Timeline view and Multicam sync

Once you upload all your recordings into a single project, Reduct can help you make sense of the material you have by displaying a timeline of how they relate to each other chronologically, and allows you to view multiple concurrent recordings at once.

1. The timeline view

​You can access this feature by clicking the timeline icon next to the New recording button.

You will now see a list of all your videos, with a button to Auto-detect timestamps. Click on the button. Reduct will automatically try to infer timing for each media file.

You will now see the videos with timing metadata, organized into a timeline view. The videos from the same event (similar data and time) will be grouped together.

Manually adding or fixing timing metadata

For videos with no embedded timing information (like recorded phone calls or video from unusual devices), Reduct will not be able to determine their timing. They will be listed under Files without timing metadata (1)at the bottom of the window. You will need to manually enter data and time for these.

1. Click on the title “Files without…” to expand that section, and view all the files without timing metadata.
2. Click on the Enter time metadata button for the file that you’d like to fix.
   
3. Now, enter the date, time and the timezone and hit Save.
   

Editing the timing in the timeline view

There is also an option to edit timing metadata of recordings that previously had timing set (automatically or manually).

Click on the timing metadata right below the name of the video. This will take you to a window where you can edit the date and time information for each media file.

2. The Multicam side-by-side view

The timeline shows "events" with overlapping video footage, one after the other.

1. Select all the videos you’d like to view at the same time.
2. Click on the View synced video button.
   

Refining the alignment:

Even after entering all the timing metadata, the videos are sometimes off by a few seconds. In such cases, Reduct will automatically give you a suggestion to align them so that they are synced down to the millisecond.

Just hit the Adjust button for all the suggestions.

3. Working with the Multicam sync in Reduct

Multicam sync allows you to review footage from different angles simultaneously. You can jump to specific moments by clicking on a word in the transcript, which will take you to that moment across all files and angles.

Audio will play from the video you clicked on, while all other angles continue playing in sync.

Choosing the layout and videos

To focus on specific videos, you can hide any you don’t need. Just click the dropdown at the top and uncheck the ones you’d like to remove from view.

If you want to focus just on the video, you can also change the layout to remove the transcript, and just have the videos play in sync. Click on the icon on the right of the files’ drop-down to switch the layout. Click it again to switch back.