Bulk Upload Lock Footage – Sandbox_2025

Locking Bulk Footage

It may be necessary to temporarily retain a large piece of footage beyond its normal decimation period, for example if it is still being worked on beyond the normal retention date.

The Locking Bulk Footage option allows for the creation of a specified range of reusable incident IDs, as well as a special lock footage incident locker. You can create an incident in this reserved range and use it later to create further incidents. The original incident remains intact and present until manually deleted.

Setup: Your Synergy must be configured to use the Locking Bulk Footage option.
To do this, go to Setup-> System Setup->Press for Advanced Configuration->System Properties->Central Configuration Settings.
Under the Misc tab, set allowVideoFromOtherIncidentsIntoNewIncident to "true".

Under the Incidents tab, set lockFootageincidentIdEnd, lockFootageincidentIdStart, and lockFootageincidentId.

To create the incident that can later be edited and saved, perform a Bulk Upload. For further details, see Upload Manually on page 1.

Add a description, cameras and time durations as shown in the Upload Manually section, and click Lock Footage.

The specified lock footage incident locker and range of IDs are checked.

If an ID is available within the reserved range, the footage is added to the temporary lock footage incident locker instead of your normal incident locker.

If no ID is available, no save is made and the following message displays.

To delete one or more incidents in their entirety, it is not enough to delete them from the lock footage incident locker.

Go to System Data->Incidents Data and delete the rows relating to the incident.

Once you have successfully added the footage to the temporary lock footage incident locker, you can select parts of the clip to add to a different incident.

Open the lock footage incident locker. Select incident footage to play. The clip basket appears showing details of the current incident. You can use the Show Clip basket button (highlighted in red in the image below) to return to the usual clip basket.

If you cut and save a clip from here, the footage is selected from the lock footage incident locker and copied to the new incident using an incremented global incident ID. The locked incident remains unchanged and intact until manually deleted.

Note: Be aware that the footage could now be out of retention period on the PSN.

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