Evidence CD Creator

If you should need to present evidence to the Police or other authorities, iCatcher Console provides a means to export images and videos of the incident to a CD.

The generated CD contains a stand-alone evidence browser that requires no software installation to run (Windows PC required to view). The browser shows you all the incidents recorded on the CD with the opportunity to play back each one. The playback operation is identical to that of iCatcher Console.

To activate the Evidence CD Wizard, right-click on Local Console in the tree list, and select "Create Evidence CD".

The Wizard starts by asking for information about the first event to add to the CD. You will need to select the Console and camera the incident occurred on, the date of the incident, and if you don't want the entire day, the start and end times of the incident. As with creating AVI video files from playback, you can not span across midnight boundaries.

Once you click next, you will be shown the list of events added so far. You can add more events by checking "Add More Events" and then clicking next.

Once the event list is complete, clicking Next will allow you to specify the folder to export the CD structure to. By default, this is the Microsoft Windows CD Burning folder. When export is completed, you will be able to burn the files to CD by right-clicking on the CDROM drive under My Computer, and selecting "Burn these files".

For other versions of Windows, you can specify an alternative folder and use your own CD Writing software to write the CD contents.

At this point, you can choose if the Evidence CD Creator should also compile AVI video files of the recorded footage. These AVI files can be played back in a media player (such as Windows Media Player or QuickTime) independently of the evidence CD browser.

If you choose to create an AVI video, you can select "Change video codec settings" to change the video compressor and its associated configuration, along with the compression quality and frame rate.

Note that when an H.264 stream-to-disk or a remote feed is being used, the H.264 data will be directly passed into the resulting AVI file, and codec settings will be unavailable. The video will playback at the rate and quality used at the time of recording and will use the H.264 compression mechanism.

Clicking Next will ask you to confirm you are ready to create the Evidence CD. Upon clicking Finish, the footage will be copied, and an AVI video file generated using the codec settings of the last AVI video file creation. Lastly, the CD structure and evidence browser will be copied.