Video
The Video pane allows the playback of centrally stored videos, which are linked via date-time stamp from the currently selected event.
Events with associated video are identified with a small play icon on the Event Listing tab. When you select an event on the Event Listing or Finding Listing tab, all videos associated with the relevant event are shown on the Video pane:
Tip
The Video pane can be undocked, resized and placed outside of the NEXUS application, on another monitor for example.
If you are experiencing degradation of video quality due to frame dropouts caused by insufficient bandwidth, then disable one or more channels.
Configuration
You can tell NEXUS IC where to look for videos by setting the Global Video Path and/or Temporary Video Path in your database properties settings (see Properties).
You can then parse the video files (see Parse Video) to store their properties in the database. You can further manage video files under (see Video…).
For more information, see Managing Videos.
Video Toolbar
You can use the following toolbar menu options on the Video pane to manage videos:
Toolbar Option
Description
Starts playback at the current point in time. The video can be paused by pressing this button again.
Plays the video for the selected event starting at that event’s Start Clock time.
Plays the video for the selected event starting at that event’s End Clock time.
When this button is toggled OFF, you will be required to click on one of the Play toolbar buttons to start video playback. When toggled ON, then video playback will automatically start when you select an event on the Event Listing tab.
Steps back in the video by the selected time frame. You can choose the time frame from 1 second, 5 seconds, 10 seconds, 30 seconds, 1 minute or 5 minutes from the drop-down menu.
Rewinds the video with preview using the selected speed. Choose the required speed from the drop-down menu. Depending on how the video has been encoded, some speeds may not be available. When the required position is reached, the video can be played by pressing the Play button. You can also set fast forward/rewind speed by putting the mouse cursor over the video pane and using the mouse wheel.
Fast forwards the video with preview using the selected speed. Choose the required speed from the drop-down menu. Depending on how the video has been encoded, some speeds may not be available. When the required position is reached, the video can be played by pressing the Play button. You can also set fast forward/rewind speed by putting the mouse cursor over the video pane and using the mouse wheel.
Steps forward in the video by the selected time frame. Choose the required time frame (for example, 1 second, 5 seconds, 10 seconds, 30 seconds, 1 minute or 5 minutes) from the drop-down menu.
Steps backward in the video by one frame. Depending on how the video has been encoded, this button may step the video back to the previous key frame, which might be several seconds back.
Steps forward in the video by one frame.
Captures an image from each of the playing video channels and attaches them to the currently selected event as a multimedia item. Multimedia can be viewed from the Multimedia pane (see Multimedia). Within the Video Frames dialog, you can select, unselect and crop images. To crop, click the Crop button or Ctrl-X, then click and drag a rectangle on the image. To complete the crop, click the
button or Crop To Selection. If you have selected Keep Original before cropping, the cropped image will be saved as a new image and the original image will be kept too.
If multiple channels of video exist for a selected event, they will be listed in this drop-down menu. For each channel, you may enable or disable the video and/or audio. To enable or disable the audio or video, select or unselect the video or audio from the drop-down menu. You can enable or disable each channel’s audio by clicking the speaker icon next to the audio level meter. Also, you can disable a video channel quickly using the X in the top right corner of each playing video.
Offsets the playback of an individual video channel with the selected number of seconds (+/-). This is useful in case you have multiple video channels and their playback is out of sync. Use the drop-down menu to select the required number of seconds with which you want to offset the playback of a given video channel. This setting is then automatically saved for the selected video channel until you change it.
This option will automatically size and position the channels (minimising unused space) based on the size and proportions of the video pane.
The channels will be displayed horizontally by selecting this option.
The channels will be displayed vertically by selecting this option.
The channels will be displayed in a square shape by selecting this option.
This option takes you to the Inspection tab of the menu, where you can make settings for capturing images during video inspections. For more information, see Options.
If you select the Maintain Playback Rate option, the current video playback speed will be maintained when a new video loads.
If you select the Show Thumbnails option, hovering over the video trackbar will show a thumbnail grab of the video at that position.
The statistics for each video will be displayed on the top left side of the video if you select the Show Statistics option.
This option determines what is shown on the thumbnail when hovering over the trackbar. When selected, the actual date and time of the video will be shown, when unselected, the current video position will be shown (in minutes).
If you select the Enable Time Sync option, all the channels will be in sync (at the same date/time in the video) when playing multiple channels.
Copies the paths of the displayed video files to the clipboard. These paths show where the video files are stored. If you do not enable a channel on the pane, its video path will not be copied.
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