Logging Events like described in Log Events - lexical (post hoc), results in continuously coded data.
This is the generally advisable way of coding your video, even if it means that you have to use a Code "NILL" or similar to fill in the blanks. Because several statistical calculations, have trouble with not coded intervals (Among them the well know reliability routine of Cohen's Kappa!).
INTERACT does, of course, allow you to freely code your video, leaving gaps between coded intervals. Even when using the Lexical coding mode.
To start a new Event, only whenever something interesting happens, proceed as follows, the moment you have entered the last Code of the previous Event:
▪Click Play 
or press F7 to start the video manually, without creating a new Event.
The Lexical chain indicator 
is still visible in the Observation Controls.
▪As soon as anything worth logging happens, click the Start new event button (or press the SPACEBAR)
The Lexical chain indicator now disappears, because the chain was closed.
▪As soon as the behavior changes or the activity has ended, click Stop current event in the Coding panel or press the SPACEBAR again.
▪Continue to add your Codes to the currently logged Event, as described before in Log Events - Lexical-coding.
Note: You can (re-)decide after each Event, whether you want to continue coding or rather just play the video!
| TIP: | If you need to leave the 'Lexical chain mode' manually, press ESC or click on the Lexical chain indicator . In case you have used hierarchical chained code definitions, the first code file is than reloaded automatically. Additional information can be found in Hierarchical Coding Systems. |