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The Video panel

Introduction

The Video panel, as its name suggests, will show a video image from a camera or video file. Usually, this panel is involved with the tracking of the animal, but occasionally it just shows a video image (for example, in one of the TakeNote protocol modes, or if your protocol doesn't use tracking but has been set to allow video observation of the apparatus).

  

  

Figure 1. The Video panel, showing an animal being tracked in an Open Field video.

Details

Full details of how the video panel is used for tracking can be found under Running tests.

  

The following buttons are specific to this panel. If the panel is the promoted (main) panel, these will appear alongside the test control buttons in the tool bar at the top of the window; otherwise they will appear as the title of the tabbed section when the Video panel is the currently-selected tab:

Some, but not necessarily all, of the following buttons may be present - their operation is described in detail under Buttons and keys for controlling testing.

Take background image
Adjust the apparatus map
Pan the video picture
Record a movie for a presentation

The following buttons will be present will be present at the right-hand side of the tool bar when the video image is a live video source, and can be used to record the test to an ANY-maze format video. Full details can be found under Recording videos of tests.

Start video recording
Pause video recording
Stop video recording
Add a label to the video

  

When this panel is the selected tab, the right-hand side of the tabbed section's title will contain controls relevant to the tabbed display:

Show Help - Displays help on this panel.
Promote panel - Promotes this panel to be the main panel of the Test window.
Collapse tabs - Collapses the tabbed section, to give more space to the promoted panel. The tabbed section can be reinstated by clicking on any tab.
Close panel - Closes this tab, removing it from the tabbed section. It can be re-added using the Panel settings button on the ribbon bar, or the Test window panels section of the protocol.

See also:

 •The Test window 
 •The Session log panel 
 •The Errors & Warnings panel 
 •The Dashboard panel 
 •The Zones panel 
 •The Sequences panel 
 •The Activity panel 
 •The Keys panel 
 •The I/O Status panel 
 •The Virtual Switches panel 
 •The Charts panel 
 •Clearing test information ready for the next test  

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