HD Witness Quick Reference Guide

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Main Menu

Main Menu / System Settings – click on HD Witness logo

in the upper left corner.

ESC key minimizes/maximizes application.

Management Tree

1). RESOURCES

Quick Reference Guide


Create New Layout: Simply open a new tab at the top

of the screen

• Right Click on Server for Context Menu and Server Settings

• Drag and Drop Server into Layout to view

Server Health Status Monitoring

• Right Click on Camera for Camera Settings

∙ Settings can be applied to multiple licensed cameras at once

• Drag and Drop Cameras between servers to re-assign them

∙ All camera and record settings will remain and timeline will track archive seamlessly

• Configure Recording Drives in Server Settings (Context Menu)

• Right Click on Server for Manually Discovering and Adding new cameras

not already auto-discovered

USERS - (administrator only)

• Add a New User – Right Click on Main Users Icon for context button Change User Settings

• Change User Settings – Right Click on specific User for Context Menu

• Add a Layout – Right Click on specific User for Context Menu

Drag and Drop a Layout from one User to another to copy that layout to their authorized views

LOCAL – Local Video Clips stored in Indexed Drives

SERVERS


Multi Selection within MANAGEMENT TREE:

• Select multiple items – SHIFT+ click

• Add an item to selection – CTRL + click

Search Results Type – Default is 'Any Type'. Use drop down selector to narrow Type Search (cameras,

video files or still images)

Search Terms:

• Enter search terms into 'Search' box

• It is possible to search cameras by Name, MAC address or IP address

• Results are displayed in real time as terms are entered (at least 3 characters)

∙ To show results for less than 3 chars use Enter

• Search results are automatically added to the current Layout

• Use '+' between terms to add a search criteria

• Use '\' between terms to remove a search criteria

2). SEARCH

Index New Folders – Accessible in Systems Settings of Main Control (under General Settings tab)

NOTE: Client needs to be re-started for newly indexed files to display in Local Tree


Scene Controls

Custom layouts can be easily created, saved and assigned to Users

Create New Layout: Simply open a new tab at the top of the screen

Save Current Layout: CTRL + S

Save Current Layout As: CTRL + ALT + S

Open Saved Layout:

Layouts are listed under their respective User in the Management Tree

• Select layout in Tree and press Enter

• Use layout's Context Menu in Tree

• Drag and drop layout on Scene

• Drag and drop layout on Tab Navigator to open It in new tab or in new

window

• A layout can be opened In new tab or in new window

Add Item(s) to Scene/Layout:

• Select item(s) in Tree and drag into Scene

• Double-click on an item in Tree (single)

• Select item(s) in Tree and use Context Menu (Right Click)

• Item(s) can be opened In new tab or in new window

• Open sever on scene to see its status graphs

Scene Context Menu: Right click anywhere on blank space of scene

Fit Videos in View – Double click on background (use

Context Menu on background)

Toggle Show/Hide Side Panels – F11 (or ESC to

show panels back)

Move the Whole Scene – Right click and drag

(ALT + Arrows)

Zoom the Whole Scene – Mouse wheel on empty scene

space or (+/- keys )

Video Spacing – CTRL + mouse wheel (also Context Menu)

Cell Spacing (16x9 aspect ratio by default or 4x3 choice) – Scene Context Menu above


Video Controls

Select Item – Single Left Click (blue frame

indicates the selected one)

Change Selection – Arrow keys (also works

in Full Screen)

Multi Item Select – Left Click Mouse Drag

(or CTRL + Left Click individually)

Move/Swap Selected Item(s) – drag and drop

Item Zoom – Mouse Wheel (also +/- keys )

Item Resize – Click and pull an Item’s corner to stretch

it larger within the grid (grid squares will highlight green if

space available and red if conflicting with existing items)

Duplicate Item(s) – CTRL + Drag and Drop (can be done to multiple items at once)

Toggle Full Screen for Item – Double click (Enter)

Rotate Item:

Fine – use Icon on item or (ALT + Left Click and Drag/Rotate)

Coarse – hold CTRL while performing fine rotation

Video Playback Controls

Fast Forward and Rewind – use Speed Slider above Play Buttons (or mouse wheel on Speed Slider)

Adjust Volume – Volume Slider (CTRL + up/down arrows or mouse wheel on Volume Slider)

Move/Swap Items


Navigation

Displaying Archive

• Recorded Time – green

• No recording from lack of Motion Detection – red

• When several items are selected then recorded chunks are combined on the bottom line, selected

item’s chunks are on the upper line

Go to Position – click on that point in Timeline or click and drag Slider on Timeline

Use to toggle show/hide thumbnails (or resize thumbnails by pulling/dragging its upper edge)

*Last partial minute of an archive is not allowed for navigation and Thumbnails while data is writing

Zoom Time Scale:

• Mouse wheel on Timeline

• Double click on bottom scroll bar to zoom out to full Timeline

• Switch to live –

• Toggle cameras sync'd to same time – select an item and press

Calendar Search

• Use to toggle open/close Calendar Search

• Green cells indicate dates with recorded content

• Blue frame indicates displayed dates

• Click on a cell to zoom to zoom Timeline to selected date


Export Videos

Select (click) on an item from which to export video

Select ranges:

• Set start/end range for export –right click and drag or use Time Line Context Menu

("[" and "]" shortcuts)

• Resize the selected region by dragging edges

• Clear the selected region using Context Menu (right click anywhere on selected range)

Use Context Menu for Export Selection.

Export Tips:

• Export the same time video from another camera – click on another item

• The video exported will be displayed in Local Folder in the Management Tree

• Videos exported from cameras are signed by Digital Signature Watermark

• Right-Click on any video clip to check for Digital Watermark

• Local video clips can be edited (trimmed) for length and re-exported as well

• Note: Digital Watermark will only authenticate with clips rendered from camera archives


Advanced Search Features

MOTION SEARCH

Select Region to Search Motion on:

• Use on an item and draw the region

• Hold SHIFT and draw a region of interest to search

• Hold SHIFT+CTRL to add multiple search regions

Smart Motion Search Tips

• Timeline will instantly show Red where motion occurred will be applied to motion chunks only (in red)

• Use again to switch off Smart Motion Search

THUMBNAIL SEARCH

Select (click) a single item to search

Select range – Right Click and Drag to highlight range (same as Video Export)

Right Click the selected range for Context Menu and select Thumbnail Search

Select any single item from the thumbnail selection and its time span will auto-highlight in the timeline.

Select Thumbnail Search (Context Menu) again to further narrow (zoom) the time search on that specific time frame.

Thumbnail Search Tips:

• Thumbnail Search is displayed on another layout

• It is possible to play back any item on Thumbnail Search layout

• Items cannot be removed from Thumbnail Search layout

• Thumbnail Search is allowed for local files as well

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