Hi everyone, Mike from CCTV Camera Pros here. In this video, I'm going to show you how to set
up the video surveillance recording schedule on Viewtron security camera DVRs. This is applicable
to both the Viewtron NVRs for IP cameras as well as the Viewtron hybrid DVRs for BNC security
cameras. Afterwards, I'm going to talk about some of the slight differences between the NVRs
and DVRs. The interface is the same but there are some small differences that I want to point out.
Okay, so here's the live security camera display on the Viewtron NVR at our office and to access
the recording settings, I'm going to click on the Start button in the lower left and then
select Settings and then on this main setting screen I'm going to click record. By default
when you get these out of the box, all of the recording is going to be on, the 24 by 7 record,
motion recording, sensor recording, and in the case of NVRs, AI recording. The AI recording is
only applicable to the Viewtron NVRs, and you could see the different recording modes here,
motion, sensor, motion record plus sensor, 24 by 7 record plus motion record,
so on and so forth. And when you change those modes, that's applicable to all of
the cameras on the system. This is if you want all cameras to be on the same recording mode.
Now if you want to set up different modes for different cameras, then you hit this mode dropdown
box and select Customization. What that does now is that breaks up each camera so that you can set
up different schedules for each camera. So for example, our license plate recognition camera,
I might want that only to record on AI detection. So when a license plate is detected,
but timed recording to be off. But this dome camera that we have in our office,
I want that different. I want that set up to be on a time schedule 24 by 7 for example
and AI maybe. And so you could see there's three default recording schedules, 24 by 7, 24 hours a
day during the weekdays and 24 hours a day on weekends. That's what those three are
and you could come under here to the schedule management and set up custom time schedules, so
you can add one and name it whatever you want. I'm not going to through that, basically you name it
and then you can pick and choose all the different times for every day of the week, all custom.
Okay, so back to the record mode. I'm going to switch that back to Auto and I just wanted
to mention what I use at the office on our Viewtron NVR is I use Always On 24 by 7 plus AI.
All of the cameras that we have here in the office are AI security cameras, so I do 24 by 7 recording
plus AI and you'll notice when you switch the modes, it's going to pull up this screen so you
can choose the resolution, the frame rate, the quality, and the bit rate, and whether audio is
on or off if that's applicable to the cameras you have, and then you can have different settings for
the 24 by 7 schedule so for example if I want to save some hard drive space and have the quality
lower on the 24 by 7 recording but then when there is an AI event, I want that bumped up
to the highest. That's an option that you could do. You could also for example on this
schedule recording have audio off on one or more cameras but then when AI is triggered,
audio on, and you could change each one of these for both the schedule record and the AI record. I
just leave everything on the highest rate because we have plenty of hard drive space on these.
So now I'm going to go back out and show you what playback looks like real quick. so
we're back at the live view, and if I want to play back video, recorded video surveillance footage on
this system, I can select this Start button again and then select Playback. So that puts the NVR in
playback mode, it will look the same on a BNC DVR, and you'll notice it opened up this time scrubber
over here so I could jump to different points in time and it's displaying the AI events in light
blue. So you can uncheck these different types of recordings, none of these are applicable because
again I'm just doing 24 by 7 recording plus AI recording so the light blue and the dark blue,
and if I want to jump back to one of these AI events to see what happened, I can just select
on the time scrubber that point in time. So we'll go back and see what happened here,
and it was a car, this car here going through ... I have a detection zone set up here when vehicles
pass through, so that's what happened there. And then we'll jump to another event,
so we'll see what happened up here maybe, right here, and ... It must have been sooner than that.
Oh, that big truck went through the same area. So another motion event or AI object detection event
in that overview camera. When you're done playing back video, you click on this
X in the lower right, and that will bring you back to the live security camera display.
Next, I want to show you the slight difference on the user interface on the Viewtron DVRs.
So on the DVRs, when you select the manual mode,
the manual settings don't appear on that same screen, you have to click on this record schedule
link on the left and then you can individually set the schedules on a per camera basis.
I hope this video has been helpful in showing just how easy it is to set up the video's recording
schedule on Viewtron security camera DVRs. The UI on these is extremely easy to use, and if you
ever need help, our tech support staff is the best in the industry. If you want to learn more about
these Viewtron recorders, the NVRs and the DVRs, we also have a line of BNC cameras and IP cameras,
you can visit www.cctvcamerapros.com/viewtron and as always, if you have questions about
anything you saw here or anything related to security camera systems, feel free to
email me any time. I can be reached directly at mike@cctvcamerapros.net. Thank you for watching.