 One of the reasons we like the Unify NVR system so much is it's ease of use. It's very easy for our clients to be able to pull the files out themselves to be able to get data they want out of the system and they don't have to use some weird proprietary video conversion format plugins or anything. All the data in here is actually very standardized so you can export it and literally upload it to Facebook, you can upload it to YouTube, you can copy it to a thumb drive, and I'm gonna show how that works really quick. So right here we're on the main page with the cameras and I'm gonna get my head out of the way here and we can see live feeds of the cameras or we can go to the live view you know to see the different videos. But we want to cover right here is two things timeline and recordings. So the cameras are set to motion record. The nice thing about the way motion recording works on these cameras is when you're going into the camera settings, and we'll jump back to the cameras real quick here, front camera, resolution, the options, because I'm playing with some of the override settings, you can tweak them a little bit like there, but I'm gonna go here recording, record motion only, and I set it to the highest resolution. And then you can configure the motion detection, and this is a couple things that are really cool. So I have seconds to record before and seconds to record after. Now what it's doing is it actually records all the time but throws away all the video that didn't have anything happening. This saves a lot of the space on the MVR, and this is also what makes it tricky to just simply calculate NVR record times. Back in the days of VCR and VR's, it was easy. The tape was so long, it recorded all the time. That's how much data it would hold. Because this is always recording, but then throwing away data without motion, it takes up space based on how much motion there is. This is a, like I said, a very big difference and also makes it a little bit trickier to calculate how much storage time you need. If there's a lot of motion going on in this particular field of view, that particular camera is going to require more storage than another camera that has less motion going on. So that being said, we can also tell it to record 10 seconds before the motion, 30 seconds after. So these are the different delay settings, and you can configure them, and then you can configure motion sensitivity places, which I'm not going to get into too much, but this allows you to choose different zones that you can pick and choose to say block out or block for different motion. So once you get this determined, and you know it's set to record, how do you get the files out, and how do you find them? Well, this is actually pretty simple. It's right here's recordings, and we want the date we get today chosen, but let's narrow it down to specifically just today. Actually, today's the 14th, so I chose the wrong day. So 14th, 14th, between these times, I think I got here between then, there we go, but then between, there we go, you set the range, and these are all the motion events, and we can now stop through and play these motion events. So let's look at, so at 948, 942, it was like when I got here. So 933 when I decided to stop by the office here, and I can just hit play. Okay, that's actually when I went back out. That's not when I got here, so let's go back a little further. Here's where I pulled up, because I'm not in the camera. Now this camera also gets triggered by the cars going by, because I don't have that blocked out in the motion, but there I am, and this is the video where the person arrived working for, which is me, and then we just click, let me move my face out of the way, make sure you can see this. We click the download button, and that's it. There we go, there's that file. MP4 format, here, with audio, and you can probably listen and notice, and I'll just pick up the mic. Give me my scooter. And that's it. That's standard MP4 played with really any player. Now a couple of things, you can lock the motion here, so I can lock the video, which means don't auto-purchase. We have our system is set to purge after 90 days. So this will keep it from purging, and this, if you didn't see this little icon here, it's kind of small, that's showing where the motion is. So it's determining what motion I picked up, so right here and right here. So that helps you find what the motion trigger was, and then we want a good look at this guy's face. So figure out the frame that has the best face, probably right here, where I'm just about to take off my helmet, and you go here, and what we did, we made a JPEG of it. So now, if you have something you want to pull out of that camera, you have a snapshot that you pulled out. So this is, maybe I want to see where's a better one, maybe right here a little closer. There we go, and then we'll grab this, another snapshot. And we're just JPEGs, nothing proprietary. You didn't have to do anything, and now you can play with these in a photo editor or say, have you seen this guy? So this is really handy. And it's one of the reasons we like to unify so much is it just makes this type of work a lot easier, so the customers can go through and find what they want. We have a company with a bunch of trailers that they come in out, they do trailer service, and they put a lot of the surveillance cameras up to see the trailers that come in, and that way if someone says, hey, there's a big scratch on here, one in that scratch kit here. That's actually easy for them to find. They can go through here, they can group the cameras together, find the motion, find when that trailer moved because it watches across the lot and find the specific time when perhaps that scratch occurred on that trailer, and they can roll through and see when it came in and roll back up and see when it left and take a look. Now, you can also select what specific camera here. We can look at the front camera now. So we selected front camera, selected outside west. When you have a bunch of cameras, as you select them, they all show up right here. You can also distinguish between full-time recording types or motion recording types. You can also distinguish between locked and unlocked. So if we go through and we lock a recording and we want to find it later, you can quickly filter and find those locked recordings, which is really handy. If you have someone going through and go, I don't know if this is an issue or not, but I'll go ahead and mark these as locked because I may want them, and then you realize a week later it was an issue. You can just go back and find them really quickly. Now, the other thing you can do is use the timeline, which is in beta, but it actually works pretty well. A timeline allows you to group the motion events together. So here's me coming in. We'll go through back a little bit here. It sends the motion, and then it's going to show the motion events right here. So it's going to have... Right there, I'm going to fast forward a little bit. Move this up here so you can see these. So these are the different motion events that are going on in the different recordings. So you can see how the time hops a little bit up here. It also lets you play back at a faster speed, which is, of course, really handy when you're dealing with this. Same thing, you get to download and you can do things with it. It also has some keyboard shortcuts, so you can zoom in, zoom out, increase, decrease speed, etc., etc. Now, when you're doing this, you can also shift through and you can see how the timeline events are here. Now, this is where it gets pretty cool because if you go, I need all these motion events. I need to know all the ones that were going on. Well, the system actually lets you highlight them, and we'll highlight like this group of videos right here, and then we export them. Now, when you highlight a group of videos, depending on the speed of your NVR, this could take a minute. I've had this where people just try to export way too many at a time. If you don't have a fast enough NVR, this takes a long time. Now, you notice it has actually a zip file. So when you open up the zip file, there are all of the cameras with the time indexes grouped together. So same thing, still standard MP4, but it zips and exports them. So it makes it really simple to go through and find this. Now, also on the timeline here, I'm going to go ahead and stop selecting. You can still choose the date, shows you the date here, and let's go back to what was going on on Monday, and what were those trigger events. So we'll figure out what time Tom got here on Monday, because I don't remember now. No, I had to go somewhere, but I was here early and play through these. There we go. This is when I wandered into work. Nope, that's me locking the door. So I was actually leaving here at 818 because I had somewhere to go. So we'll go back a little further, but you can kind of get the idea of how this system works. Now, when you're doing this timeline view, it only does do one camera at a time. So actually, this looks really cool when you see, okay, here's where I pulled up in the truck. This is that motion event and walking up. So 8x seems to be 4x works, 8x works, 16x, a little slow on my NVR. We don't have a lot of resources dedicated to it. We only got two cores for this particular one. But you can get an idea how it works. It's really simple to pull the data out. It's really easy just to export it, standard MP4 format. So no proprietary weird conversion. So if you have an incident and you need that incident, you know, given over to law enforcement or you just want to, in a case for restaurants, they've used it to pull off the, when people do the dining dash, they simply download the video and say, hey, these people, these are the people that did the thing. And they don't really need us to do it because it's all standard formats that you can upload anywhere. So hopefully this helps. And if you're curious about that with the NVRs, you can rest easy thinking knowing that all these recordings are saved in a non-proprietary standard format. Now go ahead and hit the subscribe and the bell icon that lets YouTube know that you're interested in notifications. Hopefully they send them as we've learned with YouTube. 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