Tag Libraries define the vocabulary you use to mark and organize clips. Set one up once and it works across every Clip Project, the clip editor, Clip Search, and Quick Clipping.
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Your language, not ours
Scout Elite ships with a built-in hockey tag library (Shot on Goal, Turnover, Faceoff, and so on). It works out of the box and is a good starting point.
But most coaching staffs already have their own language. If your bench says “BOT” for a breakout turnover and “DZC” for defensive zone coverage, you can build a library around exactly those terms. Every tag has:
- Name, the full term (“Breakout Turnover”)
- Short code (optional), the acronym your staff actually says (“BOT”). When a tag has a code, buttons and chips show the code and the full name appears on hover.
- Section (optional), a group heading that organizes related tags (“55-44 Offense”, “Special Teams Defense”)
Creating a library
- Go to Account in the sidebar and find the Tag Libraries section
- Click New Library and name it (for example, “Dragons System Language”)
- Select the new library to open its tag editor
Adding and editing tags
The editor shows your tags as pills, grouped by section.
- Add a tag with the add button in any section (or the quick add for ungrouped tags)
- Click a pill to edit it: name, short code, capture window, section, or delete
- Drag pills to reorder them or move them between sections
- Edits save automatically when you close the pill editor
Importing from a spreadsheet
Already have your system language in Excel or Google Sheets? Don’t retype it.
- In your spreadsheet, arrange three columns in this order: code, name, section (no header row)
- Select the cells and copy
- In your library, click Paste Import and paste
- Review the preview and click Import
Rows with only one value become a tag name with no code. Sections are created automatically from the third column.
Choosing which libraries are active
The Enabled toggles control which libraries appear in your tag pickers. You can enable more than one at a time (for example, your own system language plus the built-in library) and reorder them; pickers list tags in that order, with each library and section as its own heading.
Default capture windows
Each library can set a default capture window for Quick Clipping: how many seconds before and after the moment you mark get captured into the clip.
- Set the library default in the Quick Clip capture window row above the tag editor
- Override it per tag in the pill editor (a faceoff tag might need 3 seconds back, a breakout tag 15)
- Leave either blank to inherit: a tag falls back to its library, and the library falls back to the app default (10 back, 5 forward)
Managing libraries
- Duplicate copies a library with all its tags, sections, and capture windows (handy for building next season’s language from this season’s)
- Rename and Delete work from the library list; a tag that’s already on clips can’t be deleted until it’s removed from them
- Share sends a library to teammates (requires Pro)
- The built-in Scout Elite library is read-only; duplicate it if you want to customize it
Tips
- Start from your whiteboard. The tags that work best are the terms your team already uses.
- Codes make keyboard marking fast. In Quick Clipping you can type a code (like “BOT”) to mark a moment without touching the mouse.
- Use sections for game phases. Offense, defense, special teams. Sections also color-code the Quick Clip buttons so they read at a glance.