VMS-333 & VMS-Mobile User Guide
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6.6 Upload recorded data to the computer.
1.
Remove the card and plug it into your computer.
2.
Transfer the mpeg2 or other formatted file to a directory on your computer.
Note:
If the recording is not in mpeg2 format, you will have to convert it.
6.7 View your recorded data
1.
Use MediaMapper to load a base map and any reference layers.
2.
Load the mpeg2 file from your video camera or NanoFLASH unit.
The video tracks you took will appear as trails on the map. Click them to watch the videos from that
starting point.
The features you captured will appear as icons. If you used both the cabled feature trigger and FT
button to capture them, they will appear in two different colors—one color for each method you
used. Select the features, using the Feature Select tool, to view their details.
The audio notes you captured will also appear as icons. Click them to hear the audio recording.
6.8 Pay attention to indicators
Various lights and audio signals help you determine important status information, as shown in the tables
below.
Light indicators (LEDs)
The top (red) light is used to show various activities. It will flash when a picture is taken with a
connected DSLR, it will flash when a feature is dropped, and various other times as a response to an
action. It also flashes if data is being received from a GPS unit that does not have a fix. If the red light is
on solid that indicates that there is some kind of serious system error that should be resolved.
If lights do this:
It means this:
Red Data LED is continuously on
There is some kind of serious system error that
needs to be resolved. This occurs if the VMS-333
is getting more data than it can put in the audio
channel, causing bandwidth overflow. This may
be because the data is reported too often or
unnecessary strings are being sent.
The solution is to reduce the amount of data,
possibly by eliminating extraneous GPS sentences
or AUX data. You could try using the supplied
wired GPS puck or use the VMS-Mobile GPS from
the Android device. Either device limits the NMEA
sentences to the requisite types being dent to the
VMS-333.
Note:
For details of the GPS NMEA sentence
types required for VMS-333, see
Appendix C:
External GPS Receivers
.