Still Image Playback¶
A series of individually timestamped images (image sequences captured via Fast Digital Imaging) can be played back through NEXUS as if it were a video. NEXUS will play each frame at the correct time offset from the last. The maximum acceptable gap between images is 10 seconds.
To enable NEXUS to play back the images, you must ensure the following:
The images must be stored locally (on a computer hard drive or network drive) for self-hosted users, or are hosted in the cloud for hosted users.
Images must be named according to their timestamps (see Filename Formats for more information). If an image timestamp can’t be parsed, the date/time can also be extracted from the image EXIF data. If neither of these are present, it falls back to using the file creation time similar to parsing videos.
Depending on your environment, NEXUS can find image files as follows:
For self-hosted users, point NEXUS to the files by setting the Global Video Path under to the folder containing the images. All images in this folder and its subfolders will be included.
For hosted clients, NEXUS will stream files from the cloud location in the Global Video Path under . Only jpg format images are supported.
To view the image stream as a video, set an event within the time constraints of the series of images, and play the media on that event.
This feature was showcased in a video as part of What’s New 6.8.