Saving Clips And Images Video Manager Quick Guide

2015-09-28

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Video Manager Quick Reference
Video Manager Overview
You can use MobileView Video Manager (also called “the Viewer”) to record,
view, replay, search for, and archive recorded video, audio, and GPS data.

Starting the Viewer
Manual Start Up
You can start the Viewer manually, either:
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Via the MobileView Video Manager shortcut located on the desktop
— or —

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Via the Start > Programs menu

Locate the Video Manager Application and Double-Click to Open it.

Startup Connection
After double-clicking Video Manager the DVS Connections Window will open.
By default, Viewer opens with a blank screen and displays the DVS Connections
dialog box. The DVS Connections dialog box lists online video data stores. A
data store can reside on a DVR or another PC from which Video Manager is
running.

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Machine Column: Lists all network devices running MobileView Software that
have an available live or archival video data store.
Live Column: Indicates whether the device has a live video data source. You
will not use this column if connecting with a docking station. Would be present
and available if using a laptop to connect live to a DVR on a vehicle.
Archive Column: Indicates whether an archival data store is available on the
listed device. A plus symbol (+) indicates that archives exist.

Viewing previously saved video on your PC:
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This footage is stored on your computer and can be viewed at any time in
the following location:
C: Camera\Archives

To view archived (saved from a DVR or via the docking station) footage:
1. Go to the archive column.
2. Hit the plus to expand the selection.
3. Select the checkbox to the archive.
4. Login

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Using a Docking Station:
The Docking Station is used to view footage currently residing on a DVR hard
drive caddy (HDD) removed from a vehicle.
The HDD must be inserted and locked into place, before the docking station is
powered ON.
1. Insert the HDD Caddy into the docking station. Lock Caddy into place.
2. Turn On Docking Station
3. Launch Video Manager Application
4. Click the Open local button at the bottom of the connection manager
window.
5. The below screen shot will appear. Browse to the desired drive.

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Drives on the caddy:
Archive: Location of all Alarm Events stored on the HDD.
Data: Location of the camdata.dvs file – all video stored on the HDD is
stored here.
6. If you want to look at all video currently on the removable Hard Drive
Browse to the camdata.dvs file on the Data drive
Click on camdata.dvs
7. If you want to look at all archives or tagged video on the removable hard
drive browse to the Archive drive and double click on the archive you wish
to play.
NOTE: Drive letters for Archive and Data will be next available for given
computer. You will always see Archive and Data, but the drive letter will
vary based on network drive mappings.

8. Click Open

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9. Login when prompted:
Note: If on a network this may be the username and password you use to
login to the machine.

Exiting the Viewer
Exiting the Viewer closes all connections to local and remote DVRs and shuts
down the Viewer.
To exit the Viewer:
1.

Click Close to shut down any video footage that is being show.

2.

Click the “power” button to close the Video Manager Software Application.

Viewing pane
The viewing pane displays video clips from multiple cameras on the vehicle.

System
controls

Viewer
layout
controls

Camera
controls

Player controls

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Timeline
The timeline shows how much footage is available for playback. When
monitoring a single DVR connection, this shows the start and end times of the
recorded file. The time on the left side represents the start time. The time on the
right represents the end time. This is the total amount of video surveillance
footage stored on the HDD.
A small marker moves across the timeline to show the current point of playback.
This value matches that shown in the status pane.

Text Overlays/Camera Titling
Viewer can be configured to display image properties in the header or footer of
the image.

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Date/Time

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DVR Site Name

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Reference

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Camera Name

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GPS/Speed

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To Access:
1. Click Config

2. Click Local Settings

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Right Click-Menu (Context Menu)
Many of the functions provided through the GUI screen buttons are also available
by right clicking in a camera, map, or vehicle display window. More importantly,
several functions relating to camera displays, such as saving and printing camera
images, are only available through the camera window right-click menus.

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Save as single image or Save all images
You can save and archive individual camera pictures for later reference.
To save as a JPG:
1. Right-click in the camera window and select “Save as single image” or
“save all images”

2. Choose the required image format from the dropdown list in the save dialog
box (JPEG or BMP).
3. Choose the filename and folder location to store the image and click OK.
Note: If text overlays are turned on, the saved image will also contain the text
overlay. Turn off image overlays (using the Overlay button) to remove text
overlays from the saved image.
Saves jpg images in C: Camera\Archives
Default File Name includes:
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Name of Vehicle
Year/Month/Day
Time: Hour/Minute/Seconds/Millisecond
Camera #
Camera Name

Save as video file – AVI File
Saves by default in in C: Camera\Archives
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Saves footage from one camera
No audio
Total length not to exceed ~3 minutes in length
Not encrypted.
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Default file name given by default, but may be modified.

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Go To Time – skips to user entered date/time
To go directly to a user specific date and time, right-click in the camera window
and select Go to time from the right-click menu.

Bookmarks (tag and search)
This section explains how to use the tag and search functions. You can Tag the
start and end of a specified video clip to make saving incidents easier. By tagging
a start and end you don’t need to remember the exact time something happened.

Tag: To enter a bookmark or tag comment at your chosen video file, click the
Tag button. When you click the Tag button, a bookmark prompt appears. At the
prompt, enter the bookmark or tag comment, and click OK.
Any number of bookmarks can be entered to denote specific points of interest in
the reviewed video file. Once bookmarks have been entered, click SEARCH to
display the current list.

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Search: When you click the Search button, the Search bookmarks prompt
appears. It shows currently set bookmarks and notes the time and date each
was created, as well as the camera and tag comment.
When you close Video Manager the Tags/Bookmarks will automatically be
erased. They are session specific.

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Saving Video to Burn to DVD
Video Manager lets you save video of interest on CD/DVD for later playback or
viewing.

Save control as .DVS File
Video saved in this manner is secure and saved as a .dvs file extension.
1. Click the Save button.
2. Ensure Save data from.
3. Select system to archive and enter archive name under destination
4. Select the range to save:
All. Save all archives in the DVR machines. It is not recommended to use this
option.
Bookmark. Save archives from the bookmarked files (TAG). Recommended
option.
Manual. Manually enter start and stop dates and times.
5. Deselect any boxes in what to save if you do not want the default settings.
6. Optional settings: enter temporal, channel, and priority rate.
• Temporal. This is the value that sets video resolution in fps for the video
being saved. If you are recording at 10 FPS you can save at a lower FPS.
You cannot record at 4FPS and save at a higher value.
• Channel. The default setting leaves the channel field blank and saves all
video channels. If you enter a number for a specific camera, only video from
that camera will be saved.
• Priority. Choose the required priority for saving video. Default is Low and
should not need to be modified.
7. Enter account name and password under security.
Account needs to match with how the machine is logged into the system. If
you enter in the wrong account information you will receive an error message.
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Viewer Account: viewer/geview

8. Click OK.
9. The File copy status bar appears on a translucent window. Wait until the file
finishes saving.

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Burning an Archive/Evidence Disk
Note: Video Clip should be saved as .DVS file before launching burner.
Opening the burner application
You can open the burner application by either:
• Clicking Launch Burner in the Save to Archive dialog box
— or —
• Right-clicking on the gray area between the POWER and ZOOM buttons,
clicking Extensions on the shortcut menu, and then clicking Launch DVD Burner.

To burn an archive disk:
1. Select Archive to burn to CD.
2. Scroll to the file you want to burn to DVD > Highlight it
3. Click Add
4. Click Burn
5. Select the Time Zone to assign to the archive (should be your time zone)
6. Click Go

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When the archive is done burning the DVD should automatically eject. The DVD
can be played back in any PC and should Auto Run.

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