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Had an incident in yesterdays meet, where on a 200m, the gun didn't fire loud enough to trigger and so we didn't have a triggered event. Being that it was on the otherside of the field and it was windy, we didn't here it either. By the time we noticed, the runners were coming close to finish. We captured them all - but without a manual start as it was too late.

Anyways, fortunately we had a coach that had a stopwatch time for one of the athletes. Now not knowing another way around this, I set the event start to that athlete, and then all the other athletes times were delta from her. Using a calculator, I took her stopwatch time and added the delta to get each athletes actual time.

But I would think there has to be a better way in FinishLynx, where I should be able to set an event starttime based on a Image time + a delta. The only thing I found close for changing/setting the starttime of an event is in "Menu/Event/Image Start" which lets you set the zero time, but no where to set a non-zero time.
Has anyone have some knowledge that you can share?

Thanks,
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Good issue to discuss. I just wrote a tip on this to help others in a similar situation.

Tips and Tricks to Recover a Missed Start Time

You can also apply the start time before (then apply a negative offset with a minus sign), after or your manual start time if you happened to catch it in time and then do an offset. But doing it from zero time is probably the fastest method as it involves no math :-)

Hope it helps and answers your question.
Go to the first runner in the image as if all is well and your going to read the photo. Then in the top left panel of the scree where all the camera info is you will find a time. This is the time the event started. Click on it and a box will open. Where this box says hash time type in your hand time followed by enter key then read the photo as normal. You may have to play with this a few times but when you work it out you will find it very handy.

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