Operation

1. Rayfin to connect and remotely control SubC Rayfin Camera
   Rayfin Camera controls are available in the DVR+O / SCI UI once the channel is connected to the Rayfin.

2. Capture Card to connect to a device that takes an HDMI video feed

3. IP Camera to connect to other brand IP Cameras or RTSP videos.
   There are no direct camera controls in the DVR+O/SCI UI for other brand cameras.
   RTSP URL syntax example rtsp://[username:password]@ip_address:[rtsp_port]/suffix

4. Orphie to connect to an Orphie brand IP camera

5. Presentations to connect to a streaming SubC Presentation (requires SubC Streaming Service)

6. Screen Capture to connect to the PC’s Screen display or Windows Capture to connect to an open application or browser Window.

7. Edge to connect to a SubC SecureEdge Server on your LAN

Each Input type is described in detail in Operation → Inputs.

Image Enhancement = Off

Image Enhancement = On

Video Full / Additional Screen - Click to open an additional window displaying the Channel video. Initially, the additional screen opens in full-screen mode. Click on the full-screen window to access controls to reduce the size and move this additional video window, for example, to display the video on another monitor.

See Menu for details on each menu item.

Folder/Filename Settings - Click to open the Folder/Filename Settings. Here you can browse to a File Explore Explorer window and select a Directory path in which to save your recordings, stills, and data and format your Directory Template, Filename Template and apply Tags.

Storage Mode selection has move to the Folder/ Filename Settings UI.

• Topside (DVR+O) - Videos and Stills will be stored in the selected directory on DVR+O system.

• Internal (Rayfin) - Videos and Stills will be stored in the selected directory on the Rayfin camera. Be sure to Click the “Set” button when selecting Internal (Rayfin) storage.

Directory - Displays the directory you specify to store your recording, data and still image files.

Click the Browse button if you wish to change this directory path.

Directory Template - Default is ${channelname}\${yyyy}\${MM}\${dd} however, you can modify this directory template as you wish.

Filename Template - Default is ${hh}${mm}${ss}_${fff} however, you can modify this filename template as you wish.

Tags allows users to have better control over their directory structure to keep like files together. This can speed up post processing time to get results more quickly.
You can add tags (such as channelname, Year\Month\Day &/or Hour\Minute\Second\Milliseconds) by placing the cursor anywhere you want the tag to appear on the Directory or Filename template paths, then select the desired tag from the Tags field drop-down list.

Note: When Storage Mode: Topside (DVR+O) is selected, Still / Framegrab (w/ Overlay) button are active. Overlays can be included in Stills and Videos saved to the Topside (DVR+O) storage.

When Storage Mode: Internal (Rayfin), Stills and Video will be saved to the Rayfin Internal storage drive. Enter your Directory and Filename settings:

• Still Directory Project-Name-Stills

• Still Filename still-${yyyy}${MM}${dd}-${HH}${mm}${ss}

• Recording Directory Project-Name-Videos

• Recording Filename video-${yyyy]${MM}${dd}-${HH}${mm}${ss}

• Tags yyyy

Note: When Storage Mode: Internal (Rayfin) is selected, Still / Framegrab (w/ Overlay) button is inactive. Overlays are not included in Stills & Videos saved to the Internal (Rayfin) storage.

Note: Folder/Filename Changes made through API command / Rayfin Visual Script Builder

If the Rayfin Internal Folder/Filename Settings are changed using API command / Rayfin Visual Script Builder, the DVR+O / SCI will detect that these changes were made and will show the following:

The camera reports that the directory and/or filenames have changed

Click Update button to accept these settings or click Discard button to dismiss and enter your preferred Rayfin Internal Folder/Filename Settings.

Review Media - Click to open Windows File Explorer to access the folders you have selected to save video recording, framegrabs and still image files for this Channel.

See Media Capture Wizard for more details.

If you click on the Review Media button but you have not yet selected a folder where you wish to save your videos & images, you’ll see the following message. In this case, click OK and select the Folder / Filenames Settings icon on the right to identify your folders.

Blackbox Start / Stop

Click to Start Blackbox Recording - Click the Recording toggle button to start and stop recording video on the current Channel.

Blackbox is Active

While recording, the Recording toggle button changes to a square and the Recording timer is presented. Click to stop Blackbox Recording.

Recording Start / Stop

Click to Start Recording - Click the Recording toggle button to start and stop recording video on the current Channel.

Recording is Active

While recording, the Recording toggle button changes to a square and the Recording timer is presented. Click to Stop Recording.

Take Still / Framegrab

Click the Camera button to take a Still image or Framegrab (while video recording) of the current Channel video.
If overlays are applied on the Channel(s), the overlays will also be included in the Still / Framegrab image file.

When the Input Type is Rayfin camera, you have the option to exclude Overlay (Still) or include Framegrab (w/Overlay) on the images. See Stills Settings - Rayfin.

Also note, you can trigger taking framegrabs on all Channels simultaneously from SubC Inspector

Take Still / Framegrab with RDI

When RDI is on and you click the Camera with RDI button, Stills will be continuously be taken until you stop by clicking the Camera with RDI button again.

Note: When Storage is set to Internal, Still / Framegrab (w/ Overlay) selection is inactive.

Stream Start

Click the Stream button to Start Streaming to a SubC Stream Server in the Cloud

The Stream toggle button will only appear if the SubC Streaming Service is activated for the PC hosting the DVR+O application. See How do I activate a new PC in Streaming service.

Stream is Active

The Stream toggle changes to indicate that Streaming is active. Click this button to Stop Streaming.

See the Streaming section in this manual for instruction on Streaming.

Stream to SecureEdge

Click the Edge button to stream the current DVR+O Channel to the SecureEdge Server.

The Edge toggle button will only appear if the DVR+O License on this host PC includes the Secure Edge license.

Streaming to SecureEdge

The Edge toggle changes to indicate that Channel is actively streaming to SecureEdge Server.

Click this button to Stop streaming to SecureEdge Server - Stream to .

See the SecureEdge section in this manual for instruction on configuring and using SubC Secure Edge.