FOOTBALL SCOUTING SOFTWARE QUESTIONS

Question: What exactly is meant by the term "football scouting"?

Answer: Scouting is a term that is used mostly by football coaches or to refer to what football coaches do to prepare to play an opponent. A "scout" is usually an assistant coach who, instead of attending his own team's game, travels to the site of the next week's opponent's game and "files a report" or hands in a videotape.

Question: What is the difference between Easy-Scout XP and Easy-Scout XP Plus?

Answer: Easy-Scout XP Plus is the latest version of our scouting and football game analysis software.  Easy-Scout XP Plus is designed to run on both Windows XP and Windows Vista, and unlike previous versions, can run in Limited User accounts. Previous versions require Administrator permissions which is increasingly difficult and often impossible in school environments.

Question: Can I move my scouting data between 2 or more computers so I can work on one at school and one at home?

Answer: Yes . Easy-Scout XP Plus and Professional have a built-in Export Game and Import Game utility to create (export) one or more files with one game per file, and then move the game(s) to the other computer where they can be imported.

Alternatively, the Backup and Restore function creates a copy of Game Data, Lists and Report Groups in the event that identical sets of data need to be maintained on two or more computers.

Question: Can I print reports to a file with Easy-Scout XP Plus?

Answer: Yes. In fact, you can print reports from any software to PDF with any number of free "PDF printer" utilities (our favorite is discussed in The Coaches Advisor Journal). If you have Windows Vista you can print to a format called XPS. These are superior to printing to HTML as they are perfect renditions of the printed page.

Question: Can I combine  3 games from the  same opponent for a composite printout.

Answer:  Absolutely. There is no limit to the number of games you can combine. Simply select the game(s) you want to merge into one report, select the reports you want to print and print them to the screen or printer.

Question: How does Easy-Scout XP Professional differ from Easy-Scout XP Plus?

Answer: Easy-Scout XP Professional is a video-enabled version of Easy-Scout XP Plus.  By video-enabled, we mean that in addition to being a powerful scouting application, it can "play" video and record information about it at the same time,  perform "random-access" playback of one or more plays from one or more games, either one at a time or in a group and produce cutups and highlights.

 For additional Frequently Asked Questions about Easy-Scout Football Coaching Software products for scouting and video editing, visit our Football Coaching Software web site at www.compusports.com. 

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