

Okay, and what that did was that just updated all of the timing information that we would see out here in a timeline for all of those videos. So we wanna make it later, we could set it for two hours behind hit OK. So what we’ve done here in 2.6 is they added a settings for the group which we can now edit the date and time offset for that whole group of videos for that particular camera. And we could go ahead and do two hours and we’d have to do that for all of these. So we have 66 files here and we could go down through and in my clicking the settings, we could come in here and we could hit edit for our date and time offset right here. And what we know is that this particular camera is two hours behind. And we’re going to look at the keys driveway video here because that’s where that information is from. And he swiped his car at 3:12:47 to enter the building. We have some information in our notes here that the witnesses say they saw the suspect an hour and a half earlier in the building. We have our date and time and our images marked for the incident. It would be correct with the real-time and the DVR time were the same. And we see that our metadata that’s in here for this mark frame that we have, we have our date and time and it’s showing 7 25 of 4:48:18. And I’m just gonna call this stabbing incident. So I can go ahead and mark that just by hitting my M key. I can use my forward and back keys to strapes that and I see him falling into the fence.

Our victim is going to, fall into the fence. And we’re going to, we’re going to look over here in the corner here by the fence and we’re gonna see our victim. So we’re just going to scrub ahead here to 4:48:18. So we see from our metadata here, we have the date and the time that is matching up here, in the on-screen timer from the DVR. And then the time, well, this says 4:48:18. So this one we see 2014 07 25 to July 25th. You know that the video files that you get they’re there, the naming convention it’ll take the shape of sort of some date and time for the file. Now those of you, you know, you work with video all the time. So let’s go ahead and have a look at our rooftop. So we have two cameras within the same system here and they have two different offsets. Our driveway camera is two hours behind and then our keys at the entranceway camera are 59 minutes and 40 seconds behind. And we see that our concern occurs at 4:48:18. So that’s fantastic when that happens we love that, right? There’s no need to do any kind of offsets. We see that our rooftop camera, the DVR is actually set to real-time. So we have our notes here that I’ll show you. So that’s kind of a simple way for them to do that. And you can go to the metadata in the photo that you took with your phone and see when you took that photo and you can compare times that way. And then you have the time, the DVR in that photo. Real quick for your first responders as a simple quick way to do that is to take a snapshot with a cell phone and the screen. But as I said, the investigators did a fantastic job of getting the date-time offset information. The rooftop has four, the entranceway there’s 23 and in the driveway, there are 66 different pieces of video footage that we’d have to go through. And each of these contains a bunch of video files. I have a rooftop camera, I have an entranceway camera and I have a driveway camera. So as you can see, I’ve imported the videos that I have. Maybe you’ve seen this before maybe not, but the investigators did a fantastic job of documenting the time offset. So let’s go ahead we’re gonna take a look at a case today that I have over 90 videos or video sound clips that we’d have to look at but the investigators, in this case, it was a stabbing homicide in British Columbia that Grant worked. When, when investigators are telling you when things are happening in real-time and then you have an offset issue in your DVR, you can be scrubbing through video for hours and hours.

If you don’t have the information, it can make it very difficult for you to track suspects, find things in the video. And it’s very important that when your first responders are going out to collect the video evidence that they’re looking for and documenting these offsets. You can have a drift, you can have daylight savings, we can have power outages all kinds of things can cause there to be an offset between DVR time and real-time. Now, this happens quite often when we are dealing with DVRs, where we see a difference in the time the DVR is displaying and what real-time is.

The date and time offset feature in iNPUT-ACE allows you to correct for differences between the actual DVR time and real-time. “Hey everyone, Josh Guthrie here with iNPUT-ACE, bringing you another Video Tip Tuesday.Īnd in today’s tip, we’re gonna talk to you about the date and time offset.
