Break down Madden plays like a broadcast
John Madden made the telestrator famous. Now you can bring the same breakdowns to your Madden content — routes on the turf, coverage shells, QB reads and protection slides — with a Madden Camera Preset that's calibrated before you draw your first line.
Most Madden breakdown videos are built the hard way: pause the clip, screenshot it, draw arrows in an image editor or a video editor, then line the stills back up with the voiceover. It takes forever, and the drawings never quite sit on the field because Madden's camera shoots the field at an angle.
ProPlayVision's Madden Camera Preset fixes the angle problem up front. The 3D perspective engine is pre-matched to the gameplay camera, so a curl route, a Cover 3 deep third or a first-down line lands on the turf the way it would on a Sunday broadcast.
Then Script Mode takes care of the timing. Time-code each drawing to your voiceover and the breakdown plays itself — the route appears when you say "curl," the vision cone appears when you say "the read."
Bring in the Madden or College Football clip you want to break down and apply the Madden Camera Preset.
Use 84 football tools — routes, gap indicators, zone depth, QB vision cones and 1-2-3 read chains. Lock a spotlight to a player with assisted tracking and it follows him through the play.
Script Mode time-codes each drawing so it reveals right when you talk about it. Or keep your hands on the controller and call tools with voice commands.
Trim in the built-in Cut Room editor, crop to 9:16 with auto-pan for TikTok and Shorts, and build the thumbnail in the Thumbnail Creator — all without leaving the app. More in telestrator for YouTube.
Pre-calibrated perspective for the gameplay camera. Drawings sit on the turf from the first clip.
Paste team names and get a color-coded card showing which playbooks carry a play — perfect for "which teams have this?" videos.
Build a formation from scratch and drop it straight onto the field to diagram a concept before you show it on film.
Draw once in widescreen, then crop to vertical and the frame follows the play on its own.
336 commands and 963 ways to say them. Call a spotlight without letting go of the sticks.
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ProPlayVision was built by Paul "Kobra" Gleason — founder of MaddenGuides.com, credited author of the official EA Sports Madden NFL 09 and Madden NFL 10 strategy guides, and a football coach for more than 25 years. Every tool in the Chalkboard exists because he needed it for his own Madden breakdowns.
A pre-calibrated perspective setting matched to Madden's gameplay camera, so routes, zones and markers sit on the turf from your first clip instead of floating flat over the field.
Yes. Draw once in widescreen, crop to 9:16 and auto-pan follows the play, so you can post vertical breakdowns without a separate editor.
Yes. The drawing tools, tracking and perspective engine work on any football video, including college football video games and real game film. See the College Football telestrator.
No. ProPlayVision is an independent product and isn't affiliated with or endorsed by EA Sports or the NFL.
Madden NFL is a trademark of Electronic Arts Inc. ProPlayVision is not affiliated with Electronic Arts or the NFL.
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