Adding bookmarks to video

2022-03-15Last updated

If you see something worth noting, you can add a bookmark to the live or playback video that you are watching, so that you can review it later.

What you should know

If a camera is currently not recording (for example, it is set to record only when motion is detected), adding a bookmark forces the camera to begin recording. Also, if your camera is set to record when motion is detected (on motion mode), a five-minute video sequence is recorded when you add a bookmark.

Procedure

  1. On the View page, do one of the following:
    • Select a tile whose camera is streaming live video and click .
    • Select a tile whose camera is streaming live video, click to enter playback mode, and then click .
    View page in Stratocast™ showing a live playback timeline with the add bookmark icon highlighted.
  2. (Optional) In the Bookmark dialog box, type a short text in the Description field.
    The time stamp of the bookmark is fixed at the time that is indicated in the dialog box.

    Bookmark dialog box in Stratocast™ HTML5 video player, showing a date and time reference and including a description field.

    Tip: From the Investigate page you can search for bookmarks using the text in the bookmark Description field, enter a bookmark description that can be used later on to help refine the search results.
    1. (Optional) If you no longer require a bookmark, you can close the Add bookmark dialog by clicking .
  3. Click Add bookmark.
A bookmark is added to the video sequence. You can later search for the bookmark, and then watch and export video that was recorded at the time the bookmark was added.

Example

Watch this video to learn more. Click the Captions icon (CC) to turn on video captions in one of the available languages.

After you finish

Export bookmarked video.