Yes, exacqVision’s Auto Export profiles allow you to automatically burn a specified video event to a writable CD, DVD, or USB thumb drive. This function can easily be associated with a soft trigger button in the exacqVision Desktop Client using Event Linking.
CD/DVD writing is a one-time operation for each export. If using a USB thumb drive, Auto Export may be performed multiple times up to the drive capacity.
Auto Export is performed on the server, so the media you choose must be inserted into the NVR, not your Client workstation.
View our User Training Videos on Auto Export and Event Linking, or refer to the exacqVision User Manual for more information
NOTE: Enterprise licensing is required to create child maps.
To create a child map, open the ExacqVision Desktop Client and complete the following steps:
Click the Maps node on the navigation tree to open the Maps page.<br><br>
From the maps tree, click to highlight an existing map you wish to be the parent map to the child map you are about to create.<br><br>
Click the New button below the maps list panel.<br><br>
Name the child map.<br><br>
Give the map a description (optional).<br><br>
Click Map Image and load the image you want to use.<br><br>
You also have the option of using the Add Icon button to upload a thumbnail image to display in the map tree for this map. The icon drop-down allows you to select from previously used icons.<br><br>
From the Available Items panel drag the appropriate cameras to their position in the map.<br> NOTE: You may also drag input triggers, soft triggers, output alarms, audio devices, serial data streams, web panels, and access control integrations onto maps.<br><br>
Click Apply.<br> NOTE: If you do not add at least one device to the map, you cannot click Apply.<br><br>
The parent map now lists this map as a child map.<br><br>
Repeat steps 2-9 to create additional child maps. <br><br>
Returning to the parent map, you may drag the child map from your list of Available Items onto it allowing users to navigate from the parent to the child map.
The following table contains information about the recommended codecs when exporting video from the exacqVision Client or ePlayer to *.avi format for playback in Windows Media Player or *.mov format for playback in Quicktime on Windows or Mac platforms. In Windows and Linux, video exported in either *.avi or *.mov format can also be played back using VLC without requiring any codecs that are not installed by default with VLC.
Giving domain users administrative rights on local machine
On the local machine: Control Panel > Administrative Tools > Computer Management (be sure to run as an existing admin) > Local Users and Groups > Groups > Administrators > Add > Advanced > Find Now > double click the Active Directory user(s) you wish to grant local admin rights to, or simply add the “Domain Users” group so that any AD users who login at that machine will have local admin priviledges. Click OK three times.
Or skip all the clicking and simply issue the following command:
net localgroup administrators “domain_name\Domain Users” /add
The following languages are supported in exacqVision Client as of November 11, 2009:
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NOTE: To view the client software in the target language, simply change the Windows language and then run the client software.
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Afrikaans Arabic Chinese Danish Dutch/Flemish French French Canadian Greek Hebrew Hungarian Japanese Korean Norwegian (Bokmål and Nynorsk) Polish Portuguese Russian Serbian Slovak Slovene Spanish (Castilian) Spanish (Venezuelan) Spanish (Chilean) Swedish
All exacqVision video is timestamped in UTC, so there is no ambiguity as to the absolute time when the video was recorded. When exporting video, the time zone of the system on which the video was recorded is not stored. Starting with exacqVision version 3.4, two features were added to make this more transparent to the operators:
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In exacqVision Client, an onscreen display shows the server time zone (in offset from UTC) along with the timestamp. If this option is not configured for the camera, the timestamp is shown in the client’s local time.
In ePlayer, the timestamp of the recorded video is shown in the time zone of the local computer on which it is playing, but the time zone offset is shown. Thus, if you watch a video on a computer set to EDT, you might see 2:00 (GMT-4:00), whereas the same video viewed on a computer in CDT would show 1:00 (GMT-5:00). The UTC timestamp is the same in both cases. Knowledge of the physical location of the recording server, which is clearly needed for evidentiary purposes, can correlate the local time of the machine on which the video is being watched to the local time of the server on which it was recorded.
On a Windows-based Exacq NVR, video exported from the exacqVision Client is saved by default to the “exacqVision Files” directory in Documents for the current Windows user. A Windows user logged as a Kiosk user, or logged in to a restricted operating system account cannot select a different directory when saving the exported file, but Windows users with Administrator privileges can select another directory.
On a Windows machine, an administrator may change the default export location within the Windows registry.
WARNING: Only experienced administrators should edit the registry. Incorrect edits can cause drastic changes in the operating system or the OS may fail to work altogether if the wrong keys are changed. Before you edit the registry you should export a copy of the key(s) you plan to change so that this can be restored if problems are encountered.
To change the default export location edit the following key/value pair.
Operating systems display text in the form of glyphs. You can view these on Windows systems using the included Character Map tool. Each character is a glyph; a visual set of pixels that represents a character. While this method is easy to display, it could result in text with a “jagged” appearance depending on your monitor and settings. In the case of small text this may cause the text to be difficult to read. Similarly, some languages may use characters with many closely placed lines that may be difficult to read.
The characters shown below are the of the same font and font size. Characters on top have no font smoothing. Characters on the bottom have font smoothing enabled. (Enlarged for illustrative purposes.)
Different solutions have been created over time to help resolve this issue and depend somewhat on your operating system.
Anti-aliasing utilizes pixels of varying opacity to “smooth” the curves and edges of each glyph. However, on low resolution monitors very small text begins to appear blurry. For this reason, it was not used by Mac or Windows on small text.
Font smoothing was created to address some of the issues with anti-aliasing. Font smoothing uses sub-pixel rendering, which Microsoft calls ClearType. Sub-pixel rendering directly controls the red, green, and blue components of the millions of pixels in LCD monitors to emulate a resolution three times larger than normal. Microsoft windows provides font smoothing, using ClearType, on Windows 7, 8, 10, and 11.
An advantage to disabling font smoothing is that when the ExacqVision Desktop Client is using VGA Acceleration, the on-screen display (OSD) can appear sharper on top of the video.
Enabling / Disabling Font Smoothing via Client on Windows.
Click on the Client node from the navigation tree within the client’s Configuration mode. Toggle the Disable Windows Font Smoothing checkbox (pictured).
Enabling / Disabling Font Smoothing via Windows OS
To affect font smoothing system-wide. Click the Windows Start menu button and search for ‘ClearType’. Select the ‘Adjust ClearType text’ result. Follow the prompts from Windows to adjust as desired.
