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Link to Finisher Video

It is possible to link your results page or details list to a finisher video showing each participant crossing the line, this example links to YouTube however the same principals may be applied to other hosting sites or even static photo sites.

Videos can be shot on any standard video camera, GoPros are a popular choice due to their versatility. Once the race is finished, it's a good idea to crop the video down, you'll want a bit of time (around 15 seconds or more depending on your finish setup) before the first finisher crosses the line.

The link for each participant contains three parts; the base URL, the VideoCode (a unique identifier for each video) and the playback controls which determine at what point the video should start playing from, when it should end and whether it should automatically play once loaded. 

e.g. https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/hZCHKy0ESPU?start=0&end=14&autoplay=1
links to Video hZCHKy0ESPU, starts automatically playing at 0 seconds and will automatically stop at 14 seconds.
(Our knowledge base uses 'www.youtube-nocookie.com' by default, which you use is up to you as both work the same)

In order to form this URL we first need to calculate the time difference between each participant and the first person to cross the finish line (based purely on finish order / time of day). 

To do this it is useful to first call the Finish Time of Day into a unique result, either using [SplitName.TOD.Decimal] or you may need to use Tx+T0. 


 

We also need to Rank all participants according to this FinishITOD result, this is done with a specific rank which has no grouping and sorts according to our result or split. 

With these we can now calculate the gap time for each participant, there are a number of ways this can be calculated but using the GapTimeTop() Function is most simple. In this case we use GapTimeTop(1;4;0;"s") since the first participant should have a gap of 0 and the gap should be in seconds. 

We also want to know the time in the video at which the first finisher crosses the line, or when their video should end, this is simply entered as a value in seconds.

These values are used to calculate the end time for each participant, so the video stops once they have finished. 

We can now form the URL, this is done using 2 User-Defined fields so that the template can be copied across and have just the VideoCode updated rather than the full URL.

VideoLink: "https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/" & [VideoCode] & "?start=" & Val([VideoOffset]-14) & "&end=" & [VideoOffset] & "&autoplay=1"
Note that the start must never be negative otherwise the video will fail to play automatically. 
 

Now our VideoLink is calculated we can link this in an output list, this example has the video linked as part of the details window but it can be linked to any output or even under the Links in my.raceresult.com Certificates/Details

It's nice to use an image as a link rather than show the full URL, so in your output first insert an image, we use a png of the YouTube logo which has a transparent background. 

Bring up the additional field details by clicking the grey arrows to the right side and in the HTML Link as Expression field enter our User-Defined Field [VideoLink].

The image will now be a clickable link in the output list which will take you directly to the finisher video for the corresponding participant. 

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