What VMSes Copy Relevant Footage From Multiple Scenes / Times To An Export?

Avigilon ACC 5 has this option now when you export video. You can select different times from different cameras and combine them in one exported clip.

Tom, good question. I think the solution is bookmarking the relevant clips and then putting those bookmarks into a case and then exporting that case. Even if the VMS does not support cases (some do, most don't), almost all support bookmarks, I'd then bookmark each segment, exporting them individually.

Thank you John and thank you Michael. I've bookmarked segments in the past using Exacq I think it was, but from what Michael is telling me about Avigilon, that looks promising.

Thanks again guys

Tom,

I recommend looking into Genetec's visual tracking. http://www.genetec.com/solutions/resources/visual-tracking-feature-focus

Our low cost DVR/NVR's have a backup feature that allows you to select start and stop time by camera to add into a backup. Each are separate files but this is what you describe.

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Greg

With the exacqVision Enterprise edition, you can collect multiple different bookmarks into a case and then export the case to our .exe format (embedded player w/ video). The playback will play all the cameras segments back chronologically, based on the start time order of the clips.

Genetec provides a feature called Incident Recording. This takes the various video clips and creates an export file, that file can be edited, then exported as a "end-to end" clip. It also creates a incident, that can be classified, described, and then later retrieved from an easy incident report. It is a standard feature

EN-Genetec-[Incident-Recording]-Feature-Focus.pdf

Geutebruck has had this feature for years, called Cut List. You can put together your own Cut List, or give yourself a head start by selecting relevant events and sending them to the Cut List editor.

This is a How To on how the Cut List works for Geutebruck's previous version of software, GeViScope. I don't have one for their new GCore software, but it still works the same.

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Also S2's video solution (Exacq recording engine, but their own UI), and Pelco VideoExpert provide this functionality.

Wavestore USA offers this feature in a simple four step process. check it out

Milestone has this feature called Storyboarding

Well, I am overwhelmed at the number of suggestions put forward, and I thank all of you most sincerely for your help. I guess I've got some homework to do!

You can take a look to victor VMS incident builder where you can put together video, images, documents, logs and even thrid party documents into a case.

victor incident builder

Tom,

Yes, the Pivotal Vision VMS can do what you are asking plus more. Our technology is an autonomous VMS that is EVENT based instead of individual camera based. It has built-in intelligence founded on geo-referenced analysis and tracking that can be from multiple cameras simultaneously including PTZ’s. Not only does it pull out and organize recorded snippets of relevant activity from groups of cameras into EVENTS for after the fact review but as the activity unfolds it organizes LIVE streams and presents real time portal windows in sequence as the object moves from one camera FOV to the next.

In the example below, the live videos are automatically presented in sequence with the red box and audible alarm. Since the coordinates of all objects are known by the system, it tracks them from multiple cameras and plots their location in a Sky view that can be a map for exteriors and scaled building layouts for interiors. It also generates a bread crumb trail (red line) of the path of each intruder in real time as they move about.

When the object enters the first camera view an Event ID is generated which is used to link time and location stamped video from different cameras to the same “event”. If the object remains in continuous view of any of the cameras on site all the video feeds will be linked to the Event ID. Below you can see that an event was created when there was visual motion validated in a specific 3 dimensional analysis zone. The corresponding video from 4 separate cameras is then linked to the individual event ID.

When you click on the link to the video the system presents all 4 camera views together synchronized by time so all of the video can be reviewed as a single event and also exported and saved as such.