Find and Play Recordings

Here you can view, play, delete and save recordings in your output folder. Find and Play dialog details are as follows:

Name: File name of the video/photo
Format: Video/Photo type
Date Created: Creation date
Size: File size in kB, MB or GB
Video Source: If video is created using Debut, value would be one of these: Webcam, Device (e.g. USB capture device, DV camera), Network or Screen. Otherwise, this field would be empty
Duration: If video is created using Debut, value would be equal to file length. Otherwise, this field would be empty

Click the "Recordings" button on the toolbar to open the Find and Play Recordings window. To perform a function, select a recording in the list and click the operation you want to perform on the recording:

Play (F9)

Click on the "Play" button to play the recording. To stop, press the Esc key.

You can use the following video player shortcut keys:

Spacebar: Play/Pause

Home: Go to start

End: Go to end

Left Arrow: Step backward

Right Arrow: Step forward

Save (Ctrl + S)

To save a recording in another folder, click on the "Save As" button.

Rename (F2)

To rename a recording, right click on the file and select Rename. Enter in the dialog the new filename (without file extension).

Delete (Delete)

To delete a recording, click on the "Delete" button.

Videos (Ctrl + O)

Use this button to open your current recordings folder in the system file browser.

Snapshots (Shift + O)

Use this button to open your current snapshots folder in the system file browser.

Burn (Ctrl + B)

To copy the recording(s) to CD, click on the "Burn" button. You must have Express Burn CD Burner installed on your computer to use this option. Debut will automatically download Express Burn if it cannot find it on your PC. Alternatively, you may want to download Express Burn (which is available as a free download) manually from www.nch.com.au/burn.

Convert (Ctrl + C)

To convert the recording(s) video files to different formats, click on the "Convert" button. You must have Prism video converter installed on your computer to use this option. Debut will automatically download Prism if it cannot find it on your PC. Alternatively, you may want to download Prism (which is available as a free download) manually from www.nchsoftware.com/prism.

To convert the recording(s) image files to different formats, click on the "Convert" button. You must have Pixillion Image Converter installed on your computer to use this option. Debut will automatically download Pixillion if it cannot find it on your PC. Alternatively, you may want to download Pixillion (which is available as a free download) manually from www.nchsoftware.com/imageconverter.

Edit (Ctrl + E)

To edit the recorded video files and apply images to them, click on the "Edit" button. You must have VideoPad Video Editor installed on your computer to use this option. Debut will automatically download VideoPad if it cannot find it installed. Alternatively, you may want to download VideoPad (which is available as a free download) manually from www.nchsoftware.com/videopad.

To edit the snapshots files click on the "Edit" button. You must have PhotoPad Photo Editor on your computer to use this option. Debut will automatically download PhotoPad if it cannot find it installed. Alternatively, you may want to download PhotoPad (which is available as a free download) manually from www.nchsoftware.com/photoeditor.

Share (Ctrl + U)

Clicking on the "Share" button will open a menu where you can choose how to share the selected media. You can choose between:

Share Video with YouTube
Share Video with Flickr
Share Video with Dropbox
Share Video with Google Drive
Share Video with Vimeo

Selecting YouTube, Flickr, Dropbox, Vimeo or Google Drive will open the Upload dialog where you can enter your login information to upload the video to your online account. For more information about uploading to each site, see the help article at http://www.nch.com.au/kb/10242.html. You can also use the shortcut key Ctrl + U to open the Upload dialog.

The upload dialog may also be opened with the "Upload" command in the context menu opened when right clicking on the selected video.

Email (Ctrl + L)

To create and send an email with an attachment of the selected video or snapshot. Click on the "Email" button.

The Email dialog has the familiar, To, Subject, and Message fields available to allow you to compose your message. The Email Settings button allows you to choose the settings that Debut will use to send your email. There are 3 options:

MAPI: Send email with email software (e.g. Outlook, Thunderbird, etc.)
SMTP: Send email directly to the mail server. With this option, choosing Gmail needs turning on of Less secure app access option in gmail account settings. Likewise, with choosing Yahoo Mail, a password different from the mail password needs to be set for the app to access Yahoo mail in Account Security>>Manage App Passwords.
Work as own SMTP server: Send email directly to other side

After composing your message and verifying that the email settings are correct, use the Send button to send the email.

Refresh (F5)

Used to refresh the list of recordings found in the folder.

Select All (Ctrl + A)

Used to select all the recordings in the list.

Drag and Drop Outside of Debut

Drag videos and/or photos from Find and Play dialog and drop to explorer or other programs. Use this to do the following

Move files from Debut folder (usually in C:\Users\xxx\Videos\Debut or C:\Users\xxx\Pictures\Debut) to other folders via File Explorer/Desktop
Play videos to other Video players like VideoPad etc.
Open photos to other photo viewer like Prism