requirement for accurate body segment inertia parameter data and how these can be obtained. Finally, a convention for the specification of three-dimensional segment orientations and some aspects of error analysis are introduced.
