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6.1 SEARCH OVERVIEW
The DVR unit has several options that allow you to easily search through, and find, a particular section of video.
From Motion indexing and Sensor indexing to calendar views showing which days have recorded video, the DVR
unit is equipped to help you quickly find what you’re looking for.
The following chapter will describe in detail how to use the DVR Search features.
1 Screen Division Buttons The Screen Division buttons allow you to view one or more sets of cameras
at a time. (See Screen Division Buttons in the DVR Basics chapter).
2 Hour Control Bar The Hour Selector displays the hours for a given day 0 to 24. Move the Slide
Bar Selector to select an hour you wish to view.
3 Minute Control Bar The Minute Selector displays the minutes for a selected hour 0 to 60. Move
the Slide Bar Selector to select the time in minutes you wish to view.
4 Date Box Displays the date and time off the current video being viewed and allows
selection of a new date to be searched.
5 Speed Move the Slide Bar to increase and decrease the playback speed of video.
6 Play Controls These options allow you to control playback of video being viewed.
7 Storage Capacity The Storage Capacity Usage Indicator displays the total free storage space
available to the DVR unit. When the Storage Capacity reaches 100%, the
DVR unit begins to rewrite over the older, saved video.
8 Zoom Increases the size of the image (up to full screen).
9 Bright Adjusts the brightness of the selected camera.
10 Camera Allows you to enable (or disable) selected cameras to perform searches on.
11 Exit Exits search and returns to the Main Menu page.
12 Object The Object Search allows you to specify a region on an image and perform a
search based on any motion that has occurred within that region.
13 Preview The Preview search is a Search option that allows you to narrow down
recorded video in a 24 Hour period. It breaks down a single day into 24
images, one image for each hour of the day (The images are taken from the
first second of each hour). When an image is selected, the ‘hour’ chosen is
then broken down into 6 images, one image for every 10 minute increment.
Finally when another image is selected, 10 images are displayed, one for