2.11. Video recording

The DICOM Viewer allows you to record video for the selected image viewing window. If you use the View Multiple Series mode (see Section 2.8), then video will be recorded only from the selected window. If you are viewing multiple images in a series at the same time (see Section 2.9), then video will be recorded only for the left bottom image area (highlighted in red in fig. 2.14). The following objects will be recorded:

• tissues;
• measurements;
• annotations;
• scout lines;
• tags;
• orientation cube;
• ruler;
• synchronization crosshair.

The following objects will not be recorded:

• cursor;
• dialog windows.

Video recording will be stopped if:

• focus is moved to another window within this tab;
• window size is changed.

Video recording can be synchronized with playback (see Section 2.11). To start playback when recording a video and stop it after completing a video recording, click on the arrow on the right side of the button, select the Settings... item and in the dialog that opens, check the Start playback after recording starts box. If this box is checked then video recording will stop after the playback is stopped.

To set the frame rate, click on the arrow on the right side of the button, select the Settings... item and in the dialog that opens, enter the value into the Frames per second field.

To start recording video:

1. Click on the left side of the Start video record button. The file save dialog opens.
2. Select the save path and the file name.
3. If nessesary, select the file type (AVI or MP4) from the Files of type drop-down list.
4. To start video recording, click Save and to cancel, click Cancel.

During video recording, the button looks like . To stop video recording, click the left side of the button. After the video recording is completed, the Video record was stopped message appears.