This guide will show you how to navigate through the different functions on your Network Video Recorder. If your recorder doesn't look the same as these photos, you may be using an older firmware. Use these steps to help you:
Right click on the screen, enter your password if asked, click OK, and then compare what you see with the 3 below images. Click on the image that matches what you see, and you will be brought to the correct post.
Live View Controls
This section is all about the controls on the Live Viewing screen of your recorder. These amount to zooming in, and changing the views on your screen. The recorder I use here is a 4 Channel recorder. You may have many more cameras, but the principles remain the same.
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- 1) Right-click anywhere on the screen.
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- 2) If you have a password enabled, it will prompt you for it now. Click exit Full Screen.
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- 3) In the bottom toolbar, the only button that is useful to you is Digital Zoom(circled). Left-click to enable zooming.
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- 4) Use your mouse wheel to zoom in and out.
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- Where it zooms in depends on where your mouse cursor is. Hover around things you’d like to zoom in on.
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- Circled top-left is a bar you can also use to zoom in and out, if you prefer this control style. You can also click and drag around to move around the screen once zoomed in. Right-click to exit Digital Zoom.
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- 1) Circled bottom-right is Window Division, which dictates how many segments your Live View screen is divided into.
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- 2) Choose a division option. What you see here will depend on the maximum number of cameras your system can broadcast. If you have a 16 channel recorder, the highest setting you will see is 4×4. For 32, 6×6 is the max.
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- This is a 2×2 layout. Notice the red circle, bottom-right. These arrows will scroll to a new page of cameras if you have more cameras than appear on this page. This way, you can choose from seeing fewer, but larger feeds, or smaller, but more feeds. The recycling-looking button next to it will toggle auto-switching if you want the best of both worlds.
Playback
This section details the process of viewing recorded events. It will also cover any functions or controls needed to easily find something.
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- Left-click the Menu icon, circled top-left.
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- Click Playback.
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- Select the camera that you would like to perform the search on by checking the corresponding box.
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- Select the date you would like to search by double clicking that date on the calendar.
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- Circled here is the timeline. When you first select a date, it will show a 24-hour period.
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- Circled bottom-right is the Timeline Zoom tool. The increments of time here correspond with the amount of time shown on the timeline.
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- After selecting 30 minutes, a total of 30 minutes is shown on the timeline instead of the default 24 hours. This makes searching through smaller blocks of time much easier.
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- Each solid block of blue on the timeline represents one Clip.
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- Hover over a Clip to see an image preview of that particular moment in time.
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- The grey areas both in between the Clips, and, in this case, before the Clips, show that no motion was detected. As a result, there are no Clips. When the Timeline is dragged to one of these grey areas, it will automatically jump to the nearest Clip, where motion is detected. If there are no Clips for that entire day a message will display “No Video Is Found.”
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- Speed Up and Slow Down controls are circled bottom-centre. For each left-click on Speed Up, the playback time will double.
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- Speed Up to a maximum of 16x playback.
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- Each left-click on Slow Down will halve the playback time, down to 1/8 playback speed.
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- Note that playback speed does not reset to 1x speed automatically. Left-click Speed Up or Slow Down to return the playback speed to 1x.
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- Circled bottom-centre is Play/Pause. This can be used in combination with Speed Up/Slow Down if desired.
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- Controls to jump 30 Seconds Backward or Forward are pictured here. 30 Seconds Forward is to the right of 30 Seconds Backward.
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- Play in 1x speed in Reverse by left-clicking Reverse.
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- Press Play to toggle Reverse off.
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- Circled bottom-right is Next Time Period. It will shift the timeline forward by the current length of the Timeline. In this case, the time will be moved forward by 30 minutes, showing 1:00 to 1:30.
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- Previous Time Period will do the same, but backwards.
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- Full Screen, bottom-right, will make the camera full screen while performing Playback, hiding the entire Menu.
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- Digital Zoom, bottom-centre, allows you to zoom the image using your mouse wheel, in the exact same way that was covered in Live View controls above.
Export Clips to USB Stick
Before you begin this walkthrough, plug a USB stick into a USB port on your recorder. There are two, one being on the back.
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- 1) Left-click the Clip button, Circled bottom-centre.
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- 2) Choose the start and end times for the Clips you would like to save to your USB stick.
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- 3) Click Save.
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- 4) Check off Video and Log. Click OK.
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- 5) Circled centre-to-left, click Add Folder.
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- 6) This is where your saved Clips will live. Name it something that you(and/or others) can easily identify later.
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- 7) Click OK.
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- 8) Double-click the folder you have created to open it.
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- 9) Click Save.
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- 10) To check the download progress of your Clips, click the icon ,top-right, circled in blue. In the red circled area below, you will see a list of your clips, along with status bars. Do NOT unplug your USB stick until all clips are done transferring.