UKI Video at Home Checklist for Success

10 Jul 2026Steve Schwarz

I’ve compiled a checklist to help ensure your UKI at Home Video is successful and your submission is approved.

Checklist for Success

Sign up for the UKI Video at Home Facebook group with the link in the UKI email when you receive it. You don’t want to wait for group approval at the last minute when you are ready to submit your video.
Before you build consider where you will put your camera to capture the entire course (especially contact areas). You want to build/arrange the course so the contacts/weaves and all jump bars are clearly visible in the video.

Use a measuring tape and wheel to position your obstacles to match the course map (My Course Building Guide).
Check the angle of the obstacles relative to one another as a check that they are rotated/located correctly (My Course Building Sight Lines Guide).

Double and triple check the course sequence against the course map before you walk/run.
Go to the Facebook group/post for your sequence and confirm that other people ran the sequence as you plan to run it.

Ensure your camera captures the entire course, including all contact areas, weave poles, and jump bars.
Ensure your dog won’t run outside the camera frame during their run of the course.
I set the zoom on my phone’s camera to ensure the entire course fits within the frame and start recording manually. I’ve been burned when I used my Apple Watch to start recording and recorded a photo or lost the zoom setting.
I record practice runs/sections to also ensure everything is captured correctly before recording the official run.
Ensure your dog is stationary and visible to the camera for at least 5 seconds before starting the run (you can trim the extra time from the beginning of the video).
Ensure your dog is stationary and visible to the camera at the end of the run for at least 5 seconds as well (you can trim the extra time from the end of the video).

Double check each of the items in the Filming the Course section before submitting your video.
I use my phone’s video editor (iMovie on iOS) to trim the extra time from the beginning and end of the video before submitting it. I count both the start and end times to ensure at least 5 seconds of visibility for my dog.
I use my AgilityNerd UKI Blender to title my video and create the submission text required by UKI. Here’s a video showing how to use it:

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