Good morning, everyone.
Mike, from CCTV Camera Pros here.
Today, I want to show you how to export recorded video surveillance footage using my Viewtron
home security camera system.
And I'm going to show you two ways to do this.
I use this camera that you see behind me to monitor my driveway.
And I have an intrusion detection zone set up after hours.
I turned it on during the day right now.
So I can go through this example.
But basically if anyone comes into my driveway late at night, that gets bookmarked as an
event on the NVR and I can easily go back and search through those events.
So I'm going to grab one of those intrusion events and export that recorded video surveillance
footage to a USB thumb drive.
That's using the AI cameras on my house.
The second way I'm going to show you, and the second way is applicable to all types
of security cameras, IP and BNC cameras using our Viewtron system, is simply playing back
video using the timeline scrubber on the DVR, and then selecting a segment of video that
could be a segment from one camera or multiple cameras, and then exporting that video surveillance
footage to the thumb drive.
I'm going to jump over to the NVR now and run through it.
Here's the live security camera display on my NVR, and I'm going to be controlling everything
right now with the USB mouse.
This is the camera that I'm going to play back the record video from, the one that monitors
my driveway.
So the first thing I'm going to do is from the main menu, I'm going to select intelligent
analytics.
This is the screen where you can select all the different types of AI events that occurred.
So I'm going to select today's date and I'm going to select my driveway camera.
And then I have an intrusion detection zone basically around my driveway.
So the type of event I'm looking for is intrusion.
This is now going to display a thumbnail image of all the events that occurred of that type
and during that timeframe.
And if you tap on one of these thumbnails, it shows a small playback window in the lower
left.
But what I want to do is select one and open the full screen video player.
That's what I'm doing now.
So I'm going to make note of when this event started.
That's why I paused the video there for a second.
It started around 8:42 AM, and then I'm just going to watch the event and basically make
a mental note of when the event ended so I know the timeframe that I want to select for
the video export.
So when I'm ready to do that, I'm going to pause the video.
And then you'll notice there's this timeline scrubber over here on the left.
And I can basically click and drag the mouse over a timeframe on that timeline scrubber
to select a segment of time that's recorded.
Once I select the timeframe, I can click this backup button and then select backup.
I already have a USB thumb drive inserted into the front USB port on the NVR.
So that's the device here.
That's my USB thumb drive.
And I have a whole bunch of stuff on there.
So I'm going to create a new folder for this export.
And I'm just going to name this folder, seven, one for July 1st, and we'll call it seven
one event.
Once that folder is created, I'm going to select it as the destination for this video
export and then click backup.
Sorry, one other thing.
For the video format, I'm going to select AVI because I want to play this back on my
Mac.
And if I export an AVI, then I can play back this video on Windows and Mac, whereas the
private format exports a video player, but that portable player that it exports only
works on Windows.
So if you want to play back on Mac and Windows, select AVI.
AVI also makes it more easier to send to third parties because it's kind of a universal format.
They won't need any specific type of player.
It'll work again on Windows and Mac.
So it's going to take about a minute for this to export.
Depending on how large your export is, it could take a decent amount of time for larger
ones.
You can tap the run in background button here if you want to just put that in the background
and do other things on the NVR.
I'm just going to speed up the video here for a second to get through this.
When the export is done, you can click on the exit X in the lower right-hand corner
and then close out the intelligent analytics screen.
That'll bring you back to the live view.
I want to show you another way to export video.
So you can open up this playback screen and I'm going to change the display from the single
camera view to the multi-camera view, because I basically want to show you here that last
time we selected one camera export.
So now I'm going to select all four of these.
So the same process, you select all four cameras and the timeframe and then click that backup
button.
I didn't go over this before.
The first screen that displays here, it shows you the start time and the end time that you
selected, the total duration and the total size that's going to take up on the drive
that you're exporting to.
And I'm not actually going to run this back up, but the process as you could see is the
same from this point forward, you select the camera's, select the timeframe and then click
back up.
If I did this, it would open up that screen where I can select the destination on my thumb
drive.
Okay, I'm going to jump over to my MacBook computer now.
And what I did was I took the USB thumb drive out of the port of the DVR, inserted it into
the USB drive from my MacBook.
And I just copied the video file to my desktop.
You could see it here.
So I'm going to right click on it now and open with the VLC player.
We found that the VLC player, this is a free open source video player for Mac and Windows,
is really compatible with all the different video formats out there and does a really
good job.
So this is what we use and recommend to customers to playback video on Mac.
You can see, I can use this bar down here to move the video forward and reverse to get
to the exact point that I want to get to.
So I'm just jumping around a little bit.
Again, we're playing back the export video now on my MacBook.
It would look just the same on Windows.
I could use the VLC player also on Windows to play back this exported video.
And you could see the quality is quite good.
As you could see exporting recorded video surveillance footage on Viewtron, DVRs, and
NVRs is extremely easy, point and click with the mouse.
That's one of the reasons why we love these systems and why they have become our best-selling
systems.
If you have any questions about any of this or anything related to video surveillance,
please feel free to reach out to me anytime.
I can be reached at mike@cctvcamerapros.net.
If you want to learn more about these Viewtron security camera systems, we have DVRs, NVRs,
IP cameras, BNC cameras, 1080p resolution, four megapixel, and 4K resolution, Dome, Bullet,
all kinds of styles.
We have LPR cameras, really solutions for any home, business, or government application.
For more information on this, please visit www.cctvcamerapros.com/Viewtron.
Thank you for watching.