We have a custom ViewItemPlugin that displays charts which we’d like to export alongside camera footage. Wtih SC2016 we can select our view for export (a checkbox shows in the corner of the view. This is absent in SC2014) which shows our plugin in the Export dialog, but no video is exported.
It is documented anywhere which methods I need to implement to allow video export of my ViewItemPlugin’s contents?
The Smart Client RGB Video Enhancement sample is an example of a plugin that will get exported together with the video it is using. It implements a public class RGBVideoEnhancementExportManager : ExportManager in order to do so.
There is a layout difference in the SC2014 and SC2016 export dialog but the functionality should be the same.
Please see this knowledge base article (https://force.milestonesys.com/support/articles/en_US/How_To/Exported-data-playback-and-XProtect-Smart-Client-plugins)
What we were hoping for was AVI export of our ViewItem’s contents, rather than exporting the actual plugin. Our plugin works on potentially large sets of data which we don’t want to export, just video of the plugins contents, as if made by a screen recorder.
Ok. Now I understand, but I have to disappoint you, currently the AVI export is not aware of and not capable of including graphics overlays. AVI Export can only export the camera images, nothing else.