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June 5, 2003
Quick report
To find information quickly without stopping recording, bypass the
Main menu to run a report:
1.
Press FUNCTION + MENU on the front panel.
2.
Enter a user name and password when prompted. The message
Do you want to run a quick report or run an existing report?
displays.
3.
Select Quick to go to the Edit a Report screen.
4.
Select Text or Event, then Report Criteria Setup to go to
the Report Criteria screen.
5.
Enter your desired search criteria.
6.
Accept your changes to display the desired video clips.
7.
Tag the desired video clips (highlight video clip and press
Camera 1), then press Play to view them.
Play back the last images
To immediately play back the most recent clip recorded:
1.
Press PLAY (
$
).
2.
Enter your User ID and password. The clip begins to play back.
Note
This feature assumes user preferences/clip order is set to
reverse chronological order.
This feature plays back the first clip in the review clips
list. The clip can be the most current event or it could be
the last timelapse clip started up to 15 minutes ago or, if
autobreak is disabled, the timelapse clip could have
started a week ago.
If not in reverse order, pressing PLAY plays back the
oldest clip available.
Save (copy) clips to an archive drive
After you have configured an archive drive (see
Set drive partitions
,
page
11
), save downloaded images to an archive drive:
1.
Find the clip(s) you wish to copy:
a.
Press FUNCTION, then press PLAY. The Search screen
displays.
b.
Press PLAY on the screen. The Review Clips screen
displays.
c.
Select the clips you wish to copy. Move to the desired clip,
then press Camera 1. Pressing Camera 1 again de-selects
the clip.
Press
"
or
!
to move to the next clip and press Camera
1. Press the Camera 2 button to select all the clips.
2.
Archive the clip(s). Press the Camera 3 button to archive the
selected clips. An Archive Status screen displays the progress.
To cancel the archive operation, press any button.
You can also save images to a removable device in one of three ways:
•
During playback of a clip, press FUNCTION and MENU to
activate archiving of the clip currently being displayed.
•
Create a report, set up the Run Report to automatically copy to
disk, select the report created, and set the time to archive.
•
Use the RAS software to save the clip to a computer disk. The
saved clip (if not too large) can then be burned onto a CD-ROM,
copied to a Zip disk, or e-mailed.
Save (copy) images to a VCR
To save video to a VCR:
1.
Connect the monitor output of the DVMS to the video input on
the VCR.
2.
Connect the video output of the VCR to the monitor.
3.
Use the search options to find the images you want to save.
4.
Press Record on the VCR.
