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Search: The Playback Interface
The Playback interface is quite similar to a computer’s media
player, or to the on-screen display of a DVD/Blu-ray player.
Most of the controls are quite straight forward, and operate in
the same way as a standard media player.
Current Position: A basic progress meter. You can click to
move the current position icon to quickly scan through video
events.
Volume Control: Alters the output volume of playback.
Cut & Copy: Used to mark a Start Point and End Point for
incident backups. Press Cut to mark an start point, and press
Cut again to mark an end point. Press Copy to make a backup
of everything in between. For more detail of the Cut & Copy
commands, see “Specific Incident Backup” on page 31 for
more details.
Rewind: Reverses the footage.
Play: Plays footage at normal speed.
Pause / Step: Pauses playback but retains still images on-
screen. Subsequent presses will move a single frame forward
in the video. This will usually be 1/30th (NTSC) or 1/25th (PAL)
of a second.
Fast-Forward: Speeds up playback.
Slow: Plays back footage at reduced speed. Press multiple
times to further reduce the speed: 1/2 speed, 1/4 speed, 1/8th
speed, 1/16th speed and so on.
Recording Type: Whether the video being played back was
recorded under normal recording (blue) or based on motion
event (red).
Hide Console: Maximizes the area on-screen for playing back
your footage by hiding the on-screen controls.
Exit Playback: Leaves the playback interface and returns to
the live viewing mode.
Digital Zoom menu:
Right-click on the display and click to show
the
Digital Zoom control panel.
Click:
to zoom in, to zoom out, to draw a box over an
area of the video that you want to zoom in on,
to restore
zoom back to default setting,
to exit Digital Zoom mode.
Note: While you’re playing back footage, the NVR continues to
monitor and record normally.
To backup footage:
• Connect a USB flash drive or a USB hard drive (HDD) to
the USB Port on the front or rear of the NVR
• Choose the camera(s) you want to backup footage from.
• From the Video Type menu, select the type(s) of video
you want to backup.
• Set your Start Time and End Time.
• Select Backup.
The Backup File List
Will show you a list of all the video events between the start
and end times you’ve selected. All the ticked files will be part
of the backup.
Refresh: Looks for devices to which footage can be backed up.
This will include USB flash drives or hard drives connected to
the front or rear USB port.
AVI Format File: When checked, the NVR will transcode the
footage into a file format that can be played back on a computer.
About transcoding to AVI:
Don’t be put off by the complex word - transcoding is just a
shortening of “translating code”. Transcoding, while a straight-
forward process, is somewhat processor intensive. You may
notice some slow-down (or apparent non-responsiveness) on
your NVR while the transcoding takes place.
Specific Incident Backup
Search: Backup
Say you’ve got an hour of video recorded as a single pack, and
the interesting bit is from 33:12 to 33:26. We’re sure you don’t
want to copy and convert the whole hour for those precious 14
seconds. So, there is a better way!
Shown above is the Playback Control Interface, explained
in more detail over the page (see “Search: The Playback
Interface” on page 30). We’re going to discuss the functions
of two buttons only, the Cut button and the Copy button.
Note: These don’t work quite the same way they do on a
computer! Those familiar with a video editor might recognize
the function of the Cut button as being similar to the Mark In/
Out function.
Cut: Marks the Start Point and End Point for a specific incident
backup.
Press once to mark an start point at the current position
marker. Typically, this will be immediately before the incident
you want to copy.
Let the video play past the incident you want to save, and then
press Cut again to mark the end point.
Pressing Cut a third time will erase the previous start/end
points and begin the process again.
Copy: Initiates a backup of everything between the start and
end points. You’ll see the backup dialog shown above, but with
only a single video listed.
If there is no start point marked, the backup will commence
from the start of the timeline. If no end point is marked, the
backup will continue until the end of the current timeline.
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