Deep Dive: Frontal Progression

Advanced feature for visualizing frontal area changes throughout a fit session, showing position improvements for customer reporting.

Frontal Progression helps you show your customer how their frontal area has changed during the fit.

It shows a series of images, side by side, showing how the frontal area of each capture compares with the final capture.

How to invoke Frontal Progression

Before you invoke the frontal progression, you should check that the Final Position is checked on the capture that you consider to be the final position resulting from the fit. This Final Position will be used as the comparison target for the images in the frontal progression:

Velogic Studio interface showing Final Position checkbox selection for establishing frontal progression comparison baseline

In step 2, on the fit log at the bottom of the screen, there's a "DEEP DIVE" button on the left; click that and you'll see FRONTAL PROGRESSION as an option:

Deep Dive menu in Step 2 fit log with Frontal Progression option highlighted for accessing progression analysis

Frontal Progression window

The Frontal Progression has all of the captures in this fit session, arranged right-to-left along the screen.

Each capture is color-coded to show the parts of the rider that are different to the final capture:

• Red color means frontal area present in the current capture, but not in the final capture. You can think of this as "was worse" if thinking purely in terms of lower frontal area = better

• Green color means frontal area present in the final capture, but not in this one. You can think of this as "was better" in that capture.

Frontal Progression window showing multiple captures arranged chronologically with color-coded frontal area differences

Adjusting Frontal Progression entries

Often it's necessary to fine-tune what you see in the Frontal Progression window.

This can be done by clicking "EDIT" on the top-right of any individual progression entry, and then doing one of the following:

To exclude a capture from Frontal Progression

... click the EXCLUDE link at the top, and then click DONE. It will disappear from the Frontal Progression window.

To bring it back, click on the "Show excluded" option at the bottom of the screen, then click EDIT on the entry and click INCLUDE then DONE.

To find a better frame for that capture

Velogic Studio will automatically try to find the frame best representing right-foot-down, for comparison purposes; but if it hasn't done a good job, you can use the Next/Previous frame buttons to pick a better frame:

Frontal progression edit controls showing Next/Previous frame buttons for selecting optimal frame for comparison analysis

(note that these are only visible after you've clicked EDIT for that entry, and once you've found the best frame, you should click DONE at the top-right.)

To reposition the image

Ideally the camera doesn't move during the fit; but sometimes it may move, and the comparison can look invalid because the final capture is just in a different place to the current capture, giving large green areas and large red areas.

To overcome this, you can adjust the blue rectangle around the rider image, and the red and green areas will be recalculated automatically.

When finished, click DONE to lock in the change.

Frontal Progression on the report

In the reporting step (Step 3), the report will contain a "Frontal Progression" section if this option is selected on the left-hand side

Step 3 reporting interface with Frontal Progression option selected in left sidebar for including progression analysis in reports

It will include multiple pages if necessary to show all of the different captures, and their colorisation to show the differences between each and the final:

Generated report showing frontal progression across multiple captures with color-coded visualization of frontal area changes

Note that any captures which were "Excluded" in the Frontal Progression window will be excluded from the report too.