LevelOne FCS-8004 User manual

IP CamSecure
User’s Manual
Copyright (c) 2006 Digital Data Communications Co., Ltd. All Rights Reserved.
Ver. 1.00-0609

INSTALLATION.................................................................................................................................................................................3
MINIMUM SYSTEM REQUIREMENT.................................................................................................................................................3
INSTALL IPCAMERA(S)....................................................................................................................................................................3
INSTALL CAPTURE CARD(S).............................................................................................................................................................3
IPCAMSECURE INSTALLATION.......................................................................................................................................................4
MAIN CONSOLE...............................................................................................................................................................................5
PLAYBACK.......................................................................................................................................................................................10
TOWITHDRAW THE RECORD .........................................................................................................................................................13
SEARCH MODE...............................................................................................................................................................................14
ENHANCEMENT..............................................................................................................................................................................20
SAVE VIDEO /SAVE IMAGE ............................................................................................................................................................21
PRINT /BACKUP.............................................................................................................................................................................22
LOGVIEWER..................................................................................................................................................................................23
SCHEDULE.......................................................................................................................................................................................27
ENCODING OPTIONS PANEL ..........................................................................................................................................................30
GUARD..............................................................................................................................................................................................34
EVENT ............................................................................................................................................................................................35
ACTION ..........................................................................................................................................................................................51
CONFIGURATION..........................................................................................................................................................................53
MONITOR DISPLAY ........................................................................................................................................................................66
COUNTINGAPPLICATION...............................................................................................................................................................68
LOGVIEWER..................................................................................................................................................................................69
BACKUP..........................................................................................................................................................................................72
LIVE STREAMING SERVER.............................................................................................................................................................76
LIVE STREAMING SERVER LOG INFORMATION.............................................................................................................................79
REMOTE PLAYBACK SERVER ........................................................................................................................................................80
LIVE VIEWER .................................................................................................................................................................................84

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Installation
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Installation
Minimum System Requirement
IP CamSecure FCS-8004
CPU Intel Pentium D 930 Intel P4 2.4 GHz
RAM 1 GB 512 MB
Mother-
board Intel 845 or 865 chip, Intel Chipset recommended
Display ATI Radeon 9200, nVIDIA GeForce FX-5200, Intel 845G/865G, or
above (ATI recommended)
Hard Disk 80 GB or above
OS MS Windows 2000 / XP
Install IP camera(s)
Step 1: Set up the IP camera referring to the quick installation guide provided.
Step 2: Check the network between the IP camera and the system.
Step 3: Add the IP camera to the system. See details on later pages.
Install capture card(s)
Step1: Insert the card onto an empty PCI slot. Connect the Audio/Video Cable to the connector in
the same color.
Step 2: Turn on your PC and start Windows.
Step 3: Insert the included Software CD into CD-ROM.
Step 4: Run SetupDrv.exe from the CD-ROM driver/ directory to install the Capture Card driver.
Step 5: Run dxdiag.exe from start menu ‘Start-> Run’ to check your DirectX version. If the installed
version is less than 9.0, install DirectX 9.0 from the CD-ROM directx9/ directory.
Step 6: After driver being installed, restart your PC.

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IP CamSecure Installation
Run Setup.exe from the CD-ROM root directory and follow the onscreen instruction to complete
installation.
Custom Setup Type:
You may install the system to the directory of
your preference and choose which feature
you want to install to the PC.
Hint: You may, for instance, install only
Playback and/or LiveView on the PC at
home or other remote site from which you do
not install the camera but are going to watch
them remotely.
**IP CamSecure Lite32 is free bundled with LevelOne IP camera and Capture Card.
** IP CamSecure professional version is available upon purchase. While using IP
CamSecure Pro32 ,please plug the included USB dongle into USB port as a license key.

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Main Console
The main operation system. To activate schedule recording, setup smart guard and configure
system setting.

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Exit: Shut down the main console or log out current user.
Minimize:Minimize the Main Console.
Screen Division: Allocate the sub-screen displays of cameras by clicking on the icon of desired
layout. Quick switch to single camera display by double click the particular sub-screen. Double click
the single camera display again to regain previous screen division layout.
Exit
Minimize
Screen Division Playback

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On Screen Menu:
Right click on the camera screen and get the On Screen Menu from
which you can Enable Move and Talk, and Connect / Disconnect the
camera.
Note: You can only work on current camera after clicking Enable
Move and Talk. With a PTZ camera locked, you may control it by
clicking the screen. You can also talk to a camera with the two-way
audio function.
Show Camera: You can also put another camera on the particular screen by selecting a camera
from the menu.
Toggle Fullscreen: Click and switch to full screen display.
Playback: Click the icon to get Playback Console. You can watch recorded video, search, adjust
image from records data, save video pictures and print images, check log in information, event
records and setup recording function configuration. See Playback in detail on later pages.
Playback

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Start: Click on the pull down menu to Start/Stop Schedule System, Start/Stop Smart Guard System,
Start/Stop Counting Application or click on Start/Stop Monitor All to activate/ deactivate all the
functions above. Stop alarm by clicking Open Event Report. You can also cancel all events by click
the Crystal Ball, see it in detail on later pages.
Note: The system will consider everything in the screen is normal when you click Start to activate
monitor function. Therefore, for example, if you want to detect Missing Object, be sure the object
that you want to protect is in its position when you click Start bottom.
Start
Crystal Ball

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Schedule:Schedule recording time table and setup recorder configuration. See Schedule in detail
on later pages.
Smart Guard: Add/edit type(s) of events which you want to detect; setup reaction(s) responding to
events. See Guard in detail on later pages.
Config: Setting, Save/Load Configuration, Counting Application, Log Viewer and Backup.
PTZ Camera Control: Control the movement of installed PTZ camera.
Information Window:Shows the system information including date, time, free HD space and
customized text. You can customize the setting of Information Window in Config > Setting >
General.
Crystal Ball: Indicates the working status of the system. In blue color rolling when system is
recording; in red when event detected. When the Crystal Ball is red, click it can you can cancel
event(s).
Schedule Smart Guard Config
PTZ Camera
Control
Information
Window
Crystal Ball

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Playback
Watch the recorded video, view and/or search for unusual events and recorded system information.
*There is only 1 channel displayed in Playback in IP CamSecure Lite32 while there are up to
16 channels displayed in IP CamSecure Pro32 simultaneously.

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Scroll Bar: Quick search on the video, drag it to where you want to review.
Exit: Turn off the Playback Console.
Minimize: Minimizes the playback Console window.
Control: Play, pause and stop the video.
Cue: Set up the Cue In and Cue out points of the clip you want to save as a video clip or a back up
file with all the information recorded (including log info, events reported and so on).Cue In and Cue
Out time will show on the Playback Information display once they are set.
Speed: Controls the play back speed, speed up and down.
Zoom:Zoom in and zoom out. You can get a close up view of the recorded video and move to the
spot you want to view by dragging the screen.
Scroll Bar
Exit
Minimize
Control Cue SpeedZoom

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Browse Mode:Play the recorded video.
Search Mode:Click on the Search Mode icon and get the Intelligent Search Tool panel. You can
setup unusual events here to detect abnormality that occurred during the video was recorded. To
setup unusual events, see this in detail on later pages.
Audio Volume Control: Adjust the sound level.
Date Time: By clicking on Date Time bottom, you can withdraw the video record that you want to
review. As you click on the Date Time bottom, a control panel will show up. Follow the instruction on
the next page to withdraw the record.
Browse Mode
Search Mode
Date Time
Audio Volume
Control
FWD/REV:
You can customize the
speeds on Setting panel.
Step FWD/REV:
Forward/reverse frame by
frame.

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Day-Time Panel
To withdraw the record
Step 1: From the window at the top left of the Day-Time Panel, select the date you want to check,
and you will see red/green lines show on the time table implying available recorded video.
Step 2: You can select the video clip you want to review by left-clicking and dragging to highlight the
time period. Besides using the time-table, you may indicate the time period of video that you want
to see by using the Start Time and End Time in Date Time Period section.
Step 3: In Select Camera(s) section, select the camera(s)/channel(s) from which you want to see
the video. You can select all the cameras by clicking Select All bottom.
Step 4: Check the box of Enable Preview to get the preview of the video you select.
Step 5: Click OK when you are satisfied with the setting.
Step 1
Step 2
Step 3
Step 4
Step 5

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Search Mode
Unusual Event - General Motion
Intelligent Search Tool panel:
Click on the Search Mode icon and get the Intelligent Search Tool
panel. You can setup unusual events here to detect abnormality that
occurred during the video was recorded.
There are 5 types of unusual events:
General Motion
Foreign Object
Missing Object
Lose Focus
Camera Occlusion
*IP CamSecure Lite32 only has General Motion option in Search
Mode.
General Motion: Detect any movement in the defined detection zone.
Define detection zone: To detect General Motion, you have to define a detection zone. Left-click
and drag, and draw a detection zone. You may define more than one zone on the screen by repeat
the process.

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Unusual Event - General Motion
Sensitivity: Click and move the control bar to the right to increase sensitivity, that is, a relatively
small movement will trigger the alarm. Move to the left to reduce the sensitivity of movement
detection. Set up an appropriate Sensitivity value will reduce the chance of false alarm. For
example, you can lower the Sensitivity to avoid the alarm being triggered by a swinging tree in the
breeze.
Interval: Click and move the control bar to the right to increase interval time, so that the alarm will
only be triggered when the movement lasts longer. Move to the left to reduce the interval time.
Stop when found: Check the box, and the video will stop at the point
when a motion in the detection zone is detected. Otherwise, the video will
keep rolling and all the events detected will show on the list in Search Re-
sult box. Click on the listed event date/time, you will jump to the point in
the video where a motion is detected.
Click on the listed event date/
time, you will jump to the point
in the video where a motion is
detected.

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Unusual Event - Foreign Object
Intelligent Search Tool panel:
Click on the Search Mode icon and get the Intelligent Search Tool
panel. You can setup unusual events here to detect abnormality that
occurred during the video was recorded.
Foreign Object: Alarm is set off when an object appears in the
defined area on the screen.
Define detection zone: To detect Foreign Object you have to define a detection zone. Left-click
and drag, draw a detection zone. Alarm will be triggered when an object appears in the detection
zone.
Define object size: Drag and draw a square on the screen to define the size of a foreign object.

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Unusual Event - Foreign Object
Sensitivity: Click and move the control bar to the right to increase sensitivity, that is, a relatively
small movement will trigger the alarm. Move to the left to reduce the sensitivity of movement
detection.
Interval: Click and move the control bar to the right to increase interval time, so that the alarm will
only be triggered when the object has been removed from the area for longer. Move to the left to
reduce the interval time. Set up an appropriate Interval value will reduce the chance of false alarm.
For example, you can lower the Interval to avoid the alarm being triggered by a pedestrian.

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Unusual Event - Missing Object
Intelligent Search Tool panel:
Click on the Search Mode icon and get the Intelligent Search Tool panel.
You can setup unusual events here to detect abnormality that occurred
during the video was recorded.
Missing Object: Alarm is set off when the defined object is removed
from the defined area on the screen.
Define detection zone: To detect Missing Object you have to define a
detection zone. Left-click and drag, draw a detection zone. Alarm will be triggered when the defined
object is removed from the detection zone.
Define object size: To tell the system how big the defined object is. Drag and draw a square on the
screen, on the object that you want to protect.

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Unusual Event - Missing Object / Lose Focus / Camera Occlusion
Sensitivity: Click and move the control bar to the right to increase sensitivity, that is, a relatively
small movement will trigger the alarm. Move to the left to reduce the sensitivity of movement
detection.
Interval: Click and move the control bar to the right to increase interval time, so that the alarm will
only be triggered when the object has been removed from the area for longer. Move to the left to
reduce the interval time.
Lose Focus: System will inform you when the camera(s) are losing focus.
Camera Occlusion: Alarms when any of the cameras is blocked.