Creating a highlight reel will make you stand out as a student-athlete in the college recruiting process. College coaches use college recruiting videos to analyze a student-athlete’s athletic abilities. If you have high-quality game footage but not a highlight video yet, this article helps you make a quality skills video using a Mac computer.

How to Build a Highlight Reel on a Mac

While there is video editing software out there that can help you build a highlight reel, many of them cost money. For Mac users, iMovie, a free application, helps get the job done. This was designed with the non-technical computer user in mind and is very straightforward and easy to use.   

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Having a lot of videos can sometimes be difficult in picking out your best plays. Click here to watch a recap of our webinar on the "do’s and don’ts" in ensuring your highlight reel is a quality video.

If you are looking to save time and have a professional, quality video made, we can absolutely help you with that. SportsRecruits has an in-house post-production team who specializes in professional highlight reels. Just email us at help@sportsrecruits.com and one of our Customer Success Specialists will be in touch.

Using video on Your Profile

If you would like to include footage that is already uploaded to your profile, first you must download that footage to your device. You can do this by navigating to your video library and clicking the blue gear icon in the bottom left corner of the video you would like to use.

Please note that event film enabled through the IWLCARecruits film package is not available for direct download. If you would like a highlight reel made with this footage, you can redeem the professional highlight reel credit included in your membership by following the steps outlined in this article.

Using the SportsRecruits Highlight Editor Tool

With your SportsRecruits membership, you have access to our Highlight Editor Tool. This tool allows student-athletes to easily build their own highlight reel or skills video right on their SportsRecruits profile. After building your highlight reel or skills video you can then publish the video for college coaches to watch. To learn more about this tool check out our help article, “How to Use the Highlight Reel Editor Tool”.

About SportsRecruits? 

SportsRecruits is a college recruiting website that was created for student-athletes and organizations to take control of their recruiting process. On SportsRecruits you are able to host all of your athletic information, academic information, and recruiting videos in one place for college coaches to see with just one click!

Are you looking to jumpstart your recruiting process? Get started with a free profile today!