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Chapter 3 –Video Explorer
3.3 Zoom
Time
Now as soon as you left click within the Video fragment, the system will present the cameras with the
video images recorded at that time. Each camera will show at the bottom right of the image the date
and time stamp which is the last recorded image nearest that time. Because it is possible that no data is
recorded exactly at that time the system tries to get the nearest. You’ll notice that each camera may
have a slight different time stamp; because each camera is recorded independently it will show the time
relative to its own recoded information. Lastly if the system can not find a close full frame of data, the
words
SYNC
will be displayed where the date/time stamp is normally. This is not a problem as the
system will catch up with that camera as soon as information is available.
No because the fragment can be a large segment of information, you will find trying to get to a time a
little tricky. This is where the zoom function comes into play. What you do is when you left click a
fragment you hold down the selection and drag an inverted box to zoom into fragment.
When you select a zoom area, the system automatically changes the Fragment status to show the first
selected area on the top line, which is also puts a “
>
” in from off. And second line then changes to
white and give the time and how many days on from that selection, this can be forward or backwards,
depending on if you select from top – bottom or bottom – top.
As soon as you let go of the mouse, the selection then becomes the entire fragment displayed graphic.
Below is a highlight fragment about to be zoomed into. Here we see the selection is from 02
nd
November, start time of 05:33:28, and the selected area is 04days from that till 19:19:34
Now as soon as you have zoomed into an area, a few options are now available to the user.
You may recall the following options, which are selected when you right click on the fragment
window.
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