Automatic sessions
Let armed recorders start and stop sessions automatically.
Overview
When automatic sessions are enabled, Pixelrush watches your armed recorders for transport state changes. When the first armed recorder starts rolling and no session is already running, Pixelrush opens a new session on the configured default video bus. When every connected armed recorder has stopped, Pixelrush closes the session. Armed recorders that are currently disconnected are ignored; if every armed recorder is unreachable, the session stays open until one reconnects or you stop it manually.
The session is named Session followed by the start date and time, in the operating system's locale format.
Setup
You need at least one recorder connected before you can mark recorders as armed. Without armed recorders, automatic sessions have nothing to react to.
- Open Settings → Recorders.
- Under Armed Recorders, check each recorder that should start and stop with the session.
- Turn on the Enable Automatic Sessions toggle.
- Set the Default Video Bus and, optionally, the Default Timecode Source:
- Default Video Bus — the bus auto-started sessions are scoped to. Select the bus connected to your recorders. You can change a session's bus later if you pick the wrong one here.
- Default Timecode Source — the timecode source auto-started sessions use to stamp each cut. Optional: if you leave it blank, Pixelrush infers timecodes from the available signals on the session's connection.
Once configured, press record on the recorder — either on the device itself or from the Pixelrush session view. The first armed recorder to start rolling triggers an automatic session.
Auto-sessions trigger on a recorder's start event, not on its current state. If an armed recorder is already rolling when Pixelrush connects to it, no auto-session fires for that take.