Smarter Workflows, Faster Delivery: Introducing Focus Session Export in MatchTracker
One of the most powerful capabilities in MatchTracker is the ability to generate custom timeline XMLs, based on your bespoke analysis of third-party data. Exporting these XMLs into a timeline package saves hours of manual tagging per game.
Now, we’ve gone further. What if those fully tagged matches could be in your team’s hands within seconds, with almost zero manual effort? That’s exactly why we built Hub Focus Sessions.
From 35 Clicks to 3: A Smarter Workflow
While exporting a custom MatchTracker XML and creating a match package in another software can take around 35 clicks, with the new Focus Sessions workflow, it takes as little as 3 clicks, that’s a 90% reduction in time and effort. More analysis, less admin.
How It Works
- Set It Once, Use It Everywhere
Assign your defaults:
- Naming conventions – set how Event and Session names will appear for each game.
- Export template – choose which of your export templates will populate the timeline.
- Sharing Options – select users/groups to share with, and assign access permissions.
These preferences apply automatically to every session you export, ensuring consistency and saving valuable time. The settings can still be adjusted on a game-by-game basis, to suit your specific requirements.
- Choose Your Matches
Open any matches stored in your Hub remote folder, then push a single game, or an entire gameweek, to your Hub library:
- One match for immediate analysis
- Bulk export for archive updates
Your match sessions are available in your Hub library instantly, wherever your team works.
- Auto-Open in Focus
Once uploaded, sessions can be configured to open automatically in Focus:
- All video channels stream directly from the Hub
- Your custom timeline template populates immediately
Analysis begins the moment the session loads.
Why It Matters
This workflow combines MatchTracker’s advanced XML exports with the speed and connectivity of the Hub platform, helping you:
- Deliver faster: Custom-tagged sessions available in seconds
- Collaborate instantly: Shared access to bespoke sessions across your organisation.
- Simplify your workflow: No more manual timeline exports or session creation.
With pre-match prep often involving multiple matches being viewed by multiple stakeholders, this feature removes bottlenecks, to make customised content available immediately, and keep everyone aligned, on any device, anywhere.
Explore Hub Workflows in Focus 9.0
With sessions being shared to the Hub faster than ever, this Hub Focus Session feature works hand-in-hand with the enhanced Hub Workflows that are part of the latest Focus update.
With users having rapid access to the sessions they need, and an improved workflow that enables seamless collaboration across your organisation these latest releases across the Catapult Pro Video suite are designed to give analysts more time to do what matters most: deliver insights that win games.