Bookmarks – Sandbox_2025

Bookmarks

You can bookmark a specific moment in footage (in both live and recorded video) and use this bookmark for future review. Click the Operate Bookmarks button, for example, in the right corner of the Video Control tab, as shown in the following screenshot:

The Manage Bookmarks tab appears, with an image for all currently saved bookmarks available to your user group, as shown in the following screenshot:

The image includes the camera number, the date, the user that created it and the start time of the bookmarked clip.

Click a bookmark in the list to playback the bookmarked footage.

To add a bookmark to the Clip Basket, drag it onto the Clip Basket tab window.

As with clips, you can edit the date and time of the bookmark in the Clip Basket by clicking it.

To add a new bookmark, click Add Bookmark.

An empty image area with a timestamp appears at the top of the listed images.

Select the Current Cameras Only checkbox. A snapshot of the currently selected camera appears in the image window. This is the beginning of the new bookmarked clip. There is also the option for this to be selected as default. See your system administrator for details.

To set the length of the clip, click the Clip Duration button. The Set Clip Duration dialog appears.

Select a time period for the new clip. The Set Duration All Bookmarks dialog appears.

Click Yes or No.

If you want to send the bookmarked clip to other Synergy users, select the checkbox on the bookmark and click the Send Bookmark button. The Broadcast Selection dialog appears.

Enter your message in the Message Text field and select the checkboxes in the Select column for your user recipients. Alternatively, you can enter the e-mail address or addresses in the Email To field in the lower area of the dialog. Click Send.

To send the clip and message to a user group, select it in the Select User Group drop-down menu in the lower area of the dialog and click Send.

To send the clip and message to all users on your list, click Select All and click Send. If you change your mind before you click Send, click Deselect All.

Each selected recipient will receive an alert on their Events tab, announcing a new message.

This alert will remain displayed in the Events tab until selected by the recipient. When the received bookmark is selected, Synergy will start playing the video from the time of the bookmark.

If a recipient does not have the Events tab displayed in their Graphical User Interface (GUI) at the time of alert receipt, a notification will display in the bottom-left corner of their Primary Window.

Note: Footage bookmarked during live viewing may not be immediately available for playback. The following message may appear:

Click OK and select the bookmark at a later time.

If you want to delete all currently saved bookmarks, click Clear Bookmarks. The Delete All Bookmarks? dialog appears.

Click Yes if you want to delete all bookmarks or No if you changed your mind.

If you want to delete just one bookmark, select the checkbox on the bookmark and click Clear Bookmarks.

Note: This option can also be disabled. See your system administrator for details.

If you have shared bookmarks, click Publish to select which bookmarks should be copied to the shared path.

Shared bookmarks are set up by going to Setup -> System Setup -> Run System Properties Wizard -> Configuring GUI Settings.

Note: Bookmarks in video footage from beyond the video retention period are automatically removed from the Manage Bookmarks menu.

When you are finished managing bookmarks, click Close.

Time Marks

This is a configurable option in Bookmarks that allows you to mark a point in the footage. You can use the time mark to go to multiple other camera streams and view other camera footage of the same point in time. This can be useful if you want to see an incident from various camera angles.

To enable this feature, you will need to set the following client configuration setting to true:

enableTimeMarks

Once configured, select Bookmarks from Customize View and drag it into your view. When you do this, you will see the Bookmarks tab and a second tab labeled Time Marks.

Here you can select Add Mark to add a comment at a specific point in time. This will apply to whichever camera is showing at the time and will then display in the Video view on the timeline. You will see a white box and if you hover over it, the comment that you entered in the Time Marks tab will display on the timeline directly.

Once you log out, this comment will then be erased.

If you open a layout with multiple screens, such as a quad view, you can select Control All and click on a time mark. It will then show you the footage from that point in time from all of the selected cameras.

Time marks can also be set up to be user-specific rather than specific to a machine, meaning that the time marks set by a specific user will be visible if the user were to log on to a different client and will no longer be erased.

To use this feature, you will need to use shared bookmarks and set the following setting to true: timeMarksPerUser

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