User manual AXIS CAMERA EXPLORER

[. . . ] You can also perform simple edits on your movies and create AVI-files for distribution. Installing ACE Before You Start Before installing your new software you must first set your camera's IP-address. Please refer to the Installation Guide for your camera for more information. Installation Click the setup file for the program. You will be asked where you want to install the program. Restart your computer if you are asked to. Check the Installation After the successful installation of ACE you will find a new icon in the folder list on the left side of Windows Explorer - Network Cameras. [. . . ] to record a movie, select the individual camera instead. Camera Switching Camera Switching is when you let ACE alternate between the camera feeds it displays. To do this you need to add a SwitchCam object, which is done in the same way as for cameras, albums, etc. Click the Add button and then click on Add Camera Switching. The following dialog appears: Select the cameras you want to display the images from. The 2 buttons at the lower right of the dialog allow you to Select All or Deselect All. Then specify the length of time in seconds that the images will be displayed for. In the next dialog window you are given the option of specifying a user name and password that must be provided when connecting to the cameras. ACE will then automatically log into the cameras. Note: The user name and password are specific for the cameras being viewed and will not prevent access to the Camera Switching object itself. If all of your cameras are password protected, it is a good idea to use the same user name and password for all your cameras. Otherwise you will have to log in to those cameras that ACE does not have the password for. Please refer to the camera's user manual or on-line help for details on how to set the camera's password. Provide a name for the Camera Switching object and then click Finish. Now click on your Camera Switching object and check that it runs as you intended. the cameras used, or the viewing time for each camera, right-click on the object (icon) in Explorer's right hand window and click Properties. Right-clicking and selecting Open will display the Camera Switching in a new window. There is no limit on how many cameras can be included in a Camera Switching object. Recording a Movie Click on your camera to open the image in the right hand window. Now right-click on the image and a short menu will appear. Click Record to record a movie. The resulting dialog asks you where you want to save your recordings, which frame rate you want to use, and for how long you want to record. Specify the folder you used earlier for your Album by clicking the Browse button, or alternatively, specify the Album directly, by clicking the Album button. Note: To save recordings to an Album, you must first define an album. See Adding an Album above. Album Browse When setting the frame rate and recording period, remember that recording for long periods and at high frame rates will create very large numbers of files and take up a lot of disk space. [. . . ] The AVI cannot be seen in the Album window in Explorer ­ go instead to the folder directly to view your created movie. Live Video Sites A Live Video Site is a feature that creates a window to a Web site displaying images from a camera. A special cgi-script is used to "push" the images to the client (viewer) and it is this cgi-script that the Live Video Site must point to. The camera must be also be configured to upload images to the Web server via ftp. For more information on cgi-scripts, please see the documentation for your camera or our Web site at www. axis. com. [. . . ]