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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:
1

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 game integrations or AI analysis.
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 included in highlights by default
  • 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 with Counter-Strike 2, PUBG, Rocket League
  • AI can also detect kills in unsupported games

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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
  • Tracked for statistics and review
You can see which bookmark types are included in highlights by the [IncludeInHighlight] attribute in the source code. Currently, Kill, Goal, and Manual bookmarks are included.

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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 in Settings > Highlights:
  • Segra automatically creates a highlight reel after each session recording
  • Only creates highlights if the session has highlight-worthy bookmarks (kills, goals, manual)
  • 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

Each bookmark gets a 4-second window before and after:
  • 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

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Segment Merging

Overlapping segments are automatically merged:
  • If two bookmarks are within 8 seconds of each other, 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 (including headshots)
  • Deaths
  • Bomb plants (future)
  • Round wins (future)
Integration reads game state files (GSI) to detect events in real-time.

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League of Legends

  • Kills
  • Deaths
  • Assists
  • Objectives (dragons, barons) (future)
Integration monitors League Client API for live game events.

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PUBG

  • Kills
  • Knockdowns
  • Deaths
Integration analyzes telemetry data from PUBG API.

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Rocket League

  • Goals
  • Saves
  • Assists
Integration uses BakkesMod plugin to capture in-game events.
Enable or disable specific game integrations in Settings > Game Integrations. This can help reduce false positives or improve performance.

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AI-Powered Detection

For games without native integration, Segra can use AI to detect highlights:

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How AI Detection Works

  1. Screen analysis - Segra analyzes gameplay footage frame-by-frame
  2. OCR (Optical Character Recognition) - Reads on-screen text for kill feeds, scoreboards
  3. Pattern matching - Detects visual patterns associated with kills, deaths, etc.
  4. Event classification - Categorizes detected events as bookmarks

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Enabling AI

Enable AI in Settings > Highlights:
  • Toggle Enable AI to turn on AI-powered event detection
  • AI runs in the background during or after recording
  • Results are automatically added as bookmarks
AI detection requires more system resources and may not be 100% accurate. Manual bookmarks (F8) are always the most reliable.

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AI Accuracy

AI detection accuracy varies by game:
  • High accuracy: Games with clear, consistent UI (kill feeds, score popups)
  • Medium accuracy: Games with variable UI or visual effects
  • Low accuracy: Games with minimal UI or cluttered screens
You can improve accuracy by:
  • Playing in fullscreen mode
  • Using default UI settings (not heavily customized)
  • Ensuring good FPS (30+ minimum) during recording

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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 (kills, goals, manual)
  • Verify Auto-generate highlights is enabled in Settings > Highlights
  • Deaths and assists are not included in highlights by default
  • Try manually creating a highlight from the session page
  • Use manual bookmarks (F8) during gameplay to mark moments
  • Enable AI detection in Settings > Highlights for unsupported games
  • Check that game integration is enabled in Settings > Game Integrations
  • Some events may not be detected if the game is minimized or alt-tabbed
  • Disable AI detection if it’s creating too many incorrect bookmarks
  • 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)
  • AI analysis is slower and runs in the background (1-5 minutes per session)
  • 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