Abekas Mira User's Operation Manual - page 80

User Operations Guide—Mira Instant Replay Server 

78 

Copyright ©2014, Abekas Incorporated 

Revised: 5 September 2014 

Parent/Child Clips 

Mira Explorer provides functionality to create virtual copies from “Parent” clips; these virtual copies of the clips are called “Child” clips. One 

may create as many Child clips as desired from the Parent clip. No physical media data are duplicated when the Child clip(s) is/are 

created; thus, the Child clips are created instantly. 

After a Child clip is created, one may mark and then trim off the “Head” and “Tail” sections from the Child clip, so that only the area of 

interest is included in the Child clip. 

It should be noted that once a Child clip is created from a given Parent clip, then that Parent clip cannot be deleted from the Mira Clip 

Library while the Child clip (or any other Child clips from that Parent clip) is still in existence; a clip delete error message will appear. If you 

wish to delete a given Parent clip, then all Child clips created from that Parent clip must first be deleted; once this is done, then that Parent 

clip can be deleted from the Mira Clip Library. 

Create a Child Clip 

Begin by first selecting then Parent clip from which you wish to create the Child clip. 

1.RIGHT-Click on Parent clip. 

Pop-up menu appears. 

2.Click one of the following two items: 

Create Child Clip 

(Selection appears for both “regular” and “multi-angle 

ISO” clips; if used with multi-angled ISO clips, then 

Camera Angle 1 is used in the Child clip) 

or... 

Create Child Clip for Angle 

(Selection appears only on multi-angle “ISO” clips) 

NOTE:  If the Parent clip is locked, then a Child clip cannot be created from it. You must first unlock the Parent clip; refer to the procedure 

“Locking Clips” on page 113 below. 

Continued on next page… 

1 

2 

2