Hi there,
As this is my first post I´d like to start with thanking you for a great program.
The features I´d like to see in the future would be:
1. zoom option in the video clips on playback in search view.
2. Have the newest clip in search view at the top and the oldest at the bottom.
3. The possibility to download clips on your phone from the ios and android app.
4. Option to send clips from search view. Right-click and send.
That´s it for now. Will surely add some more soon.
Kind regards,
Kris
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ahallada - Posts: 35
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Re: zoom
I second all of these.
The ability to pause the video and save a captured pic in both iOS and OSX would be great. Capturing a pic or manually starting a recording would be great in live view with mouse command. Sending video clip via email or text is not that big of a deal, but would be cool on iOS. You can always just send off the pic or video after it is saved in pics folder of iOS.
The ability to pause the video and save a captured pic in both iOS and OSX would be great. Capturing a pic or manually starting a recording would be great in live view with mouse command. Sending video clip via email or text is not that big of a deal, but would be cool on iOS. You can always just send off the pic or video after it is saved in pics folder of iOS.
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ryan - Posts: 1015
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Re: zoom
Hi Kris,
Thanks for the feature requests. Certainly feel free to let us know as you have more and we'll take them all into consideration for future releases.
Best,
- ryan
Thanks for the feature requests. Certainly feel free to let us know as you have more and we'll take them all into consideration for future releases.
Best,
- ryan
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Semper Vaporo - Posts: 331
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Re: zoom
A couple of comments from another happy user about the wish list...
Item one can be simulated by using the "%windir%\system32\magnify.exe" program in Windows. (Dunno if MACs have such a program, but I bet there is probably one available somewhere.) The only problems with this are: 1) it takes a long time for memory in the computer to be re-arranged to get a big enough buffer to hold the screen image and the magnified portion to be displayed, so it is frustrating waiting for the magnifier to start working. And 2) it only magnifies the screen pixels, so additional resolution that MIGHT be available in the video stream is not used. It is useable to see things a little bit easier, but not as nice as maybe showing the original video stream in some much higher pixel per inch count.
Item two is something I disagree with. I don't read books from back to front and I don't scan lists from bottom to top... and I don't follow things in reverse chronological order too well. (If the list were upside-down, I'd expect the videos to be played backwards too, and that would never do! I'm joking, I'm joking!) I can understand that some folk see things differently and so might want the list in reverse chronological order, but please make it an option, so old fogies like me do not have to stand on our heads to use the program
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Also... I appreciate that the list remembers the last clip I viewed so that when I return to the Search view I can pick up where I left off and scan things since then.
I like to adjust the program window size such that the height of the list exposes not quite all of the bottom item. That way I can click on the bottom item to start the display of that video, and at the same time the list will scroll up one item, exposing a portion of the next item. I can just position the mouse over the last item and click to start viewing that clip. I usually can determine right away whether I want to see the whole thing, and if not, I can click again to proceed to the next clip right away. No need to move the mouse or manually scroll the list to the next clip.
With 5 cameras with near overlapping views of my property, I can quickly follow the path that someone took. Click once to see them enter, but there is no need to watch the whole clip at that time, so immediately click again to see the next camera view to tell which way they went, click again to see the next sequential clip of their route. Quick and easy to see what they were up to, innocuous utility meter-reader, a visitor that knocked on the door and left when I didn't answer, a poor lost soul, a person stuffing advertising into the door for my paper recycle bin, or someone up to no good. I know from which direction they came, where they went, what they did and which why they went when they left, all with just positioning the mouse once and clicking a few times.
I don't use the remote access features of Sighthound so I cannot comment about the need to download clips to other devices via remote access, but I can see where some would like that feature. I do copy clips to a USB memory stick sometimes using the Right-click, 'Export' function so I can understand the desire to add the ability to send a clip via FTP or e-mail from the same menu. Good idea!
Item one can be simulated by using the "%windir%\system32\magnify.exe" program in Windows. (Dunno if MACs have such a program, but I bet there is probably one available somewhere.) The only problems with this are: 1) it takes a long time for memory in the computer to be re-arranged to get a big enough buffer to hold the screen image and the magnified portion to be displayed, so it is frustrating waiting for the magnifier to start working. And 2) it only magnifies the screen pixels, so additional resolution that MIGHT be available in the video stream is not used. It is useable to see things a little bit easier, but not as nice as maybe showing the original video stream in some much higher pixel per inch count.
Item two is something I disagree with. I don't read books from back to front and I don't scan lists from bottom to top... and I don't follow things in reverse chronological order too well. (If the list were upside-down, I'd expect the videos to be played backwards too, and that would never do! I'm joking, I'm joking!) I can understand that some folk see things differently and so might want the list in reverse chronological order, but please make it an option, so old fogies like me do not have to stand on our heads to use the program
.Also... I appreciate that the list remembers the last clip I viewed so that when I return to the Search view I can pick up where I left off and scan things since then.
I like to adjust the program window size such that the height of the list exposes not quite all of the bottom item. That way I can click on the bottom item to start the display of that video, and at the same time the list will scroll up one item, exposing a portion of the next item. I can just position the mouse over the last item and click to start viewing that clip. I usually can determine right away whether I want to see the whole thing, and if not, I can click again to proceed to the next clip right away. No need to move the mouse or manually scroll the list to the next clip.
With 5 cameras with near overlapping views of my property, I can quickly follow the path that someone took. Click once to see them enter, but there is no need to watch the whole clip at that time, so immediately click again to see the next camera view to tell which way they went, click again to see the next sequential clip of their route. Quick and easy to see what they were up to, innocuous utility meter-reader, a visitor that knocked on the door and left when I didn't answer, a poor lost soul, a person stuffing advertising into the door for my paper recycle bin, or someone up to no good. I know from which direction they came, where they went, what they did and which why they went when they left, all with just positioning the mouse once and clicking a few times.
I don't use the remote access features of Sighthound so I cannot comment about the need to download clips to other devices via remote access, but I can see where some would like that feature. I do copy clips to a USB memory stick sometimes using the Right-click, 'Export' function so I can understand the desire to add the ability to send a clip via FTP or e-mail from the same menu. Good idea!
Semper Vaporo,