Mark a certain minute of a camera? Flag/ trigger?!

[daru84]

Hi everybody,
I try to mark a certain minute of a camera, maybe even save a period of a clip and protect it in BI but so far I couldn't find a good solution.

I can flag a certain clip, but my clips are 8h long (btw whats a good setting here?). And I can trigger a certain camera, but only live! Not in the clip.

I am sure there must be a better solution with this powerful tool!

Thanks ind advance!

 

[fenderman]

Hi everybody,
I try to mark a certain minute of a camera, maybe even save a period of a clip and protect it in BI but so far I couldn't find a good solution.

I can flag a certain clip, but my clips are 8h long (btw whats a good setting here?). And I can trigger a certain camera, but only live! Not in the clip.

I am sure there must be a better solution with this powerful tool!

Thanks ind advance!

You either have to export the clip or protect the entire clip.

 

[looney2ns]

You can easily export the section of the clip you need, see the help file.
Takes 2 minutes to export.

 

[daru84]

You can easily export the section of the clip you need, see the help file.
Takes 2 minutes to export.

Thanks for your help! That's exactly what I ve searched for:

Editing Clips

The clip viewer allows you to edit clips by moving the two markers you see below the position slider--there's a green or "start" point and a red or "stop" point.

To make your edit permanent, click the Convert/Export button that's to the right of the black box or right-click the viewer window and click Convert/Export to remove the video that's both before the start point and after the stop point. You may choose to replace the current video or to create a new one. If you choose to replace, the video is automatically re-opened in the viewer.

 

[beepsilver]

If you want to keep the original, don't select "replace." Your cut piece of video will replace the super long video. Presumably you want to export just a smallish clip, so select "create a new one." On those long videos it can be challenging to get those green and red triangle markers exactly where you want them.

 

[beepsilver]

Update: You can use the right-click menu in the viewer to set these points to the current video position, so you can use step/play/pause etc to adjust position. You may then assign these menu options to keyboard shortcuts on Options/Keyboard.

 

[jaydeel]

Just FYI... I previously emailed a similar question to Ken... Here's the exchange

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From: Blue Iris Support <support@blueirissoftware.com>
Sent: Tuesday, January 23, 2018 12:35 AM
Subject: Re: after-the-fact trigger?

Very interesting idea! And I would probably add this today if I could ... but the way the database is created, events occur in chronological order, I have no way now to "insert" something in the middle. Maybe with a database repair it could be brought in, but that would be a hassle each time I would imagine. This is something for the long-term "drawing board"...

Take care

Ken

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On Thu, Jan 18, 2018 at 4:42 PM, I wrote

Hi Ken,

Here's a scenario..
* I'm viewing an old clip and I see an event that was not triggered when it occurred, therefore there is no alert in the database.
* I would now like to "save" a pointer to this event -- that is, create a manual alert entry for it, and flag/protect it for permanent retention.
* Is this possible?

I suppose this might be the equivalent of issuing an after-the-fact 'Trigger Now' command during clip playback.

Is this possible now, or might it be a future feature?

(I am envisioning a new command on the clip playback right-click context menu.)

PS - I do understand that I can export a video segment of the event... but I'd really prefer to have a "pointer" to the event in BI's database.