Thirty seconds covers what a still photo cannot: water backing out of a tile outlet, a heifer favoring a hind leg, a plugged nozzle on a boom, wind pushing spray off target.
Each clip is stamped with the time and your GPS point. It lands as a pin on the visit map and sits in the timeline between the voice note before it and the photo after it. A clip shot with no signal waits on the phone and uploads with the rest of the visit.
For anything longer, keep talking instead of filming. The voice note carries the explanation, and the draft report is written from what you say. If one clip is not enough, shoot a second.
The phone also supports photo markup. A marked-up still works better when the detail that matters is a spot or a visible feature rather than motion.
Shoot a clip that explains itself
Start the clip from the record screen during the visit. Say what it shows in a voice note next to it: the field, the outlet, the animal. Someone who opens the report a month later did not stand where you stood.
Video records in the mobile app for iOS and Android. The web app plays clips back and does not record them.
Put the numbers in a reading or a note. The clip shows the motion, and the reading holds the flow rate or the lameness score, so the value lands in Metrics with its history.
After the visit
Clips play back in the web visit record, with the voice notes and photos from the same walk. Write the finding into the report in words, because the report is what the client reads and files. Anyone on the team can open the clip from the visit later.
Clips are part of the paper trail. The activity log records each capture on the visit, so a clip appears with its time alongside the voice notes and photos.
A clip recorded without signal stays on the phone until you reconnect. Transcription, drafting and sending need that connection too, so the visit is ready to review once the upload finishes.
Last checked: November 6, 2026