Creating Archive Video Extractions
By: Bryce Capodieci
Editor’s Note: At LENSEC, we want to provide the best tools possible to our partners and Perspective VMS® end-users. We’re writing up technical guides for creating video extractions from surveillance video archives. Over the next few newsletters, we will focus on a four-part technical series designed to help with the key elements of video extractions. Here are the topics we have planned for this series:
When you’re extracting video that has been recorded previously, you are identifying video that already exists on the system and marking the required video for safe-keeping until it can be downloaded to a media file that is designed for playback outside the PVMS interface.
![PVMS Extractions: Archives Module](https://lensec.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/Extractions-3-1-1024x580.png)
Creating extractions from archived video is handled in the same way as creating extractions from real-time video from the Camera Viewer, except you navigate to the Archive Module. You can do single camera or multiple camera extractions.
1. To start, navigate to the Archives Module.
![Extractions: Video Playback](https://lensec.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/Extractions-3-2.png)
2. Once you have the number of video containers open for view, follow the steps from Camera Viewer Module: Real-Time Extractions. From the pop-up configuration window you can playback the extracted video clip immediately before saving to the extractions table. This is because the archived video is already stored.