Capture photos, videos, and audio

Axon Capture enables easy access to the camera application on your mobile device and automatically prompts you to apply metadata to the recorded evidence files when you are done capturing them.

Depending on your agency’s policies, you may be able to capture photos, videos, and audio files. Your agency can also allow you to import photo and video files from your device’s photo/video library and remove evidence files that were accidentally recorded. Check with your agency Axon Evidence administrator to determine what actions you can take with Axon Capture.

Axon recommends placing your mobile device in airplane mode before recording video and audio, as interruptions such as phone calls or text messages will stop the recording.

Capture photos

Axon Capture allows easy access to the camera app on your mobile device and automatically prompts you to apply metadata tags to the recorded evidence files when you are done capturing them.

1. In Axon Capture, go to the Capture screen and tap Photo. The camera app opens.
2. Tap the Flash icon to set the camera flash for the photos.
   • Options include:
     • Automatic flash
     • Flash on
     • Flash off.
3. Tap the round button at the bottom of the screen to take a photo. Capture as many photos as you need.
4. When you are done capturing photos, tap Done.
5. The Evidence Review screen appears or, if you captured more than one photo, the Bulk Edit screen appears.
6. If you do not want to tag the evidence, tap Back.
7. For instructions on tagging evidence, see Add metadata to files.

Capture videos

Axon Capture enables easy access to the camera app on your mobile device and automatically prompts you to apply metadata tags to the recorded evidence files when you are done capturing them.

1. In Axon Capture, go to the Capture screen and tap Video. The camera app opens.
2. To start a video, tap the round button at the bottom of the screen. The button changes to a red square and the elapsed time is shown to the right of the button.
3. Tap the red button to stop recording, the button changes back to a round button. Tap the round button to start a new video.
4. When you have finished recording video evidence, tap the done button in the lower-right. The Evidence Review screen appears or, if you captured more than one video, the Bulk Edit screen appears.
5. If you do not want to tag the evidence, tap back.
6. For instructions on tagging evidence, see Add metadata to files.

Video watermark

Axon Capture for iOS has the ability to include the visual Axon watermark for video evidence captured through the application. The watermark contains the date and time the video file was captured, a notation that the video source is Axon Capture, and the elapsed time for the video. The watermark is placed in the upper right of the video.

The watermark date and time information uses the ISO 8601 international standard to indicate time in a 24-hour format and adds a Z zone designator directly after the time to denote zero offset from Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) time.

The watermark setting for Axon Capture for iOS is enabled and disabled by the Watermark setting on the Axon Capture Settings page in Axon Evidence and can be changed by Axon Evidence administrators.

Capture audio

Axon Capture provides the ability to capture audio evidence. When you are done capturing audio evidence, Axon Capture automatically prompts you to apply metadata tags to the recorded audio-evidence files.

Note: Axon recommends you enter airplane mode before starting an audio recording. If a call comes in while you are recording, Axon Capture will stop the recording.

1. In Axon Capture, go to the Capture screen and tap Audio. The Audio Recording screen opens.
2. At the bottom of the screen, tap the circular button. Axon Capture begins recording audio evidence.
3. When you have finished recording audio evidence, tap Done. The Evidence Review screen appears.
4. If you do not want to tag the audio-evidence file, tap Done.
5. For instructions on tagging evidence, see Add metadata to files.