Enhancement Showcase
The full menu of clip enhancements we can apply, each shown on its strongest Sunday 7 play. Best version of each enhancement, pulled from real Sunday 7 plays. Once this baseline is signed off, the same set runs against the incoming Sunday footage.
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Every enhancement below is only as good as the moment it lands on. We detect the ball and players (YOLO11), track them frame-to-frame and mask them (SAM3), then temporally segment the play to locate its key action — the gather, the release, the block, the finish. The freeze, the slow-mo, the zoom, the crop path: each is anchored to that window, not guessed.
Blake · Transition pull-up · ball-track + key-action timeline · Sunday 7 · May 3
The three CV streams
Every clip runs through all three — shown here on live game possessions, each overlay on its own.
Ball tracking
The ball located and tracked every frame (Roboflow detector).
Player detection · YOLO11
Every player boxed and pose-tracked, frame to frame.
Player masks · SAM3
Pixel-accurate silhouettes that power isolation and spotlight.
Spatial reframing — ball-tracked crop to vertical/portrait, and a punch-in zoom on the release. Move the frame to the action.
Brandin · Full-court fast break · Sunday 7 · May 3
Crop follows the ball coast-to-coast; the frame is the action band (10% off the top, 20% off the bottom).
Ball-tracked crop that reframes wide footage to a 4:5 portrait feed, trimming the dead ceiling and floor.
Use it for: The default format — fills better than 9:16 for this footage and keeps more side context.
Also renders 9:16, 1:1, and 16:9 — with an advisory when a tighter crop would lose the passer or receiver.
Josh · Catch-and-shoot three off a skip · Sunday 7 · May 3
Wide on the skip pass, then ramps in to the catch-and-release window (53–71%), peaking at the shot.
Eased push-in toward the action so the release reads on a small screen.
Use it for: Catch-and-shoot and spot-up looks where the crop is already wide enough.
Bend time around the key action — speed-ramp the build-up, slow the decisive moment, freeze it, or replay it.
Brandin · Full-court fast break · Sunday 7 · May 3
2× through the advance, then 0.5× into the finish at the rim.
Speeds through the build-up, then drops into slow motion for the finish.
Use it for: Long developing plays — coast-to-coast, fast breaks, transition.
Soto · Spin-and-scoop drive finish · Sunday 7 · May 3
0.5× across the spin → scoop — the ball-trajectory window (41–64%), not after it.
Slows only the decisive window, leaving the rest at normal speed.
Use it for: Skilled finishes and shots where the detail is in one beat.
Blake · Coast-to-coast transition pull-up · Sunday 7 · May 3
Holds at the release — the top of the pull-up (~39% in), detected from the ball's arc, not 72%.
Holds on the strongest frame with a short action callout, then resumes.
Use it for: Pull-ups, blocks, seals — anywhere one frame tells the story.
Josh · Catch-and-shoot three off a zoom handoff · Sunday 7 · May 3
Slow-mo across the gather→release window at full frame, then an eased push-in (1.3×) holding on the release.
Plays the key action in slow motion, then punches in with a zoom on the release.
Use it for: Skill moments worth a second beat — catch-and-shoot, pull-ups, finishes — slow it down, then drive the eye to the release.
Team-requested in #hangtime-video — sequences the existing key-action slow-mo + punch-in (vs. doing both at once).
Chase · Transition block · Sunday 7 · May 3
Replays the block at 0.5× right after it happens.
Plays the key action once live, then replays it in slow motion.
Use it for: Blocks, skip passes, surprising finishes that reward a second look.
Isolate one player — SAM3 silhouette reveals, and a floor-circle spotlight that follows the focus player.
Ball-handler · Drive & pull-up · Sunday 7 · Apr 26
Silhouette tracks the ball-handler down the floor, then reveals as they rise to score.
A SAM3 silhouette hides the ball-handler through the play, then drops to reveal them on the finish.
Use it for: Engagement plays — make the group guess before the payoff.
⚠ Placeholder footage — this is the warm-up segment (the only Sunday-7 clip with SAM3 masks), not real game action. Needs a good real-action clip + SAM3 on it. CE plan: HT-361 (depends on HT-353).
Near-side player · Live possession · Sunday 7 · Apr 26
The ring stays the same size and locked to the floor under the player — it doesn't grow or rise when they move or jump (median-smoothed feet).
A constant-size HangTime-blue ring laid flat on the floor follows the near-side player under a soft spotlight.
Use it for: Isolate the focus player — follow the play, defensive rotations, off-ball cuts.
Floor-ring geometry is locked (constant size, floor-locked). Clip is the warm-up segment — the only one with YOLO tracks; a good real-action clip is pending HT-361.
Amplify the action with drawn/animated effects composited onto the clip — energy trails, dust puffs, contact bursts, speed lines.
Blake · Catch-and-shoot three off the handoff · Sunday 7 · May 3
The ball's trajectory is isolated from the other on-court ball, smoothed, and drawn as a building arc to the rim.
A glowing broadcast-style arc traces the ball's flight from the shooter to the rim.
Use it for: Made shots worth admiring — deep threes, high-arc jumpers. The TV shot-tracer look.
Trajectory isolated via dominant-chain filtering (drops the other interleaved game's ball) — the kernel of the HT-363 fix.
Soto · Spin-and-scoop drive · Sunday 7 · May 3
Trail + speed lines ride the ball through the drive; the burst sprite fires on the detected key action.
Motion-FX composited onto the action — a comet trail + speed lines on the drive, and a comic impact burst on the key action.
Use it for: Highlight-reel and personality moments: dunks, blocks, crossovers, big shots.
Burst is a HangTime comic sprite from the Gemini effect master sheet; trail + speed-lines are procedural. More sprites (puffs / swooshes / flame) available to layer in.
Chase · Transition block · Sunday 7 · May 3
Burst lands on the ball at the block; the trail follows the deflection.
The same motion-FX on a different play — the comic impact burst fires on the block, with the trail riding the deflected ball.
Use it for: Defensive highlights: blocks, deflections, steals.
Wrap a highlight in a finished, social-native package — an AI-presenter breakdown with narration and a name sticker.
Blake · Transition pull-up · narrated + label sticker · Sunday 7 · May 3
Narration calls the play while the name sticker stays pinned through the action.
A finished, narrated studio cut with a persistent player-name label sticker pinned over the highlight.
Use it for: The most packaged format — a ready-to-post segment with voiceover and on-screen labeling.
Has audio — unmute the player to hear the narration.
Pair a Sunday 7 play with the moment it rhymes with — a beat-aligned split-screen so both releases land on the same frame.
Josh vs Blake · Catch-and-shoot threes, beat-aligned · Sunday 7 · May 3
Key-action detection on both clips aligns the release frames; a beat-flash marks the shared moment.
Two plays side by side, time-aligned so the same beat — the release or finish — hits at the same instant on both halves.
Use it for: Connect-to-the-top: a Sunday 7 move next to the NBA moment it mirrors, or two Sunday 7 players doing the same thing.
Compositor is content-agnostic (HT-364). NBA pairing pending rights/sourcing — shown here Sunday-7 vs Sunday-7.
One effect, many plays
Proof the pipeline scales: the same freeze — detect the ball, find the release from its arc, hold it — applied to four different Sunday 7 shots with no per-clip hand-tuning. We pick an engagement-ranked clip and the effect lands on the release.
Blake
Transition pull-up
Josh
Catch-and-shoot three
Blake
Catch-and-shoot off the throwback
Blake
Catch-and-shoot off the handoff
Every enhancement can render in any of these aspect ratios. The pipeline flags when a tighter crop would lose the passer, receiver, or ball flight.
Default — fills well, keeps side context, trims dead space top/bottom
Tightest single-player action and social stories
Passer + receiver together, off-ball context
Full-court action and wide spacing
This is a working baseline — we want your read on each enhancement before we point the pipeline at the next Sunday game. Every card is linkable: click its title to put that effect's link in your address bar, then drop it in your comment so feedback maps to the exact effect.
Does the effect hit the key action — freeze on the release, slow-mo on the move — not a beat early or late?
Real game action (not warm-up / dead time)? Marquee enough to feature?
Framing, overlay legibility, no artifacts or playback issues?
Would you actually send this to the group? If so — an awe, argue, or appreciate post?
Is this the best enhancement for this play, or would another land better?
This is the baseline. The same detect → track → segment → anchor pipeline runs on the incoming Sunday game: we find each play's key action, then apply whichever of these enhancements fit the moment. Sign-off here locks the menu we point at the new footage.