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How to Backup Footage to a Flash Drive

Tuesday, September 27th, 2011

SecurityCameraKing.com: In this video I will show you how to backup footage from a DVR to your Flash drive.  The same procedure is for a DVD/CD.  It’s the same procedure the only thing is going to be that you have to use the DVD-R in order for you to record or to backup footage from the DVR.

To start we’re going to log into the DVR.

The first thing you’re going to do is plug in the Flash drive in this case because the Flash drive has to be formatted.  You’re going to plug it in to one of the USB ports on your DVR and go to the main menu, go to “Backup.”

Make sure that the device is showing up there or the Flash drive is showing up there make sure it is checked and hit “Erase.”

Confirm the format of the drive, ok, and the drive has been formatted to a partition that the DVR recognizes.  Click “OK,” right click to go to the main menu again and hit “Search,” here is the search interface

You’re going to click the little clock to open up the calendar, and you choose your date.  Automatically it will show the files that have been recorded based on the date.  If you want to be specific, it depends upon how your DVR is recording, in my case it’s recording 24/7 so you can be specific on the time if it’s recording based on motion.

If you wanted to look for something that happened at 9:50 you just put that time and if the DVR records something at that time it will show up here in this column over here.  So I’m going to have choose a different time, 9:00 AM, “All” is for all the events or all the type of files that you want to look for.  This portion over here is the channels that you can choose to look footage.  If you click the arrow you will see all the channels that your DVR has, if it has four it will show only four, if it has 16 it will show all the 16 channels.  I’m interested on channel one and channel two.  The rest you can mask by clicking this option here.  And this option over here will show you when you click play it will show you the four channels at the same time based on this time.  Only four channels whatever you specify here.  So if I specify 1,2,10, and 15 and choose this option four, when I hit play it will show four channels or four windows viewing based on this channels that I’m choosing here and based on this time.  Now in my case I don’t have any other cameras plugged in there and I can choose as well all.  So it will play all 16 channels in one window at this specific time.  And this option I cannot click on it because it’s basically going to show up footage based on this time when I hit play.  I can show right there . . .and there it is.  So go back up and right click and you go back to the main menu of the search.  I’m going to choose “Four” for the channels one and two.  I mean this option you have to choose four in order to choose every individual channel.  If you choose all this option you will no longer be able to click or choose whatever you want there.  So I’ll choose “Four” and choose the “Magnifying Glass” and there are my two footage.  Basically if you are interested in this two files that you want to back up you click this check…check these boxes over here and click the floppy drive.   Then make sure your USB disk is showing up here under device and just basically choose the files you want to backup, and just hit Start.  A progress bar will show up here.

Basically with the newer DVRs with the HDMI port and the newest firmware you don’t need the player to use on your computer.  The player will be downloaded to your Flash drive from the DVR itself.  So you can plug that into your computer and play the files right there.  If you don’t have the DVRs with the HDMI port you have to download the player in order for you to play those files that you downloaded to your Flash drive.  You can download this player by going to “support.techprosecurity.com/forms” type on the search bar “player” and download that folder and just install it on your computer and you will be able to play the files on your computer.   So I’m just going to finish this video by saying this is easy to do the same procedure is with the CD or DVDs it will show up here of course using a DVD has more space up to at least four gigabytes if you are using a single layer DVD.  The DVDs have to be “-R” (DVD-R) we haven’t tested with the +R and actually we don’t recommend it to use a +R.  So if you are interested you can use DVD-R or any Flash drive with 2 Gigs or more of space.   I hope this has been informative for you and I would like to thank you for viewing.

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How to Use the Review Footage Feature on Your Elite or Ultimate DVR

Tuesday, September 27th, 2011

Security Camera King.com.  How to Use the Review Footage Feature on Your Elite or Ultimate DVR.

First you would right click, and you’ll see there a search button.

Click the search button and that will bring up your review window.

Across the bar here you’ll see a number of features which include the ability to place in a time or date:

Or you can select your date from the “Date” selection button:

Once you’ve selected your time or date that you would like to review from, you may also select at this time the cameras you want to review by number.

You’ll see now, in the right window, there’s a number of selection bars for video or you can click the review window which will bring up a new list of camera to see from that date and time:

You may also scroll up and down this list by using your center rolling button.  Once you’ve decided that you would like to select a video from either your first or second camera using the tabs at the top you simply double click on the selections.

This will bring up the footage from that time:

If you’d like to see either video, in a full screen you may double click it.  This will bring up the full screen:

If you’d like to see and even larger version of this screen you may double click again and that will bring up a full, full, screen:

Once you’ve decided that you’re finished reviewing, you may right click and that will back you out of the full screen and right click again to return to the two window view.  Once you have completed reviewing footage you may right click again and that will help you exit.  At any time you may select a different camera at a different time and double click and that will bring the new footage up.   And that is a very easy way of reviewing footage on your Elite or Ultimate package DVR from Security Camera King.com.

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How to Connect Cameras to the DVR

Tuesday, September 27th, 2011

Security Camera King.com, how to connect your security cameras to your DVR

First you want to find the proper inputs on your DVR.

Depending on the number of channels on your DVR, these will be numbered “1 through 4,” “1 through 8,” “1 through 9,” or “1 through 16.”  Also be careful not to accidentally connect to your audio inputs or perhaps the call monitor out.

Once you have selected the proper place to connect your cabling from your camera, you’ll want to take the BNC and slide it gently onto the connector at the DVR.

You’ll find that this slides on very easily and once you’ve gotten it on, you’ll want to twist it just slightly until it locks in place.  Once this has been accomplished you have correctly attached your camera to your DVR.

There’s also on your plug and play cable the power end.  The power end is very simply attached to the end of flying power lead.  That will connect your power by sliding it on.

For instructions on how to connect the other end of the flying power lead please refer to our “How to Connect Flying Power Leads to Your Power Box” video.

This has been “How to Connect Camera to the DVR” from Security Camera King.com.

 

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How To Install a Dome Camera

Tuesday, September 27th, 2011

This is a video demonstration of how to install a vandal dome infrared security camera that comes in our packages. This is the box that the camera comes in.

Included with the box is the instruction manual as well as the accessories which include the screws and the vandal dome security camera itself.

And now we’re going to go ahead and install the camera and what were going to do is we are going to first unscrew the housing.

Once you unscrew it, the housing will separate and in addition you’ll be able to actually remove the camera from the mounting housing itself, then what you’ll want to do is go ahead and place the housing on the wall where you want to install the camera.  And then go ahead and place your screws then screw them into the wall.

First you’ll just screw one screw into the wall, and then . . .we’ll go ahead and screw that one screw in . . .

You’ll notice it’s very easy to install, it’s almost self-explanatory.  The camera housing is made out of aluminum.  It is indoor/outdoor rated, all weather, IP66.

Now you can go ahead and run your cable through the housing and as you run that you’ll bring the camera back up and then you’ll just suspend it in place . . .

Once you place the cord into the flush mounting the channels that are setup for the flush mounting.  Then you can go ahead and place your next screw and tighten down the housing.

For video demonstration purposes we’ll just go ahead and use two screws normally you would go ahead and mount it with four.

You can position the camera in almost any direction that you choose.  You always want to put it with the LED, the red LED pointed up and the rest pointed down.  Then you’ll just go ahead and screw in the housing itself.

No special tools are required.  And then you can put the finishing touches of the positioning of the lens before you completely tighten it down.

Then that is the complete installation of one vandal dome infrared security camera.  And you’ll notice that we have this one pointed here in this direction but it can be pointed in any direction at all.

 

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Common Issues With IR (Infrared) Dome Security Cameras

Monday, September 26th, 2011

Common issues with IR Dome Cameras

This is a demonstration of issues you might find with IR Dome Cameras.

  1. If you noticed in this snapshot, you will see white spots around the image. This is caused when the lens is pointed straight up almost at 90 degrees. The lights are OFF and the IR’s are to close to the edge of the vandal dome housing. The light from the IR’s are bouncing back producing this issue.

Figure 1

Demonstration of camera been to closed to the edge of the camera dome cover

Figure 2

To fix this issue you must move the camera lens down to a point that the IR LEDs are not close to the edge of the dome cover. After you have the camera positioned away from the edge of the cover, the image should look like this:

Figure 3

  1. Another issue you might encounter after mounting this type of cameras are smudges and haze in the image. This issue is caused by having finger prints or dirt in the clear cover of the dome camera. This is an example of how it will look like when the dome is dirty:

Figure 4

I will be cleaning the surface of the camera with a microfiber cloth. It is recommended to use this type of cloth to clean the camera, because it will prevent scratches that might cause the IR’s to bounce back.

Right about to clean the camera

Camera image after cleaning the cover

There are many other issues that can cause IR reflection or bounce back. This includes:

  • The dome cover is not bolted in tight enough.

  • The rubber seal between the lens and the dome cover is not flush against the clear dome cover.

  • Another IR camera is in the field of view of this security camera and is causing white out areas.

  • There is a reflective surface above, below or in front of the security camera that is reflecting the IR light back into the camera.


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