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Find a recorded clip

Find a recorded clip

When you need to review something that happened earlier, the Events page is where every recorded clip lives. Filter by camera and date, pick the event, and play the clip in the built-in video player.

Procedure

  1. Click Events in the left sidebar. The page opens with events in reverse chronological order, newest first.
  1. Narrow the list using the filters at the top of the page:
    • Camera — pick the camera you want to review.
    • Date range — set the From and To dates around when you think the event happened.
    • Trigger type — Motion, AI, Manual, or Schedule.
    • Severity — Critical, Warning, Info, or None.
  2. Scroll the feed to find the event. Click Load more at the bottom to fetch older events.
  3. Click the event card to open the event detail page.
  1. The clip plays in the built-in player. The clip includes pre-event footage from the ring buffer, so you see what happened in the seconds before the trigger.
  2. Use the player controls to review the clip:
    • Play / Pause — button or Space key
    • Scrub bar — drag to any point in the clip
    • Speed — 0.5x, 1x, 2x, or 4x from the speed menu
    • Frame step — left and right arrow keys step one frame at a time
    • Fullscreen — button or F key

Common variations

  • Jumping to a clip from the camera’s timeline. Open the camera detail page and use the timeline at the bottom. Coloured dots mark events: red = critical, yellow = warning, blue = info, gray = none. Click a dot to load that event’s clip.
  • Finding similar events using tags. On an event detail page, the AI-generated tags (for example person, vehicle, package) are clickable. Clicking a tag filters the Events page to events that share the same tag.
  • Downloading the clip. Click the Download button on the event detail page to save the clip as an MP4 file named {camera_name}_{timestamp}.mp4. The file goes to your browser’s Downloads folder.
  • Exporting a signed clip as evidence. Viewers can download the plain MP4 but cannot produce a signed chain-of-custody export. Ask an operator or admin to export the clip as evidence.