ACE Triaging

The Trail Camera Triaging App for Windows can be downloaded from here.

We don’t have a fancy icon for it yet, but once installed, you should find it at C:\Program Files\ACE\AceID > aceid.exe . I find it best to right-click and Pin to Taskbar so it’s easy to find.

I’d recommend inserting an SD card with trail camera videos on it into your computer, and then running this exe file. It will ask you to navigate to the folder that has your trail camera videos in, and then to select the name of the trail camera. It should then open the first video and you can start going through and upload all videos with any species on, and discard any that do not have any species on. You can also increase the speed of videos if there are lots with nothing on them.

It will only work if you have used the Phone App to record the deployments, so don’t try using it until you’ve started using the Phone App.

If the trail camera was not set to the correct date/time, you will get a warning to correct the time – click on the warning, and then you will see the first and last videos for that deployment, and a list of all the deployments for that camera. You can reset the times of all the videos based on the time you deployed the camera, or the time when you took it down (based on the data from the Phone App) – select the date/time closest to either the deployment time, or the time that you took it down (e.g. if one of the videos shows you putting the camera up, then click on the relevant start date/time. Conversely, if one of the videos shows you taking the camera down, then click on the relevant end date/time…. If you don’t have either, you’ll just need to guess whether the first video was closer to when you deployed it, or the last video was closer to when you took it down – the times will be slightly out then, but at least the dates will be correct…)