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Thank you for purchasing the HDVR high-performance network digital video recorder. This manual was
written to help you install your HDVR hardware and software. Your new system supports both analog
and IP cameras individually or simultaneously. It is designed to preserve any investment you already
have in analog cameras while providing you the ability to migrate to new network-based IP camera
technology.
Regardless of your camera technology, HDVR offers you the most advanced video networking,
recording and surveillance technology available in the market today.
Product Description
The Hybrid Digital video recorder ("HDVR") is a next generation high-performance, H.264 30 images
per second per channel security solution. The HDVR systems features 480 images per second 16
channel and 960 ips 32 channel H.264 hardware compression with video motion detection, event based
recording, and relay output controls. Networking capabilities allow local and remote administration,
playback, and export using a common PC or Mac client application. The HDVR supports a mix of
analog and IP cameras with the same intuitive interface. Flexible high speed searches include time and
date, event, and smart pixel searching. The HDVR offers users a highly intuitive and ergonomically
designed interface that provides simple and efficient access to all setup and operation functions.
Video Recording Overview
The fundamental functionality of the HDVR is to record video from analog or IP cameras so that if
there's a breach of security you can quickly and easily search and find the video that will help to solve
your security problem. There are many additional features and configuration settings that provide you
with tools to customize your system to your specific requirements; however searching recorded video is
a fundamental feature of the system. Understanding the basic video recording settings is important in
order to take full advantage of this powerful video security solution. You will find a detailed description
with diagrams explaining how to configure the video recording settings in the Software Setup section of
this manual. Before we go there, here's a brief overview of the three video recording settings.
Motion Detection Recording - Video is only recorded when the HDVR System detects motion in the
camera's field of view. This is a very efficient method of recording because if the system doesn't detect
motion, video is not recorded saving a tremendous amount of disk capacity and extending the recording
time. Motion detection recording is configured on the Schedule Setup screen.
Continuous video recording (also known as free run recording) records every video image all the time
for the specified schedule you have set for the camera. Continuous recording is configured on the
Schedule Setup screen.
Event Recording provides a method of linking different types of events such as input triggers, point of
sale data, and loss of a video signal or video motion to cause an action such as recording video. There
are additional action types that can be linked to the event types on the Event Linking screen.
Connecting a door sensor to a trigger input on the HDVR and linking it to a camera to automatically
record video upon tripping the sensor is an example of how you might configure event recording.
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