MNR-310 User’s Manual For Version 3.0.
MNR-310 User’s Manual About This Manual Target Audience This manual is intended for End Users who actually execute security tasks such as monitoring activities, patrolling secured zones, searching video data and managing alarms with use of NVR surveillance system. The reader is expected to own not only the basic operation skills but permissions to access major functionalities, as the access rights are based upon different user roles defined by the System Administrators.
MNR-310 User’s Manual Related Documentation Since this manual focuses on operation instructions for live view operations, playback, search video and export files from NVR server, there is very limited information about system installation and configurations for System Administrator. System Administrators and End Users who would like to obtain the instructions on NVR system setup, please acquire the latest MNR_310 System Administrator’s Manual from ACTi Download Center http://www.acti.
MNR-310 User’s Manual Conventions Used in This Manual The following are typographic conventions used in this manual: Bold: Bold typeface is used for a keyword, major functions of NVR, or a title of a section/column. Italic: Italic typeface is used for a filename or location path. Underlined: Underlined typeface is used for a document name or hyperlink. “Bold”: Bold interface enclosed in double quotation marks indicates the name of a button or a choice item.
MNR-310 User’s Manual Legal Notice Disclaimer . The information contained in this document is intended for general information purposes. ACTi Corporation shall not be liable for errors contained herein or for incidental or consequential damages arising from the furnishing, performance, or use of this manual. The information contained herein is subject to change without notice. The English version of this document is the official one for all purpose.
MNR-310 User’s Manual Table of Contents 1 About This Manual 2 Target Audience ....................................................................................... 2 Content Overview .................................................................................... 2 Related Documentation ........................................................................... 3 Technical Support .................................................................................... 3 Conventions Used in This Manual.
MNR-310 User’s Manual D. Choose the Initial Screen 14 E. Language 14 F. Remember Login Information 14 G. Retrieve the User Password 14 Change User Profile............................................................................... 15 6 NVR User Interface Overview 16 NVR Resident Tool Bars ........................................................................ 16 NVR Main Module Screens .................................................................... 18 Live View ..........................
MNR-310 User’s Manual Manual Recording ........................................................................ 32 Take a Snapshot of Live Image .................................................... 33 Digital PTZ Operation .................................................................. 33 Optical PTZ Operation ................................................................. 34 PTZ Panel Overview 34 Using Mouse Controls 35 Navigate a Fisheye Camera Channel ..........................................
MNR-310 User’s Manual Overview MNR-310’s NVR system, ACTi NVR 3.0 (hereafter referred to as NVR 3.0) is a Windows-based software that provides distributed network video surveillance solution with full functionality. This software supports centralized management, real-time monitoring and recording of up to 32 ACTi video streaming devices from local or remote network, with rule-based services to trigger multiple schedules and events. ACTi NVR Server / Client Architecture NVR 3.
MNR-310 User’s Manual Log in to the System There are two types of clients in NVR 3.0 system: Web Client and Workstation Client. Both clients will enjoy the same user interface and functions. A web client can access NVR 3.0 system via the Windows default browser: Internet Explorer; while a workstation client requires the NVR3 Worksation pre-installed on the computer. This section will include the said methods to access your NVR 3.0 system.
MNR-310 User’s Manual Login A. Enter Account & Password Please obtain the Account & Password A information from System Administrator who has previously set up your User B account in NVR 3.0 system. ●Account (non case-sensitive): deckard C kain (example) ●Password D (case-sensitive): Aa123456 (example) B. Change UI language To change UI language, select the desired language from “Language” dropdown list. C.
MNR-310 User’s Manual Access via NVR3 Workstation NVR3 Workstation includes a set of programs that provide the interface between users and the NVR server. It may be installed in the NVR server, or in the remote client computer that connects to the NVR server via network. For the local client of the NVR server, NVR3 Workstation will start automatically after you login to Windows; for the remote client, please double-click the shortcut icon on your desktop to execute this workstation application.
MNR-310 User’s Manual Login Fill in the following fields then click “Login” to log in to the system. The login process of Workstation is very much the same as that of Web browser. A. Choose a Server NVR3 Workstation can remember multiple server sites and their login settings. Click on the arrow next to Server Name, and select a site from the dropdown list to log in. 13 www.acti.
MNR-310 User’s Manual B. Server IP & Server Port In Server IP field, key in localhost or 127.0.0.1 if NVR3 Workstation is on the same computer with NVR server. If you are connecting from another computer, please input the ip address of server computer, for example: 220.228.146.21. In Server Port field, key in the server port number, default is 80. C. Enter Account & Password Please obtain the Account & Password information from System Administrator who has previously set up your User account in NVR 3.
MNR-310 User’s Manual Change User Profile You can maintain your own account information on NVR interface without System Administrator’s help. On NVR screen, click “Update Profile”. You may change the email address or password and then click “Apply” to save the settings to NVR server. 15 www.acti.
MNR-310 User’s Manual NVR User Interface Overview Unlike some NVR system products on the market, whose tree-like structure may easily confuse the User. NVR 3.0’s easy user interface structure saves you a lot of time and hassle going from one page to another. Once you log in to the system, you may switch to any of the main function modules: Live View, Playback and Setup on any screen.
MNR-310 User’s Manual 1 Tool Bar: To the right of title bar reside three links to most-used functions throughout all screens: Options are certain useful functions you mostly need. The provided functions vary on different screens. Live view Screen Playback Screen Setup Screen System Log provides the search module for you to review the records of user’s behavior on this server. This is only available when your User right has permission to access it.
MNR-310 User’s Manual NVR Main Module Screens Click on the orange buttons on Module Bar to switch among these three main screens directly. Live View In this module you can see live view from cameras and devices, perform PTZ operations with mouse or Joystick, view system log, receive alert on the Event panel, setup view layouts, perform manual recording or take a snapshot. Playback You may find and playback existing recordings in this module. synchronously.
MNR-310 User’s Manual Live View Live View is the interface where you see the live views from your cameras. It is where most of the security professionals access the surveillance system. Aside from keeping an eye on the video, you may also cycle through View layouts, drag and drop various cameras to the screen, review a log of events, take snapshots, control PTZ cameras, start or stop recording on a given channel, trigger Digital output and broadcast or talk to specific cameras.
MNR-310 User’s Manual Watch Live View Upon logging in to the system, you will enter the live view screen. If your System Administrator or colleagues have already set the default layout, you may immediately see the live view, and start monitoring without the need to arrange the devices or layouts. Select a View In NVR 3.0 system, a View refers to the layout where the live images of a few devices are arranged in proper positions to suit the monitoring purpose.
MNR-310 User’s Manual Select a Camera To watch the live view of individual devices, you need to identify and add this device video stream to a blank channel in display area. All the devices that you are allowed to see are in the Device List panel on the left. The permissions to watch different devices are defined by your User Group, the details of which are managed by the System Administrator.
MNR-310 User’s Manual Remove a Channel To remove a channel from display window, you may right-click to bring up quick menu on the channel, and select “Remove” to remove this video source. Remove All Channels in title bar and selecting “Remove All”. You may disconnect all devices by clicking Tip Full Screen On system title bar, click the icon then select “Full Screen” to enter full screen mode. Click on top right corner of title bar to return to normal mode.
MNR-310 User’s Manual Enable View Patrol You may have the saved Views patrol in turns. In this way, the views in different areas in your site may cycle through themselves for you automatically. On title bar, click patrol, click to select a saved patrol. As patrolling is running on Live View is doing to stop. You may create an Instant Patrol, which will only temporarily take effect during your current login. To configure the instant patrol, please: 1. Define the Global Dwell Time between the views.
MNR-310 User’s Manual Monitor the System The security monitoring, in surveillance world, involve monitoring or patrolling the whole site, discovering unusual circumstances or investigating the scene at the earliest time. The said tasks would require knowledge and skills to make use of NVR server functions. This section will introduce the essentials of how you achieve the goal with NVR 3.0 server.
MNR-310 User’s Manual On a map channel, if a device is triggered by events such as video motion, PIR motion or digital input device, an event icon will blibk besided the device icon for a few seconds. Click on the device icon to see mini live view window on the map. Video Motion Digital Input PIR Motion Event Panel It is important to check out the messages pushed into Event panel all the time. These messages are arranged in a reverse-time order (newest on top, oldest on bottom).
MNR-310 User’s Manual Important Notice When NVR server fails to connect a device, to get the video or have disk problems, it might be caused by a temporary network disconnection in your overall environment. The connection might recover after the problem is fixed. If not, please contact your System Administrator.
MNR-310 User’s Manual Pop-up Event Playback Sometimes the instant event playback window would automatically pop-up to notify you of events detected on certain camera sites. As the events in certain sensitive spots will have higher priority than other channels, your System Administrator would apply this “Pop-up Event Window” function to these cameras. In this way, these critical events will be pushed into your sight actively.
MNR-310 User’s Manual Motion Region Indicator The motion region indicator is a red frame that blinks when motion inside this ROI (Region of Interest) is detected. You can turn off the indicators of all channels on Live View screen. On Live View screen, click “Disable Motion Alert”. 28 www.acti.
MNR-310 User’s Manual Live View Operations Aside from pure watching, there are more benefits provided by NVR server to accomplish more tasks. For example, you may make use of the audio function to commutate with people on camera side, look into more details with PTZ devices, or navigate the whole scene on the maps. Show Mini Live View Windows on a Map You may open mini live view windows of all devices on a map channel to get an overview of what is happing on this map.
MNR-310 User’s Manual Adjust Audio-in Volume If one or more cameras are connected with an audio-in device like a microphone, or supports two-way audio function, the audio signal will be recorded along with video stream. You may listen to the real-time audio on Live View screen or recorded audio in Playback screen. In Live view, NVR server will send out the audio signal when you select a channel. On bottom right of Live View screen is the audio-in volume control.
MNR-310 User’s Manual Trigger Digital-out Device If a camera is connected with a digital-out device such as a door contact or an alarm, you may trigger it via NVR server on Live View screen. Do either of the following: On the channel, right-click to bring up the quick menu, the DO icon will appear available if the corresponding DO device is connected. Click “DO” to trigger it, click again to stop triggering. As a channel is focused, click on Live view Control panel, click again to stop triggering.
MNR-310 User’s Manual Watch Instant Playback of a Channel You may watch the playback of any channel in a pop-up window on Live View without switching to Playback screen. As a channel is focused, click on Live View Control panel. Manual Recording You may manually record the real-time video on Live view screen. This video will only be searchable in Playback. You may switch to Playback screen to find this clip (please refer to the section in this manual: How to Do Playback on page 38 for instructions).
MNR-310 User’s Manual Take a Snapshot of Live Image You may take a snapshot on a channel live image on Live View screen. The snapshot will be saved to default folder on your client computer as .jpg format (The system default location is Windows Desktop). You may find the location path on the bottom of NVR window after taking a snapshot. You may do one of the following to take a snapshot: On a channel, right-click to bring up the quick menu and select “Snapshot”.
MNR-310 User’s Manual Optical PTZ Operation If there is a camera supporting optical pan/tilt/zoom function in current view, you may operate it via the PTZ panel. Once you select the camera, the optical PTZ controls will become available on PTZ Panel. PTZ Panel Overview Digital/Optical Zoom switch Zoom Controls Click to switch the PTZ mode between digital PTZ optical PTZ mode PTZ mode. and .
MNR-310 User’s Manual Using Mouse Controls You may also use mouse to perform PTZ negation on a channel view or a mini live view window on a map. Place the mouse over the channel to do the following PTZ operations: To execute optical Panning and Tilting, click anywhere on the live window to allow the camera to move in that direction. The length of the direction indicator is proportional to the Pan and Tilt speed. The farther you place the cursor from the center, the faster the Pan/Tilt movement.
MNR-310 User’s Manual When you click on a channel which is set to such modes : Panorama mode with Wall mounting, Double Panorama mode with Wall mounting, Panorama Focus mode with Wall mounting and Double Panorama mode with Ceiling mounting, a clickable cursor will appear on the view to allow you explore the image.
MNR-310 User’s Manual Playback NVR Playback is the NVR module that processes recorded clips, where you may search, playback and export video. Multiple channels can be played synchronizedly, and video clips may also be exported in either RAW or AVI formats. Playback UI Introduction Playback screen consists of four function areas: Video Source, Playback Display, Time Bar and Search Panel.
MNR-310 User’s Manual How to Do Playback On NVR screen, click into “Playback” page to enter Playback view, none of the video sources is selected in the beginning, and you have to select your desired channels. Add Video Source There are two ways to pull in video sources: 1. In View area, click on a saved view. 2. From Device List panel, double-click on a device or drag it to Display area. Through either way, you may add video sources, and their time bars will display in Time Bar area.
MNR-310 User’s Manual To remove all channels at one time, on title bar, click to bring up the most used playback-related commands menu, and select “Remove All”. 39 www.acti.
MNR-310 User’s Manual Search on Time Bar You may focus on a certain channel as a search base. Its time bar will be highlighted as well. 1.
MNR-310 User’s Manual Event Type Highlight Colors Playback Controls The playback related controls reside in Playback Control Bar. You may adjust the video play speed, do a reverse / forward play, or pause the video to spot your desired view. For non-continuous recording types such as DI, or Event recording, you may use the “Previous Recording” or “Next Recording” buttons to jump to the part directly.
MNR-310 User’s Manual Digital Zoom on Channel View Regardless of the device models, you may perform digital zooming while the video is playing. 1. Click and drag a highlight rectangle over any channel, and the area highlighted will be displayed in the full live video window. In this mode, a picture-in-picture view will show in the lower right of live view window. A red rectangle will mark the currently enlarged view area within the full size video.
MNR-310 User’s Manual Explore Fisheye View You may change to the desired fisheye view mode on Playback screen. Select a fisheye camera channel, right-click to bring up the channel menu Fisheye Mode select one view mode. In a view mode where ePTZ operation is available (e.g. Quad mode), you may explore the region of interest using mouse or PTZ Panel at will. For ePTZ operation instructions, please refer to Navigate a Fisheye Camera Channel on page 35. 43 www.acti.
MNR-310 User’s Manual Search by Time If you simply want to skim through the footage record around a certain time, you can start by locating the specific time on the time bar. 1. Double-click on your desired channel or drag it to the display window. The channel view will appear in the window. 2. On Playback Control Bar, click , and specify the target date and time on the calendar window, and then click “Apply”. 3. The time bar will immediately locate the target time. 1 3 2 44 www.acti.
MNR-310 User’s Manual Search by Event Type If you are clear about (1) When (2) as which event type (3) Where the incident happened, you will not need to drag on time bar all the way to the spot. The event search tool can sort out the video clips that match your criteria. 1. Double-click on your desired channel or drag it to the display window. The channel view will appear in the window. 2. Drag time bar to the target time. 3. On Search Tool panel, two search tools will appear, click 1 3 2 4.
MNR-310 User’s Manual Search by Video Analytics NVR server is equipped with two useful video analytics that can perform advanced search – Motion and Tamper. Motion - Unlike the typical motion detection method, this motion video analytics algorithm can detect a maximum of six regions in a view, including rectangle regions and polygon regions. Tamper - A camera that has been tampered with is not able to serve its purpose.
MNR-310 User’s Manual Multiple results that occurred within a single second will 4 be count as one result. By enabling this, this search will analyze the view 6 5 using higher number of pixels (default is 320x240). It is suggested that you only enable this when you consider obtaining more results. 7. After this filter is created, draw the regions on the channel view.
MNR-310 User’s Manual If the area you want to mark does not fit to the form of a rectangle, you may also choose to draw a polygon by selecting the icon. To draw the lines for the sides of your polygon, click your cursor to mark the endpoints of each line. Double-click on the final endpoint of the final line to confirm and highlight the polygon in light blue, as shown in the illustration below. Make sure your lines connect (a minimum of three lines) to form a closed shape. x2 8.
MNR-310 User’s Manual View Search Results The search results will then start being generated in thumbnails in Search Result Viewer window. However, it might take a few seconds if a large number of results are found. The thumbnails are listed in sequential order, left-to-right and top-to-bottom. You can drag on the Search Result Viewer to your desired time to find the snapshots of the incidents.
MNR-310 User’s Manual The event card list will be displayed in the Search Tool panel. You can click to browse throuth the event list, or duoblie-click on an event card to start playing this event. To return to thumbnail view, click . 50 www.acti.
MNR-310 User’s Manual Take a Snapshot of the Playback View You may take a snapshot of a channel live image on Live view screen. The snapshot will be saved to default folder on your client computer as .jpg format (The system default location is Windows Desktop). You may find the location path on the bottom of NVR window after taking a snapshot. 51 www.acti.
MNR-310 User’s Manual Export the Recordings NVR playback offers two choices of video format for the exported video. The *.raw file, as the original video file format captured from video source, is able to be played on ACTi Archive Player. You may download the this utility from http://www.acti.com/downloadcenter The*.AVI file, as The most widely adopted video format on Windows system, can be instantly transferred by NVR server and played directly in Windows Media Player.
MNR-310 User’s Manual Set the Export Video Settings You may export video with or without defining the time duration beforehand since you can configure all the settings on Export Video window. On Search Result Tool bar, click to enter the window. 1. Select the devices. If more than one device are selected, you will get multiple recordings. 2. Set the time duration. The minimum duration is 10 seconds, maximum is 1 hour.
MNR-310 User’s Manual 5. This exported video can be saved to your current client computer. Please choose the location. By default, the files will be saved to Desktop. 6. Click “Apply” to start file converting and exporting. The export process window will appear. In the Device column displays the processed/ total number of video clips of that device. You may also observe the remaining processing time of each device’s video files.
