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AXIS Camera Explorer - ACE User’s Guide Contents Licensing I nformation What is ACE and What Can it Do? Installing ACE Adding a Camera Adding an Album Adding a Quad View Object Camera Switching Recordin g a Movie Saving a Snapshot Working with Movies Creating an AVI-movie Live Video Sites Other Setting s and Functions Licensing I nformation ACE i[...]

Installing ACE Before You Start Before insta lling your new software you must f irst set your ca mera’s IP-address. Please refer to the Installation Guide for your camera fo r more information. Installation Click the setup file for the program. You will be asked where you want to install the pr ogram. Restart your computer if you are asked to. Ch[...]

Adding a Camera Click on Add . The right hand side of Explorer will now show a further five options – Add Album , Add Cam era, Add Camera Switching, Add Liv e Video Sit e and Add Quad View . Click Add Cam er a and a Wizard guiding you throug h the installation will star t. Enter the IP-address or D NS name of your camera and then click Next .[...]

You will then see a window containing informatio n about the camera found at that address. Th e resolution can be chan ged by clicking the drop-down arrow, as can the camera number. If for some reason you have changed the HTTP port address in the camer a itself, you must specify the new port in the field provided.[...]

If identific ation fails, click Choose to manually provide the information for the camer a. You can now renam e your camera to an ything you like. This name will appear in Windows Explorer. Click Fi ni sh .[...]

Your camera now appe ars in Windows Explorer. Click the icon for your camera and a live feed fr om it will be presented in the right hand window. Note: If you experience problems adding a camer a, please refer to the documentation supplied with your camera for more inf ormation about installing and setting the camera’s IP-address.[...]

Adding an Album An album is a “virtual director y” that allows you to easily view and manage your images and movies. Back in the Explorer window, Click Add and then on Add Album . Complete the dialogs, specifying whic h folder will contain your images and fina lly, give your album a name. Clic k Fi ni s h and you will then see your album in Exp[...]

Adding a Quad View Object ACE includes a fe ature t hat allows you to view the live feeds from up to 4 video sources simultaneously. This is called a Quad View obj ect, and it is added in the same way as a came ra or an album. Simply specify the cameras that will be inc luded in the Quad View and give the view a name. Click the Add button and then [...]

By right-clicking on the image you will see a context menu, from which you can choose to Display Names or not, and wheth er or not to use a Limited F ram e Rate . This last option is useful if you are experien cing bandwidth problems and need to decrease the frame rate i n the images. The other two options available in the context menu are R etain [...]

Camera Switch ing Camera Switc hing is when you let ACE alter nate between the camera fee ds it displays. To do this you need to add a SwitchCam object, which is done in the same wa y as for cameras, albums, etc. Click the Add button and then click on Add C amera Switc hing . The following dialog appears: Select the c ameras you want to display the[...]

Recording a Movie Click on your camera to open the image in the right hand window. Now right-click on the ima ge and a short menu will a ppear. Click Record to record a movie. The resulting dialog asks you where you want to save your rec ordings, which frame rate you want to use, and for how long you want to record. Spec ify the folder you used ear[...]

When setting the frame rate a nd recording period, remembe r that recording for long periods a nd at high frame rates will creat e very large numbers of files and take up a lot of disk space. The file prefix “sequence” is used to save images as movies. Click OK . A new recording window now appea rs and the recording starts. When the set period [...]

Working wi th Movies Movie files created with ACE are sav ed with the extension .sqj. These files onl y represent a group of image file s and they will not affect your individual ima ges in any way. Sqj-files may be viewed in the Album you created earlier. Although you will initially only see the sq j movie file presented in the window, it is also [...]

Other Settings and F unc tions Shortc uts If you click on Network Cameras in the left h and window of Explorer you will then see all the installed cameras and Al bums on the right hand side. Right-click and drag an y item onto your desktop and create a shor tcut to it. Right-click Menu Right clic king on a Camera, Album or Live Video Site in Explor[...]

Pan/Tilt/Zoom If you have a Pan/Tilt/Zoom (PTZ) device connect ed to your camera, this can be controlled directl y from the image display in Windows Explorer. The mouse is used to perfo rm the following operations: • To center the image, click a nywhere in the imag e. • To return “Home” doubl e- click the wheel or mid dle (third) button on [...]