Document K14976 – Rev A – 01/08

Common Operator Guide

Rapid Eye™Multi-Media DSP Digital Video Recorder

Revisions

Issue Date Revisions

1.00 01/08 New document.

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Common Operator Guide

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Contents1 Preliminaries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

Prerequisites . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

2 Rapid Eye View Software . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

View Logon and Site Selection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7Starting a Live Video Session . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

Automatic Video Resolution for Live Camera Windows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

3 Using Cameras that Pan, Tilt and Zoom . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

Pan and Tilt: Pull-control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9Pan and Tilt: Zonal Control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10Zoom . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

4 Recorded Video . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

Starting a Retrieval Session . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11Video Playback . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

Speed Slider . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12Video Search: Skip-to-time Slider . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12Using the Toolbar for Recorded Video . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

5 Making a Video Clip. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

Playing a Video Clip Using View Software . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13Distributing a Video Clip on a CD or DVD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14Downloading a Clip Player . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

6 Recorded Video from Alarms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

A Live-alarmed Session that Starts Automatically . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15Video from the Time of an Alarm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

7 Searching for Events . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

Search Criteria . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17Obtaining Video from the Date and Time of an Event . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

8 Audio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

Listening . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19Talking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

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Preliminaries

The common operating procedures in this guide are given as guidelines only. For some Honeywell Rapid Eye™ Multi-Media units, some of the procedures may not apply. If you require assistance in troubleshooting your system, contact Honeywell Video Systems Technical Support, at 1 (800) 796-2288.

Prerequisites

Before using the common operating procedures in this guide, the following prerequisites need to be completed.

Unit and Hardware

The Rapid Eye unit is installed, connected to one camera or more, and all components are powered.

For more information, see the Unit Installation Instructions, K14390.

Rapid Eye System Administrator

Your Rapid Eye System Administrator has:

• Used Admin software to create a Rapid Eye database, and user accounts for the operators of the Rapid Eye units.

• Used View software to run a Maintenance session and to configure the unit for cameras, PTZ cameras, video recording, alarms, live-alarm session, motion events and audio. For example, a unit can be configured to not record video, in which case the procedures in Starting a Retrieval Session, p. 11, may not apply.

For more information about Maintenance sessions, see the System Administrator’s Guide, K14392.

Admin CD-ROM

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Operator’s Workstation

• The Rapid Eye View software is installed on the Operator’s workstation.

• The connection from the operator’s PC to the unit —network, dial-up or direct—is working.

For more information about connections, see the System Administrator’s Guide, K14392.

View CD-ROM

LAN, WAN or POTS

Rapid Eye unitOperator’s workstation

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Rapid Eye View Software

View Logon and Site Selection

To access the Rapid Eye logon, double-click the View icon on your desktop.

Select a Rapid Eye unit in the tree on the Sites tab.

First time users: Obtain your User ID, Password and Multi central database from the Administrator of your Rapid Eye Multi system.

Tip! A Rapid Eye unit is also referred to as a Rapid Eye site.

User ID

Password

Database

User IDSite icon

Site tree

section

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Rapid Eye View Software

Starting a Live Video Session

After selecting a Rapid Eye site (see above), click Live. Streams from cameras are identified by a camera icon. All of the streams are selected by default; change the selection, as needed.

Click Full Screen , or Tile Best Fit , as needed. A tooltip identifies all unnamed buttons on the toolbar of a video player.

Monitoring many sites at once

Select another Rapid Eye site and start another Live session.

Automatic Video Resolution for Live Camera WindowsTo size a camera window optimally for a resolution: right-click the window and use the menu that appears for Video Resolution.

You can also size a camera window by dragging its corner; the resolution is adjusted automatically.The resolution of live video does not affect the resolution of recorded video.

For information about connections, the display of time, the resolution gauge and other elements of a Live session, refer to the Rapid Eye View Software Operator Guide, K14391.

Video player:

Site tree: status

Live: dateand time

Camera icon

Toolbar

session type

A lower resolution = a smaller picture = less detail.

A higher resolution = a larger picture = more detail.

Tip!

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Using Cameras that Pan, Tilt and Zoom

Tip! A camera window for PTZ cameras shows “PTZ” in its title bar.

Pan and Tilt: Pull-control

Pan / Tilt. Place the mouse pointer on the video picture of a PTZ camera window, then click and drag the mouse. A Pull-control appears in the camera window, overlaid on the video, and the camera pans and tilts in that direction. To stop the panning and tilting, release the mouse button; the Pull-control disappears.

Tip! Lengthen the Pull-control to speed-up panning or tilting.

If a Pull-control is not displayed when you click and drag the mouse, the video player is set to Zonal. The Zonal PTZ control is explained next, on page 10.

Switching to Pull control from Zonal

1. In the Player’s View menu, select Options.

2. Click Zonal PTZ Control Mode to remove the check mark next to it.

A Pull-control appears when the mouse is dragged.

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Using Cameras that Pan, Tilt and Zoom

Pan and Tilt: Zonal Control

Pan/tilt icon. Move the mouse pointer onto the video in a PTZ camera window. The pointer changes to an icon. Nudge the mouse until the arrow in a pan/tilt icon points in a direction that you need. The number next to the arrow indicates how much panning/tilting will occur after you click.

Continuous panning

For continuous panning, click an arrow without a number. To stop continuous panning, click the white octagon.

Switching to Zonal control from Pull

1. In the Player’s View menu, select Options.

2. Click Zonal PTZ Control Mode to add a check mark next to it.

Zoom

Zoom. To zoom in, move the mouse pointer onto a PTZ camera window and roll the mouse wheel away from your hand. To zoom out, roll the wheel towards your hand.

Note There is also a Dartboard control for PTZ cameras. Use of the Dartboard is explained in the Rapid Eye View Software Operator Guide, K14391.

Octagon icon

Clicking while the pointerNudging

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the mouse is a Pan/tilt icon pans thecamera.

Rolling the mouse-wheel

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Recorded Video

Starting a Retrieval Session

After selecting a Rapid Eye site (see View Logon and Site Selection, p. 7), click Retrieval. A stream dialog appears. All of the streams are selected by default; change the selection, as needed. Streams from cameras are identified by a camera icon.

Specify a date From which to show recorded video and indicate At which time.

To resize all camera windows at once

Click Full Screen , Tile Image Size or Tile Best Fit , as needed.

Monitoring many sites

Recorded video can be monitored from many sites at once: select another Rapid Eye site and start a retrieval session.

Player: Session type

Site tree: status

Date and timeof recordedvideo

"From" dateCalendar utility

"At" time

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Recorded Video

Video Playback

Speed Slider

Change the playback speed by dragging the Speed slider. A tooltip shows the speed.

Pausing the video moves the Speed slider to the left most of its groove.

Fast-forward moves the slider to the right most of the groove.

Video Search: Skip-to-time Slider

Use the Skip-to-time slider to jog to video, recorded earlier or later. A tooltip shows how much time will be skipped.

Using the Toolbar for Recorded Video

As the mouse pointer hovers over a button, a tooltip shows the name of the button.

Tool tip

Tool tip

Clip & still

Go To and Skip-to-time

Video playback

Video picture

Export an image

Tool tip

Player’s windows

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Making a Video Clip

Click Start Recording a clip while monitoring live video, while watching recorded video or during an alarm.

Playing a Video Clip Using View Software

Note If the clip contains many video streams, a “Select Streams for Clip” dialog appears after clicking Play.

Navigation

If the clip file is in another folder, click to navigate to a drive.

Start recording a clip. Stop recording a clip.

Save the clip.

Select a clip.

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Making a Video Clip

Distributing a Video Clip on a CD or DVD

Burn video clips to DVD (or CD) media using a PC equipped with a drive, and running the software that can do so.

Downloading a Clip Player

A user of a PC on which Honeywell Rapid Eye View is not installed, can download a clip player from Honeywell at:

http://www.honeywellvideo.com/support/downloads/downloads_dvr.html

On that page, click the “Rapid Eye” link. A link to “Clip Player - Web Edition [version number, build number]” appears. Download the Clip Player. After the download, a REMClipPlayer.exe file is listed in a WinZip window.

Double-click REMClipPlayer.exe to setup REMM Clip Player. After setup, the Windows desktop displays the REMM ClipPlayer icon:

Run the REMM ClipPlayer to view a Rapid Eye video clip.

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Recorded Video from Alarms

A Live-alarmed Session that Starts Automatically

When an alarm is received, the operator connected to that Multi site obtains a “Live-alarmed” window, and video from all of the cameras at that Rapid Eye site.

When the mouse pointer hovers over a button, a tooltip shows the name of the button.

Note Rapid Eye View software can be configured for an Alarm session instead of a Live-alarm session. For information about customizing alarm handling, refer to the Rapid Eye View Software Operator Guide, K14391.

List of alarms,

Live-alarm toolbar

Acknowledge (ACK) all alarms

caused by events

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Recorded Video from Alarms

Video from the Time of an Alarm

Start a Retrieval session from the time of an event by adding (or leaving) a check mark in the box next to the alarm list, and then selecting an alarm in the list of alarms.

For use of the playback toolbar and other controls, see Video Playback, p. 12 and Making a Video Clip, p. 13.

Check mark for starting a Retrieval session when selecting an alarm.

Arrow for displaying the list of alarms

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Searching for Events

Search Criteria

After selecting a Rapid Eye site (see View Logon and Site Selection, p. 7), click Events.

In the Events session, select a tab, and then select an event that you need to search for. Selecting search criteria enables Start. Before clicking Start, you can select more events on other tabs, and change the date and time for From and To, as needed. For the date, there is a calendar utility.

The tabs show Events that can be used as search criteria.

Calendar

Search progress

Selecting an Event

Time

Events Session

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Searching for Events

Obtaining Video from the Date and Time of an Event

In the Results pane, select one event, or many. Click Video. A Retrieval session starts.

Select the video streams that you need. For the toolbar controls, see Video Playback, p. 12. The arrow below the toolbar lists the events selected in the Results pane. To see video from the time of other events, select an item from that list.

Results of the search

Arrow for showingthe results thatwere selected.

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Audio

Listening

To listen to a Multi site, click on the audio toolbar, for the channels that carry audio.

Talking

To talk to a Multi site, click on the audio toolbar, for the channels that carry audio.

Channel 1 channel 2

Audio meter

Peak

Talk

Listen

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