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I am hoping the admins will allow this topic to live for a while.  I am in the fairly early process of starting up a baseball related business,  I am looking for input from folks as to:

 

-Do you think this would be a viable business venture?

 

-Do you think the pricing model would work?

 

In general we would take raw video shot by HS athletes and edit the video down into something useable as a recruiting video.  We would provide instructions for shooting the video.  The athlete would be responsible for shooting the raw video.  They would upload it to our servers.  We would then edit about an hours worth of footage down to 3 to 5 minutes in a format that is compatible with college recruiting.  The athlete would retain the rights to the video.  We would start with baseball and then branch out into other sports over time.

 

As far as pricing, here is what I am thinking.  $80 for a video.  $20 due upon start of the project.  This will give the athlete access to our proprietary information on how to shoot position specific video.  Things like camera placement, what skills to shoot, etc.  $30 upon loading the video up to our servers.  $30 upon video completion.  I know the pricing model is a little complicated but part of the business model would be providing the user with access to proprietary information on how to properly shoot the video.  In addition we would offer add on services such as uploading to you tube or hosting the video ourselves.  

 

You can check out the work in progress website here... http://buildmysportsvideo.weebly.com.  Right now we are not live and won't be until the summer sometime.  We need to take care of some legal work as well as run financial numbers to make sure its a viable business.  There are lots of place holders in place on the website so if you see things such as video that does not look right (yep thats my sons basketball team on ESPN Top 10) or pricing that is way off please ignore it as its just there to test links and such.

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Pricing seems reasonable.....people spend a lot more than $80 on things that will do them absolutely no good.  We shot my son's video....and I edited it myself.  Nothing spectacular...no words....no music, but it got the job done, as several coaches commented on it and contacted him to get more info.  I would gladly have paid $80 to have someone else do it.....as trying to figure out how to run the editing software was probably the worst 3 hours of my life.......and I've got plenty of photoshop and photo editing experience.  Not sure how anyone with no photo editing experience of any kind would do it on their own.  Good luck!!

joes87,

 

Sounds like a good idea to me.  Not sure about publicizing it until you are ready.  Good ideas usually need to be discussed with a non disclosure agreement, so as to somewhat  protect your work and planning.

 

I did look at the site and it looks nice. Maybe you just threw the numbers in there, but with only one camera it would require a pitcher to throw 180 pitches.  Obviously that is way too many.  I think you would get more than enough video with 30-45 pitches.  My favorite spot to video a pitcher is from behind the CF fence.

 

One more thought... Or just a prediction... Pitching video for scouting and recruiting purposes will be dominated by a new product called RaVid.  It is a combination Radar gun and camera, so it shows the pitcher on video with velocity imbedded on every pitch. It is something we plan on using a lot this year.  It allows the viewer to watch a pitcher and get an accurate velocity reading on each pitch.  That is hard to beat for a scout or recruiter.

 

Once again, you have a good idea, best of luck.

 

 

Thanks for the feedback. 

 

Buckeye -

Video editing is not a problem for me.  I've been doing it for years.  I am not an expert and could not edit together a big budget picture, but have no problems adding some title screens, and chopping up video.  The other services I have seen come onsite and shoot the video but they run about $700 to film and edit the video.  I figured $80 is reasonable but need to make sure there is a profit in that number.

 

PGStaff-

I hear on on the NDA issue.  I thought long and hard before putting this out there.  I'm trying to find a way to gauge interest from a cross section of the HS baseball population.  I figured to some extant this is a limited section of the population and hopefully my idea does not spread too far.  

 

Interesting on the camera's.  I would guess in time that this may become standard and I would have to find a way to deal with that.  I already have a few ideas on how.  

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