The video window
Show and hide the Video Source
Click the Show/Hide button on the toolbar and select Video Source.
If you choose not to display the video source, you can still display the center-point and other features of the subject to monitor the tracking.
Displaying the video footage requires significant processor power. If viewing the video footage during acquisition is not necessary in your experiment, deselect Video Source to reduce processor load and consequently increase your maximum attainable sample rate.
1.Click the Show/Hide button on the toolbar and select Text Features.
2.Select Hide Information or Show Information.
3.If you select Show information, choose one of the following:
Per Arena or Per Trial.
4.Select whether to show the trial name, acquisition status and/or acquisition elapsed time. Furthermore you can select the text color and opacity.
If no trial has been planned, the Video window shows No Trial Planned.
Show/hide body points and other track features
1.Click the Show/Hide button on the toolbar and select Detection Features.
2.Select the features you want to display and their colors and opacity.
3.Adjust the Line thickness and the Dot size. Check the result in the video window, then click Close.
When you are in the Manual Scoring screen, you can only choose which body point to show and adjust the dot size.
1.Click the Show/Hide button on the toolbar and select Arena Features.
2.In the Arena Features window, select the Arena Features you want to display.
In this example, the four quadrants of an open field have been selected for display.
The arenas and zones are highlighted in the colors selected in the currently active Arena Settings. If you want to change the color of a zone or arena, open those Arena Settings, and change the fill color.
You can check the status of acquisition in the Video window:
▪Trial number. Displayed as long as the recording starts. If you carry out batch acquisition, the remaining number of trials is shown in brackets.
▪Ready for start. Displayed until data recording starts.
▪In progress. Displayed as long as recording lasts. This text is displayed if you selected to show the text features Per trial.
▪Acquiring. Displayed as long as recording lasts. This text is displayed if you selected to show the text features Per arena.
▪Timer. Displayed as long as recording lasts.
▪No Trial Planned. Displayed when no trial is planned to the trial list. To acquire data, add a trial, or in the Trial List change the trial status.
▪Starts in. Displayed only when you track live in a series of trials. It shows the time until acquisition of the next trial starts.
▪Recording video. Displayed when you record video with the option Save video only, track later selected.