Features

Recording sessions

Capture every cut on a video bus from start to stop.

Overview

A session has a name, a video bus, a timecode source, and a cut list. The cut list grows in real time during a live capture, or is built immediately when you create a session from existing data.

The name, video bus, timecode source, and frame offset are properties of the session and can be changed after the fact. The cut list is built from Pixelrush's continuous snapshots.

Live capture

Select Sessions in the top navigation bar.
Select Start Session in the top-right corner.
Fill in the Start Recording Session dialog:
- Session Name — optional; Pixelrush generates a name from the current date and time if you leave it blank.
- Video Bus — the bus to scope this session to. Choose the output sending program to your recorders. You can change this on the session at any time.
- Timecode Source (Optional) — the connected timecode source used to stamp each cut. You can change this on the session at any time.
Select Start Recording.

The session detail page opens. A red Recording in progress banner indicates the session is open and accumulating cuts. While the session is active, the page shows:

Live Timecode — the current timecode from your timecode source, updating continuously.
Current Source — the input currently on program, resolved to its name from the device.
Cut List — a growing table of every recorded cut, with source name and in/out timecodes. The list auto-scrolls as new cuts arrive; scroll up to browse history.

To end the session, select Stop Recording. The banner clears, the end timecode is recorded, and the session is closed.

Sessions from existing material

To build a session from existing material, select Create on the Recording Sessions page. The Create Recording Session dialog offers three modes: From Timestamps (the default), From Timecodes, and From EDL.

From a timestamp range

Use this mode when you know the wall-clock time of the program but not the timecodes. Pixelrush selects the cuts recorded in that wall-clock window and stamps each one with the timecode it snapshotted from the chosen timecode source at the moment of the cut.

Switch to the From Timestamps tab in the Create dialog.
Enter a Session Name.
Select the Video Bus and the Project Timecode Source (Optional).
Set the Start Time and End Time using the date-and-time pickers.
Select Create Session.

The wall-clock window only selects which captured cuts to include; each cut's timecode comes from the snapshot of the chosen timecode source.

From a timecode range

Use this mode when you know the start and end timecodes of the program and want to pull cuts from data Pixelrush already captured on that video bus. This is useful for extracting a segment from longer continuous snapshots, such as one act of a multi-act show.

Switch to the From Timecodes tab in the Create dialog.
Enter a Session Name.
Select the Video Bus and the Project Timecode Source (Optional).
Enter the Start Timecode and End Timecode in HH:MM:SS:FF format.
Select Create Session.

Pixelrush looks up every source change it recorded on that video bus within the timecode window and builds the cut list, reading each cut's timecode from the snapshot of the chosen timecode source. The video bus and timecode source must be ones that Pixelrush was connected to during the original capture.

From an EDL file

Use this mode when you have an existing CMX 3600 EDL, for example from another system that was logging the show.

Switch to the From EDL tab in the Create dialog.
Enter a Session Name.
Select Browse and choose your .edl file (or drop it onto the upload area).
Set the Framerate to match the framerate of the original EDL.
Select Import.

Pixelrush parses the EDL and creates a session with a cut list matching the events in the file.