TRANSCENDENT VMS VIEWER FOR MAC OS X VITEK • Multiple location monitoring of up to 2,000 total cameras! • Supports up to 20 simultaneous screens with up to 100 cameras per screen for full video matrix wall support • Offloading of encrypted video from a central management location • Fully customizable enterprise level user & group permissions • Versatile eMap screen configurations • Independent prerecorded camera playback with simultaneous live viewing in multi view display format Specifications & install
Transcendent Series: VMS for Mac OS X Contents 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Software Introduction ........................................................................................................................................ 3 1.1 Summary ................................................................................................................................................ 3 1.2 Install and Uninstall ..............................................................................................
Transcendent Series: VMS for Mac OS X 8.1 Search log ............................................................................................................................................ 31 8.2 Log Maintenance ................................................................................................................................. 31 8.3 Export ..................................................................................................................................................
Transcendent Series: VMS for Mac OS X 1 Software Introduction In this chapter, you will read a detailed introduction of the operation environment, install & uninstall of this software. 1.1 Summary Transcendent MAC VMS is a Network Management Software, a powerful utility that allows you to control multiple recorders using one computer.
Transcendent Series: VMS for Mac OS X Select the disk you want to install the software and click【Continue】. Input the name and password of your computer and then click【Install Software】 button to install. After the software is successfully installed, click【Close】to end.
Transcendent Series: VMS for Mac OS X 2 Login Software 2.1 Login First time login: ① The first time you run the Transcendent Mac VMS, you need to register a super administrator. Enter a Username and Password. ② To avoid forgetting the password, you can set some questions to help you find the password quickly. ③ After you input your username, password and set the questions and answers, click【Register】to register the super administrator. Input the username and password created by you.
Transcendent Series: VMS for Mac OS X 2.2 Control Panel Instruction The control panel of Transcendent Mac VMS is shown below. There are five areas in the main interface of this software. The descriptions of each area are as follows： Area Description Area Description 1 Function Area 2 Tab Bar—to display the operated functions 3 Menu Bar 4 Alarm Information List.
Transcendent Series: VMS for Mac OS X User Management: To add, modify, delete user and user permission. Local Log: To search, view and backup local log. Basic: To setup record partition and path, system startup and maintenance & backup and restoration. Alarm Management: To add or remove the sensor of a area; To setup alarm trigger and modify the area of the sensor.
Transcendent Series: VMS for Mac OS X 3 Device Management In the control panel, click Device or icon to enter the device management interface. 3.1 Add Device Click button to enter the interface. ① Select device type and input device name; ② Input IP address or domain, port of the device and then enter its user name and password. ③ Create an area. If you haven’t created an area, click “Create a New Area” to create one. ④ Check “Upload bandwidth more than 2M” according to the actual network situation.
Transcendent Series: VMS for Mac OS X want IP camera to connect server” and input Transcendent Mac VMS Address, Port and Device ID. Input the Device ID according to the device ID of DVR or IP camera device. Add Online Devices Click button to automatically search online devices in the local network. Click a device to display its basic information. Double click it to add it. If the device is added, this device will be hidden in the search device interface. 3.
Transcendent Series: VMS for Mac OS X Note: Checking or not checking it will affect the stream choice of live preview. Change Basic Configuration Click “Change Basic Configuration” to pop up a dialog box. You can change the basic configuration of device and check “Permission Check” or “Record Coverage” according to the actual situation. Change Time Configuration Click “Change Time Configuration” to enter the interface. Change the time and date if needed.
Transcendent Series: VMS for Mac OS X who are logging into the device. Email Configuration Click “Email Configuration” to enter the interface. You can configure the basic parameters of Email. DDNS Configuration Click “DDNS Configuration” to enter. You can configure the basic parameters of DDNS. 3.3 Area and Camera Management In the control panel, click “Change Camera Settings” under Device to enter the interface. You can modify or delete the area and manage the cameras.
Transcendent Series: VMS for Mac OS X 3.3.2 Camera Management A real-time image will be displayed after selecting a camera. You can setup the parameters of this camera. Image Settings Image settings include “Image video parameter”, “Image quality” and “Image display”. Click “Image video parameters” to enter the interface. ① Adjust the brightness, contrast, saturation and chroma of the image. ② Clicking 【Restore Default】 button will restore the above parameters to factory default settings.
Transcendent Series: VMS for Mac OS X The picture of setting schedule record of system: Click icon and move the cursor to select the time. Click icon to delete the selected time. Clicking “Manually” to manually input time Click “All” / “reverse” to quickly select the time. Click “Empty” to clear all the time. Motion Detection Alarm Settings Click “Area and Sensitivity” under Motion Detection Alarm Setting to enter the interface. ① Drag slide bar to set the sensitivity value.
Transcendent Series: VMS for Mac OS X Click “System Trigger” under Motion Detection Alarm Setting to enter the interface. Under the system linkage, check “Trigger to Play Audio File”. If the motion alarm of a certain channel is triggered, there will be a sound like “beep”. Click 【Trigger the Big Screen】 button to select channel. If the motion alarm of the selected channel is triggered, the selected camera will pop up full screen. Video Loss Alarm Settings Click “Video Loss” to enter the interface.
Transcendent Series: VMS for Mac OS X The definitions of the buttons are below: Buttons Description Directional arrows for dome movement Drag the slider bar to adjust rotation speed of the dome Focus button. Click obtain short focus Iris button. Click button to obtain long focus. Click button to open iris. Click Zoom button. Click button to zoom in. click button to button to close iris.
Transcendent Series: VMS for Mac OS X dialog window, click【OK】button to remove the camera. 4 Group and Scheme Setting In the interface of control panel, click “Group and Scheme Setting” to enter the interface. Please refer to the below picture: 4.1 Create, Change or Delete the Camera Group In the above interface, click button to create a group. Select a group in the group list, click to delete it. button Select a group and click button to enter the interface as shown on the right.
Transcendent Series: VMS for Mac OS X 4.2 Add or Remove the Camera Group ① Select a group and click button to enter the interface. Then click “Add or Remove the Camera Group” to pop up the window as shown on the right. ② Check cameras on the left and click button to add the selected cameras to the group on the right. ③ Check cameras on the right, then click to remove them from the group. button 4.3 Create, Change or Delete Group Dwell Scheme Scheme is used for dwelling group by group.
Transcendent Series: VMS for Mac OS X Check group on the left and click button to add the selected group to the scheme on the right. Check group under scheme on the right and click button to remove the group. 5 Live Preview In the interface of control panel, click “Live Preview” to enter the interface: Buttons description of live preview: Toolbar on the display window: Icon Description Icon Description Close image Snap Start/stop talk PTZ control.
Transcendent Series: VMS for Mac OS X Configuration Camera configuration Start talk Start or stop talk PTZ Control To display the control panel of PTZ Stream Choose stream to view. Close Preview Close single channel preview Enable Audio Enable or close audio 5.1 Preview 5.1.1 Monitor Point Preview To start the live preview, drag the cameras from the list to the right display window or select a window and double-click the camera to display the live image.
Transcendent Series: VMS for Mac OS X Stop Group Dwell Right click the display window to select “Close Preview” to close preview of this channel or click the main menu bar to close all windows for stopping dwell. 5.2.2 icon on Scheme Dwell Preview Start Scheme Dwell In the interface of live preview, click shortcut on the left side and then drag a scheme to the right window to dwell ( icon stands for scheme).
Transcendent Series: VMS for Mac OS X Note：To achieve dwell between devices, the device should be as a unit when adding groups. Then add all the groups into one scheme to dwell. Stop Scheme Dwell Click icon to close all the windows for stopping scheme dwell. 5.3 Preview Control Single Channel in Full Screen Double click the selected window to view in full screen. Double click again to recover the window. Stream of Live Preview Right click on the display window to choose recording stream.
Transcendent Series: VMS for Mac OS X Click image. icon on the toolbar in the displaying window to zoom in the image; click icon to recover the 5.4 Snap 5.4.1 Snap Click button on the toolbar of the selected channel or right click to choose “Snap” to capture the pictures. After snapping pictures, a message prompt box will pop up to remind you the pictures are captured successfully and where the pictures are stored. Note: Capturing pictures only in live preview or playback. 5.4.
Transcendent Series: VMS for Mac OS X Clicking the button of the live preview interface to choose “Tab View” can embed this tab in main interface. Note：1. 20 live preview tabs can be added. 2. Live preview interface can be displayed on multiple screens. 5.6 Talk and Broadcast 5.6.1 Talk Click button on display window or right click to pop up a menu bar. Choose “Start Talk” to enable bidirectional audio.
Transcendent Series: VMS for Mac OS X 5.7 PTZ Control 5.7.1 Parameter Configuration of PTZ Please confirm the parameter of PTZ has been configured correctly before operating PTZ. Click icon in display window or “Change Camera Setting” under “Device” to enter the interface. Click “PTZ Setting” to enable PTZ and setup protocol, baud rate and address of PTZ. Note: Here the protocol, baud rate and address of PTZ must be consistent with the PTZ decoder. 5.7.
Transcendent Series: VMS for Mac OS X 6 Playback Management In the interface of control panel, click “Playback” to enter the interface. You can play back the recorded files saved in the HDD of the device. You can play the recordings of multiple channels. Additionally, all those recordings are played at the same time point automatically. Buttons Description of Area 2 Icon Description Screen mode. 1,4,9,16,25 channels are optional Close playback of all channels Play Pause Stop Playback by single frame.
Transcendent Series: VMS for Mac OS X Open/close audio Zoom in Fit to window Right button functions: Menu Description Snap picture Snap Close Channel Menu Enable Audio Description Enable or close audio Close single channel preview In the playback interface, select the screen, date and channel and then click button to search the recorded files. After the recorded files are searched, click button to playback.
Transcendent Series: VMS for Mac OS X Select record channel, start time and end time, checkmark event type and then click【Record Search】button to search record information. After the information is searched, a backup information window will pop up by clicking【Download】button. Click【Browse】button to choose save path. Then click【OK】button to download record. 6.
Transcendent Series: VMS for Mac OS X 7 Alarm Management 7.1 Sensor Alarm In the control panel, click “Alarm Management” to enter the interface. Add or Remove Sensor of the Area In the interface of Alarm Management, choose an area, click interface. button to enter the ① Check the sensor under the area on the right and click button to move out the sensor. ② Check the sensor on the left and click to add sensor.
Transcendent Series: VMS for Mac OS X Alarm Trigger Setup In the interface of Alarm Management, choose a sensor and click “Set Alarm Trigger” button to enter the interface. If checking “Trigger Alarm Playback”, there will be a sound like “beep” on an alarm. Add Associated Preview Camera Click to pop up a window; check cameras and click【OK】 button to save the setting. When sensor alarm is triggered, the alarm preview and e-map preview will popup automatically.
Transcendent Series: VMS for Mac OS X 7.4.1 Alarm Preview Configuration Motion Detection Alarm: In the control panel, click “Change Camera Settings” under Device to enter the interface. Select a camera, and then click “System trigger” shortcut under Motion Detection Alarm Settings to pop up a window; click 【Trigger the Big Screen】 button under system linkage to select channel.
Transcendent Series: VMS for Mac OS X 8 Local Log In the interface of control panel, click “Local Log” to enter the interface. 8.1 Search log Choose main type, sub type, set the start time and end time and then click【Inquire】button to search the relevant log information. click【First page】 【Previous】 【Next】 【Last page】to view the information on different pages. 8.2 Log Maintenance In the log interface, click button to pop up a dialog window.
Transcendent Series: VMS for Mac OS X 9 User Management In the interface of control panel, click “User Management” to enter the interface. There is only one super user registered by you when logging in the system for the first time. You can add several users and set rights for them through the function of “Set Account Right”. 9.
Transcendent Series: VMS for Mac OS X Operator only has the permissions of broadcast, searching and exporting log. If you have checked “Default Permission” under initial permission when creating new account, all the resource permissions and system permissions will be added for the user. Change Account In the interface of User Management, select a user and click button to enter the interface. You can change account name, password, e-mail address, etc.
Transcendent Series: VMS for Mac OS X System Permission Click “System Permission” to enter the interface, you can set the right of broadcast, searching log information and exporting it for the user you selected. Restore Default Permission In the interface of account right management, select a user and click default permission of this user. to restore Clear Permission In the interface of account right management, select a user and click permission.
Transcendent Series: VMS for Mac OS X 10 Basic In the interface of control panel, click “Basic” to enter the interface. Here, you can set up the path of backup and snap file, as well as backup and restore. 10.1 Location and Path Path of backup file: Click the shortcut menu in the above interface to set the backup path. Path of snap file: Click the shortcut menu in the above interface to set the snap path. 10.
Transcendent Series: VMS for Mac OS X 10.3 Manually Trigger the Alarm Output In the control panel, click “Manual Alarm Output” under Basic Configuration to enter the interface. Check “Enable”; select a corresponding device and alarm output; then edit a name for it. Then an icon will appear at the right bottom of the software. Clicking this icon will trigger the alarm of selected device.
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