Recordings: Fast, Simple Access to the Footage You Need
Find footage in just a few clicks with SEiNG’s AI-backed smart filters.
SEiNG features a self-learning AI model to classify, predict, and trace objects. This means that you no longer have to sit scrubbing footage for hours – instead, let SEiNG do it for you. This guide goes into how.
An overview of SEiNG’s smart filters
Once you have logged into SEiNG using Single Sign On, use the sidebar menu to navigate to Recordings (under the Monitoring heading). By default, SEiNG shows shortcuts to the 4 most recent days.
The green bar above the media windows lets you filter your footage. If you require a different date to those shown in the sidebar, you can select it from here.
Once you’ve set your date, select your devices. You can also apply additional filters. These filters appear as icons in the green bar, which reveal their names when you hover over them with your mouse:
- Sites: view all devices within a specific geographic location.
- Groups: view all devices within a group specified within your SEiNG settings.
- Devices: select individual devices
- Region: set a region within device field of view to search for certain object markers
- Categories: search by object counts or classifications
- Marker: filter by objects including:
- Pedestrian
- Car
- Cell phone
- Lorry
- Handbag
- Bus
- Cyclist
- Backpack
- Event: for word-based search if you have added notes to footage
- Tags: search for tags that have previously been assigned
- Sort: by newest or oldest
Once you’ve selected a date and device as minimum, SEiNG will load the relevant footage and display a timeline below the filter bar. To narrow the timeframe, click on a start point in the timeline and drag to your desired end time. SEiNG will then update the footage shown based on your selected timeframe and filters.
Managing your timeline
The timeline gives you a visual overview of activity across your devices, making it easy to identify patterns, spot incidents, and jump directly to important moments without wasting time.
For each device, your timeline will show periods of activity in green, and when an object has been detected by SEiNG’s AI model in yellow.
If you have multiple devices selected, scroll to view each timeline, or click and drag downward to expand the view and see multiple timelines at once.
You can pin certain devices to the top of your timeline by clicking the pin icon next to device name.
By default, the timeline displays a 24-hour view. Click the + button to zoom in and see a shorter period in more detail. Use the < and > arrows to move backward or forward through the timeline.
Managing your chart
SEiNG also offers a chart view of activity across your devices. Switch to chart view by clicking on timeline, then chart from the drop down.
Your chart will show a full day of activity across your selected devices.
Each device will display as a different colour, so you can quickly see which cameras are busiest and when. You can see the key if you hover over the chart, as well as object counts in the given period.
Footage review in SEiNG
Once you have selected your filters, SEiNG will instantly pull up media matching the criteria.
Each media window shows:
- Footage: quickly review by dragging your mouse across the scrub bar, or click the window to play the media
- Date and time of the footage
- The site and camera name, labelled in the top right corner
- Length of the media in seconds, labelled in the bottom right corner
- Icons, so you can quickly identify markers
View footage in full screen mode by double clicking the media window. Close full screen by double clicking again or pressing escape on your keyboard.
Detail preview
Click the icons on your media window to open a preview of details.
- Use the skip buttons to jump forward or backward in the video
- If enabled through your cameras, turn on sound using the audio toggle
- View full screen by double clicking or use the expand button in the bottom right corner
- Click “Live” to view real-time footage
- View object classifications (markers) such as cars, lorries, or pedestrians
- View object counts and heatmaps
- Get context by reviewing earlier footage from the selected device, or those across the site and group
- Add a description
- View device name and status
Using the grey Actions button, you can:
- View context: see media around this recording. By default, SEiNG will show you footage across the selected site or group, +/- 5 minutes. Adjust using the filters at the top of the Context pop up.
- Copy video URL for quick, simple sharing
- Verify video: if you have previously downloaded the media, SEiNG can analyse the metadata to detect signs of tampering or alterations
- Share recording via email
- Add a Case
Click the grey Details button or alternatively, the green arrow icon at the bottom right of the media window within Recordings, for a full screen version of the details overview preview.
Sharing video
There are 3 ways to share footage from SEiNG.
- Cases: a built-in investigation management tool. View Guide.
- Copy Video URL: get a tamper proof temporary link to footage.
- Share recording: this provides you with a custom link, sent via email. With this option, you can add a title and notes.
Verifying video
If you have previously downloaded footage as evidence and want to ensure it hasn’t been manipulated, use SEiNG’s built in CCTV video verification tool.
- There are 3 ways to navigate to the tool:
- Visit SEiNG.ai/verification
- Click “Verify a Recording” under “Help & Support” in SEiNG’s sidebar menu
- Click “Verify Video” in the actions drop down when you’ve selected media in Recordings
- Select the source: either add a URL to the media, or upload a file
- Click the green “Verify” button. SEiNG will process the recording and validate its signature
- If valid, a green “Recording is valid” bar will appear. If not, the bar will be red and say “Recording is not valid”.
If you scroll down, you’ll be able to see the metadata SEiNG assesses.
Filters in practice: example scenario
Imagine we want to find footage of a member of staff using a mobile phone at the top the stairs between 9-10am.
1. Select the date of the incident.
2. Set the device.
3. The timeline now will appear. Narrow down the timeframe. 4. Select “Cell Phone” under markers
5. Your footage will appear. Review quickly by dragging your mouse along the scrub bar. Double click to view full screen.
6. When you’ve found the footage you need, click the green button to view more details, add notes, share the footage or create a case.
7. Say we want to share the footage by email:
- Click “Share recording”
- Give it a title, add a short description under “Notes”, and add the email recipients.
- Click “Share”.
We have now found and shared the recording in just a few clicks.
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