The following are standard use instructions for the Touch version of Viewline. If you have any problems, please contact us from the contact form on this website using the subject line Rausch Viewline. The Rausch integration is based on the Touch functionality of Viewline 550. It is worth looking at our general tutorial videos as Viewline Touch is basically the standard Viewline 500, displayed differently.
Once installed (installation information can be found below) users must be connected to the internet for license check purposes.
- Create New Project by clicking on New Project button and type the new project’s name in the Project Name field. You will then have an option to save the project in your local Windows directory. Most clients create a project called CCTV Surveys and save projects in this folder. This destination will be remembered. (Please don’t save projects to remote drives such as One Drive, Google Drive or any storage that is not local. This could cause syncing problems and you may lose your data).
- You will then see the Project Manager box. This is shown whenever a new projects is created. This enables the user to select the Contractor (normally just one for most users). You will see a Contractor Manager button, this allows you to edit your details as a contractor.
- You will also see the Client and Site tabs. These are where users can add these details. It is important these are populated at the beginning of the survey as they are used in other parts of the report.
- There is also a Report Cover Page. Users can use this area to add images that will be shown on the front page of the report.
- Once that information is saved the Detailed Header Entry box will pop up. This is where Header information is added and is divided into four tabs. Header information forms the top part of each individual survey.
- The Location tab probably holds the most important data. As a minimum the Start and Finish References must be added. It is recommended that as many fields are filled in as possible. Remember that most of the details that are unlikely to change are retained and prepopulated on the next Detailed Header Entry box.
- The Details and Job tabs allow the user to add more detail, in some cases from drop down lists populated with standard data. Again this detail will follow through to the next Header, so if it changes remember to change it.
- Viewline provides Overview pages to enable the end report viewer to get a quick guide to the report without having to go through every single page. The overview information is auto populated from the the data entered in the main report pages. The Overview tab allows users to add freehand text information and tick a box if there is evidence of a misconnection.
- To see live video, the Live button must be activated. As a minimum the distance reading should be visible on the screen.
- The Record button should be pressed to start recording the survey.
- When an observation is to be made or defect noted, then the Pause button should be pressed and then the (green) Capture Observation button should be clicked. At this point a number of things will happen. An image will be captured from the live video. The live video will be paused. The Observation Input box will then open. The user can then add the code or select the code with description add the appropriate attributes and press Save.
- It is possible to just make an Observation by clicking Capture Observation.
- To continue remember to click Continue. Then repeat this process until you reach the end of the survey. At this point you can click the Stop button (twice) that will reveal the Survey Complete box. Normally you would click the Save button to capture the video to the active section. (Discard will delete the video file, Export will allow the video file to be saved).
- After the video has been Saved to the active header the user would then click the Complete this Section. This allows the user to finish the survey and then the user can save the section.
- The Edit Contractor, Open Project, New Project, Edit Project and New Section buttons are self explanatory.
- The View Video button allows the user to view the video associated with the active header (the details of which can be seen in blue in the top right of the window.
- If the user wants to view a video of a certain section they would need to click View Sections and then select the section they are interested in. Then click View Video to view the video associated with that section.
- If the user wants to view the observations of a certain section they would need to click View Sections and then select the section they are interested in. Then click View Observations to view the Observations associated with that section.
- To create a report, the user should click the Report button. Keeping the defaults will produce a standard PDF report when either Preview or Save as are pressed. The PDF will be previewed on whatever default PDF viewer the user has. There are other (less used) options to create the report in HTM (a web page), Word or XML.
- The Overlay button enables users to overlay text information directly onto the video file. In the absence of a screenwriter, this can be useful. For example this can be set up to display ‘clapperboards’ (basic survey details) at the beginning of each survey. The information is taken from the header details and overlaid onto the video file for a specified time at the beginning of a survey. You may also add your company logo and even observation detail.
- On the right of the video pane are four buttons that all relate to Video control. The top button enables you to Open a video file already saved to your PC and attach it to the active header. The Export button enables exporting video files to any drive. The Delete button is for deleting video files from the project. The Source button enables different filters to be used. We highly recommend Lav Filters as they all smooth playing of most video file formats.
- Finally there is the Frame button. This enables fine control of video. Users can move the video backwards and forwards one frame at a time using this feature.