Mirasys VMS 7.5 Spotter for Windows User Guide

Storyboards can be viewed with the regular Spotter client application or the separate, standalone Spotter Player executable that is also now exported as the default player for exported video.

Storyboard allows for example the following:

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Creating a movie-like viewing experience from surveillance video material

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Maintains complete material authenticity

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View material in the Storyboard in sequential playback mode or in an allcameras real-time mode

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Add clarifying comments and descriptions to activities

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Viewer for control of displaying of comments as subtitles

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Playback in continuous replay mode

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Navigation inside the Storyboard with the powerful time slider

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Save drafts and share the Storyboard to other system users

In addition to these, powerful features in the Spotter time slider make editing export

clips very easy. These are explained in the Export Mode Time Slider section.

A single Storyboard can contain a maximum of 63 camera streams.

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A storyboard is constructed from individual clips. These clips can contain up to 8 cameras, but for the most “movie like” experience, it is preferable to use a single camera per clip.

Clips can be added to a storyboard (and storyboard generation can be started) using various ways.

The camera toolbar has an export option “Add to storyboard” which directly opens the storyboard view and adds this camera there into a new clip.

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If the storyboard view is already open, a camera can be dragged into the empty black area to add another clip. This will assign the clip start time to be the same time as the previous clip end time, and copy the duration of the previous clip.

If the user wants to add a camera to an existing clip, the user can drag a camera from the device tab to on top of the existing clip.

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It is also possible to add a camera to the export time slider as when creating a normal clip, and then press the “Add to storyboard” button. This will create a new clip.

It is also possible to drag a camera to the storyboard directly from device tree, and also from motion search plugin

It is also possible to add devices attached to an alarm directly to the storyboard by selecting the alarm right click menu

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It should be noted that when a camera or clip is added to storyboard, it is next still in

“edit mode”. This is evident by the text entry fields for clip name and description being white.

The recommended way is to enter a clip name and description and then save the clip by pressing the green “Edit” button. Please note that there is a second “Save” button in the export time slider

– the “Add to storyboard” button changes to “Save” after adding the clip.

The created clips are shown in the time slider.

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