The Clip Basket

The Clip Basket, located in the lower right panel in the Secondary Window, is a temporary repository in Synergy for your video clips. You can add multiple clips from different cameras to the Clip Basket and attach them to new or existing incidents. The following is a screenshot of the Clip Basket.

You can select a segment of recorded or live video and save it as a new clip in the Clip Basket.

Setup: There is an optional configuration to show a collapsed view of incidents in the Clip Basket, displaying only the name of the camera, as opposed to including the start and date of each clip. See your Synectics system administrator for details.

Before adding video clips to the Clip Basket, you must decide whether to create a clip from just a single selected camera or from all displayed cameras.

If the Control All radio button is not selected, only video from the currently selected camera will be added as a single clip.

If the Control All radio button is selected, video from all currently displayed cameras will be added as multiple clips.

Specify the date and start time of the clip you want in the Time Selection group on the Video menu.

On the timeline slider, once you navigate to the intended starting point of the footage to be saved as a new clip, click the Cut into Video Clip tool (scissors icon).

Click the Add to Clip Basket tool.

You can also position your cursor on the timeline, click the Cut into Video Clip tool, drag the cursor left or right to delimit the required segment (its location and duration indicated by the grey bar with start and endpoint triangles above the green bar).

Cursor dragged right:

Cursor dragged left:

Click the Add to Clip Basket tool. The clip is added to the Clip Basket.

Likewise, to save a clip of live video, click the Cut into Video Clip tool. Once you have dragged the cursor left or right to delimit the required segment, click the Add to Clip Basket tool.

Once the clip is in the Clip Basket, you can click it in the tree to edit its date and time.

Click Ok.

To play a clip in the Clip Basket, double-click it in the tree and it will play in the video window.

To save a clip in the Clip Basket as a new incident, click the floppy disk icon in the clip basket icons. These icons may resize, depending on your layout, so that they are in two rows. They may also be hidden and accessible via an arrow/scrollbar in some cases.

Setup: There is optional configuration to enforce management approval of video clips to be added to an incident, see Including Management Approval for a Video Clip on page 1.

If your user group's Video Sensitivity setting is above the default value of Normal, the Select Level drop-down menu will only appear. For more details on a user group's Video Sensitivity setting, see Advanced Privacy Zones on page 1.

From the drop-down menu, select the sensitivity level of the video clips contained in this incident. This is determined by the nature of the footage; whether it is (potentially) criminal, private, otherwise distressing. Click OK.

If there are multiple lockers configured in your Synergy system, the following dialog box displays:

Select the appropriate locker in which to save this incident.

Click OK. The saving is tracked on the Events tab, which displays automatically in the right panel of the Primary Window.

If you have multiple clips in the Clip Basket, you can change their order of play in the finished incident by selecting the clip's folder and clicking the up and down arrow icons. The order of play starts with the clip at the top of the list, followed by the second in the list, and so on.

Note: If Control All is selected on the Video Control tab, any changes or deletions made will apply to all clips currently listed in the Clip Basket. A warning dialog box will display to help you avoid accidentally deleting all clips or setting all cameras' clips to the same timestamp/duration.

The film reel icon allows you to export video to a variety of file formats.

Select the file format to which to convert the selected video clips and click OK. MP4 is the default format for selection.

If you are exporting to MP4 format, select whether to transcode the video clips, thereby committing OSD to the file.

Note: If exporting to MP4 format, audio is automatically exported with video.

If you are exporting to AVI and you select to export uncompressed files, you will be warned that the file size is large and will take time to export.

Click Yes to proceed with exporting uncompressed files, or No to select another compression option.

Specify the directory to which to save the file.

A progress bar tracks the export process.

Note: When exporting video in AVI format Synergy will automatically downscale this to D1 format (720 x 486 resolution). WMV video will be converted to full HD.

The plus icon saves video to an existing incident.

The recycling bin icon clears the Clip Basket.

You can also add video footage in between and including bookmarks to the Clip Basket.

With the required segment selected, in the Manage Bookmarks menu, click Add Bookmark ().