View: Operator Guide
5.2.2Motion Threshold
Options can be ignored
The simplest way to obtain a report of motion in the video is to click Search after clicking Fetch; see procedure 50 in 5.2, above. Use of Motion Threshold or Masking that Detects Motion, explained in this section and 5.2.3, are optional. If this is your first
Sensitivity. Threshold for reporting movement. Moving the slider right of center picks up smaller movements. Setting the slider to the far left turns off motion search. Slider range of magnitudes: 1 to 100.
Interval. Minimum amount of time, in seconds, between reports. Two or more occurrences of movement within the interval are reported as a single item in the motion search report. Adjust the interval as needed. Range: 1’’ to 9999’’ (or 2h:46’:39’’).
Fig. 41. Detection options toolbar: Sensitivity and Interval.
5.2.3Masking that Detects Motion
You can focus View to search for motion only on areas of the video that you mask.
Mask buttons
Show / Hide masking grid. Toggle for the presence/absence of a grid overlay on the video image, to help select the area(s) used to search for motion.
Show / Hide mask and Enable/ Disable mask edit. Toggle, to search for motion using either a partial area (mask) or the full area of a video image. When enabled, only the areas that you have masked are searched for motion. See figure 42. Procedure !52, below, explains how to focus motion search on part of a video feed. The mask(s) can also be shown during the playback of video, in a Motion Search session. To save a mask, see 5.7.1, Repeating a Motion Search, on
