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Segra can automatically create highlight reels from your full session recordings by detecting important moments like kills, deaths, goals, and other game events.

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How Highlights Work

Highlights are created from bookmarks in your session recordings:
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Record a session

Highlights only work with Session or Hybrid recording modes. Replay Buffer mode doesn’t support highlights.
2

Bookmarks are created

During gameplay, Segra automatically creates bookmarks for important events (kills, goals, assists) using per-game integrations.
3

Generate highlight

After the session, click Create Highlight to generate a compilation of your best moments.
4

Review and share

The highlight reel is saved to the Highlights section, ready to watch or share.

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Bookmark Types

Segra creates different types of bookmarks during gameplay:

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Manual Bookmarks

Press F8 during gameplay to create a manual bookmark at the current moment.
  • Useful for marking clutch plays, funny moments, or anything you want to remember
  • Manual bookmarks are not included in auto-generated highlights, but they appear on the timeline so you can find them quickly when clipping by hand
  • You can change the keybinding in Settings > Keybindings

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Automatic Bookmarks

Segra automatically creates bookmarks for game events:

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Kill

When you eliminate an opponent:
  • Included in highlights by default
  • Works across the supported game integrations (see Game Integration)

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Death

When you are eliminated:
  • Not included in highlights (usually not a highlight-worthy moment)
  • Still visible on the timeline for review
  • Useful for analyzing mistakes

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Goal

When you score (Rocket League):
  • Included in highlights
  • Auto-detected via game integration

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Assist

When you assist a teammate:
  • Not included in highlights by default
  • Still visible on the timeline for review
You can see which bookmark types are included in highlights by the [IncludeInHighlight] attribute in the source code. Currently, only Kill and Goal bookmarks are auto-included. Manual, Death, and Assist bookmarks appear on the timeline but are not added to auto-generated highlights.

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Creating Highlights

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From Session Recordings

1

Open Sessions page

Navigate to the Sessions tab in Segra.
2

Select a session

Click on any session recording that has bookmarks.
3

Click Create Highlight

Look for the Create Highlight button (usually in the video controls).
4

Wait for processing

Segra extracts clips around each bookmark and combines them into a highlight reel.

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Automatic Highlight Generation

Enable Auto-Generate Highlights After Recording in Settings > Highlights (requires Enable Highlights to be turned on):
  • Segra automatically creates a highlight reel after each session recording
  • Only creates highlights if the session has highlight-worthy bookmarks (Kill or Goal)
  • Saves processing time by running in the background
Auto-generated highlights can use significant storage space if you play many games. Monitor your storage usage in Settings > Storage.

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Highlight Algorithm

Segra uses a smart algorithm to create engaging highlights:

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Time Window

By default, each bookmark gets a 4-second window before and after (configurable from 1–60 seconds in Settings > Highlights):
  • 4 seconds before - Provides context for what led to the moment
  • 4 seconds after - Captures the result and immediate aftermath
  • Total of 8 seconds per bookmark at the default padding

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Segment Merging

Overlapping segments are automatically merged:
  • Whenever two bookmarks’ padding windows overlap (8 seconds total at the default 4s/4s padding), they’re combined into one continuous clip
  • Prevents choppy transitions and duplicate footage
  • Results in smoother, more watchable highlights
For example:
  • Kill at 1:00 → Clip from 0:56 to 1:04
  • Kill at 1:02 → Clip from 0:58 to 1:06
  • Merged result: One clip from 0:56 to 1:06

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Fast Processing

Highlights use stream copy technology:
  • Segments are extracted without re-encoding
  • Processing is extremely fast (seconds instead of minutes)
  • Original video quality is preserved
  • No generational quality loss

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Game Integrations

Segra has built-in integrations for popular games to automatically detect events:

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Counter-Strike 2

  • Kills
  • Deaths
Integration listens for CS2 Game State Integration (GSI) events on a local HTTP endpoint.

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League of Legends

  • Kills
  • Assists
  • Deaths
Integration polls the League Live Client Data API (https://127.0.0.1:2999/liveclientdata) every 250ms.

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PUBG

  • Kills
  • Deaths
Integration parses local PUBG replay files written to %LocalAppData%/TslGame/Saved/Demos after each match.

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Rocket League

  • Goals
  • Assists
Integration uses on-screen OCR to recognize goal and assist banners in real time.

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Dota 2

  • Kills
  • Deaths
  • Assists
Integration uses Dota 2’s Game State Integration (GSI) on a local HTTP listener at http://127.0.0.1:1341/.

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Minecraft

  • Deaths
Integration tails the Minecraft Java latest.log (vanilla and Lunar Client). Bedrock Edition is not supported.

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Rust

  • Deaths
Integration tails output_log.txt next to the Rust executable for the You died marker.

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RuneScape: Dragonwilds

  • Deaths
Integration tails %LocalAppData%/RSDragonwilds/Saved/Logs/RSDragonwilds.log for the death-state transition.

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War Thunder

  • Kills
  • Deaths
Integration polls War Thunder’s local HUD message endpoint at http://127.0.0.1:8111/hudmsg to detect events in real time. The local .clog combat log is read only to extract the player’s nickname.

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Grand Theft Auto

  • Deaths
Integration uses on-screen OCR to detect the WASTED notification and bookmark the death. Supports GTA V / Online and Rage Multiplayer.
Enable or disable specific game integrations in Settings > Game Integrations. This can help reduce false positives or improve performance. Per-game details (events, kill/death lists) for the newer integrations may be incomplete and are continuing to be documented.

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Highlight Generation

Segra’s automatic highlight generation works from bookmarks that have already been recorded — either manual (F8) or events emitted by a supported game integration.

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How It Works

  1. Bookmark collection - The recorder gathers all bookmarks attached to the session
  2. Filtering - Only bookmark types tagged with [IncludeInHighlight] (currently Kill and Goal) become highlight segments
  3. Padding & merging - Each bookmark is expanded by the configured padding (default 4s before / 4s after); overlapping windows are merged into one continuous clip
  4. Stream-copy export - Segments are extracted without re-encoding and concatenated into a single MP4

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Enabling Highlights

In Settings > Highlights:
  • Toggle Enable Highlights to allow highlight generation for this session and to surface AI-related options
  • Toggle Auto-Generate Highlights After Recording to run highlight generation in the background as each session ends
  • Adjust Highlight padding (before/after) to change how much context is included around each bookmark
Manual bookmarks (F8) are always the most reliable way to mark moments — they’re recorded in real time and don’t depend on a game integration being active.

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Improving Results

To get better highlights:
  • Add manual bookmarks (F8) for moments your supported game doesn’t tag automatically
  • Enable per-game integrations under Settings > Game Integrations for the titles you play
  • Tune the padding sliders so each highlight gets enough lead-up and reaction time

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Highlight Output

Generated highlights are saved to the Highlights folder: 
Segra/
└── Highlights/
    ├── Counter-Strike 2/
    │   └── 2024-01-15_14-30-45.mp4
    ├── League of Legends/
    │   └── 2024-01-15_15-22-10.mp4
    └── Rocket League/
        └── 2024-01-16_18-45-33.mp4
Each highlight includes:
  • Video file - MP4 with all highlight segments
  • Metadata - Game, source session, bookmarks included
  • Thumbnail - Preview image
  • Waveform - Audio visualization

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Highlight Length

Highlight duration depends on the number of bookmarks:
  • Few bookmarks (1-5): 8-40 second highlight
  • Many bookmarks (10+): 1-3 minute highlight
  • Dense action (20+): 3-5 minute highlight
Segra automatically merges overlapping segments, so actual duration may be shorter than total bookmark count × 8 seconds.

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Editing Highlights

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Create Custom Clips

You can create custom clips from highlight videos:
  1. Open a highlight in the video player
  2. Use the timeline to select specific moments
  3. Click Create Clip to extract just those segments
This is useful for creating ultra-short clips (15-30 seconds) for social media.

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Re-generate Highlights

If you manually add or remove bookmarks from a session:
  1. Open the session recording
  2. Add/remove bookmarks as needed
  3. Click Create Highlight again
  4. Segra re-generates the highlight with the updated bookmarks

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Delete Unwanted Highlights

Right-click any highlight and select Delete to remove it. This frees up storage space.

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Troubleshooting

  • Check that your session has highlight-worthy bookmarks (Kill or Goal)
  • Verify Auto-Generate Highlights After Recording is enabled in Settings > Highlights
  • Manual, Death, and Assist bookmarks are not auto-included in highlights
  • Try manually creating a highlight from the session page
  • Use manual bookmarks (F8) during gameplay to mark moments
  • Check that the relevant game integration is enabled in Settings > Game Integrations
  • Some events may not be detected if the game is minimized or alt-tabbed
  • Disable specific game integrations that are producing errors
  • Manually review and delete unwanted bookmarks before generating highlights
  • Manually delete some bookmarks from the session before regenerating
  • Create a custom clip from the highlight with only your best moments
  • Adjust the bookmark types included (future feature)
  • Highlights use stream copy and preserve original recording quality
  • Improve your recording quality settings in Settings > Video
  • Ensure your source session was recorded at good quality

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Best Practices

Use manual bookmarks

Press F8 during gameplay to mark your best moments. This ensures they’re included in highlights even if AI misses them.

Review before sharing

Always watch your generated highlights before sharing. Remove any segments that don’t fit.

Clean up bookmarks

Delete unwanted bookmarks from sessions before generating highlights to keep them concise.

Combine with clipping

Create highlights first, then make ultra-short clips from the highlight for social media.

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Performance Tips

  • Highlight generation is very fast due to stream copy (usually under 10 seconds)
  • Highlight processing runs in the background while you keep recording
  • Multiple highlights can be generated simultaneously
  • Storage usage scales with the number of bookmarks (more bookmarks = longer highlights)
  • Recording - Capture gameplay sessions with bookmarks
  • Clipping - Create custom clips from highlights
  • Uploads - Share highlights online