Search

Search allows you to search recorded video for motion or alarms in specific areas. Symphony will search based on your criteria and create a mini movie and thumbnails showing the results. For example, you may search for all activity around a car for the last 24 hours. Symphony will create a video only containing activity which occurred in the blue highlighted area (which may result in a 5 minute movie, depending on how much activity was found).

To access the Search dialog, select Search > Search from Symphony Client or click CTRL-F from the keyboard..

To perform a search perform the following:

From the Analytics Engines section, select the engine. Depending on which engine is selected, different search options will be available.
Using VE150 as an example, select Draw to mark the area of interest for searching. The area in blue will be searched for activity. To erase the blue area, select Erase. The Size slider adjusts the size of the brush when marking or unmarking the image. Alternatively, digital fences can be used as the search criteria. Select Any fence to draw a digital fences. Selecting All fences denotes that the object must pass through all fence lines to result in resulting search video.
Optional: Select the Class of object you wish to search for, such as People, Vehicles or Unknown objects (unknown objects are objects that were tracked but were not classified as people or vehicles).
Optional: Select the Behavior to filter by, such as loitering.
Specify your Search Type. Enter the date and time range. Other Advanced settings:

One Time Search

The search will only be performed once using the date range you selected. In the above example, Symphony will search for all activity between July 29 7:38pm and July 30 7:38pm.

Specified Interval Search

You can specify to search between a date and time range. For example, if we configured the dialog as shown to the right, Symphony would search between July 26 and July 30, but only between 6:38pm and 7:38pm

Recurring Search

Selecting Recurring Search allows you to specify a search which Symphony will continuously perform until you end it. Using the example below, Symphony will always search between 18:00 and 8:00 each day. This option may be useful if you want automated searches done at specific times for review.

If the Search is being conducted against a PTZ camera, select the Home Position to search in. Home Positions are configured in the Camera Tour.
Click Search to start search. The View Search Results dialog will now open.

Advanced Search Options (optional)

By clicking Advanced, other options appear.

A user defined Title for the search can be defined, as well as an Email address (to notify a user the search is complete). Further, the Seconds before clip and Seconds after clip can be modified by entering a numeric value which represents the seconds before or after the event Symphony should begin to play the resulting video.
Specify your Search For criteria.

Everything	Selecting the Everything Radio button will not filter any video. The resulting movie will include all frames between the "From" and "To" Search times (see below).
Any Movement	In the above example, Symphony will search for all activity between July 11 4:33pm and July 12 4:33pm.
Alarms Only	Selecting the Alarms Only radio button will allow the user to select which specific events to search for as defined by the Rules (see Rules for more information). The user will specify which Rules to search for in the Advanced Search Options area.

Events allow you to combine different search events in order to further filter the results. For example, you can search for people loitering AND cars parking within 60 seconds, and only these combined events would be displayed in the search results.