VALT Manual Review

Search Screen

Date Range

The Date Range is used to filter the display results based on a date range.

✎The default range is defined by the active users group settings.

1. Click the Date Range Filter.
2. Select a start date.
3. Select an end date.

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View Mode

The view mode button can be used to toggle between a list view and a thumbnail view of the results.

List View

The list view is the most common view for recordings. This view allows users to see the most information assigned to the video. This view can be customized to display the custom information being captured in the information template.

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Thumbnail View

The thumbnail view allows users to see an image preview of the reocrding.

✎The image in this preview cannot be changed.

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Search

The Search box can be used to filter results based on any search query.

Search a Specific Field

1. Open the All fields drop down box.

2. Select the field you would like to filter by.

You can change the dropdown to limit search results to one of the following fields:

• All feilds (default)
• Recording name
• Information fields

  These are the custom fields that you fill out when starting a recording.

• Room name
• Camera name
• Author
• Comments

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Search Filters

Search filters allow users to set up a specific search result for reuse and can use a combination of the following:

Information

Creates a filter that uses fields from your information templates.

Rooms

Creates a filter that uses a specific room or rooms from your application.

Users

Creates a filter that pulls recordings authored by certain users or groups.

Dates

Creates a filter that uses only certain rolling quick dates/weeks (e.g. Last 30 days), or a range of specific calendar days (e.g. Feb 2-Feb 9, 2025).

Add Filter

1. Click the Filter icon.
2. Click + Add filter.
3. Name your filter.
4. Click + Add search field.
5. Select the field type you would like to add.
6. Click Save and Apply.

Optional Steps:

• Add additional fileds by clicking + Add search field.
• Go to the bottom and filter by the following criteria — Rooms, Users & Groups, Date

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Apply Filter

1. Click the Filter icon.
2. Click on the filter you would like to use.

When a filter is applied, a ✔ will appear next to the Filter icon.

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Edit Filter

1. Click the Filter icon.
2. Click the Edit icon.
3. Edit your filter.
4. Click Save and Apply.

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Remove Filter

1. Click the Filter icon.
2. Click the Delete icon.
3. Click Delete to confirm your action.

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Upload

The upload feature can be used to upload recordings made outside of VALT into the VALT application for management.

1. Click Upload in the top right corner.
2. Fill out the information relevant to the recording.
3. Attach the video file.
4. Click Upload

✎The video will need time to process for uploading. The size of the video will impact the uploading time.

Max file size: 16GB

Allowed file types: .mp4, .asf, .mov, .qt, .mkv, .avi

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Export

The Export button can be used to download a PDF or CSV summary of the information associated with the results displayed.

Export to PDF

1. Click the Export button.
2. Select Export to PDF.

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Export to CSV

1. Click the Export button.
2. Select Export to CSV.

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Paginator

If multiple pages of results are present (12, 24, or 48 based on view). You can use this to navigate between pages.

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Table View

Sortable Column Headers

Clicking on any of the tabs will sort the results in ascending or decending order, based on the content in that tab.

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Multi-Select

This is used to select multiple items at once. This can be used to export information for just the selected videos or to delete multiple videos at once.

Export

Selected items can be exported to CSV or PDF.

1. ✔ Check the boxes for the desired recording.
2. Click the Export button.
3. Select Export to PDF or Export to CSV.

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Delete

Selected items can be deleted en masse.

1. ✔ Check the boxes for the desired recording.
2. Click the Delete icon.
3. Confirm the deletion.

⚠Once a video is deleted, it cannot be restored.

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View a Recording

Clicking a Recording Name will bring up the video of said recording.

This will bring you to the video review section.

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Room

The Room column shows you which room a recording occured in. If a video is uploaded to the application, no room will be listed.

If a user has admin access, clicking a room will bring up the Rooms & Cameras<b> section of the <b>Settings.

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Author

The Author column shows you which user owns the video. Authorship determines who has access to see the recording.

If a user has admin access, clicking the author of a recording will bring up the Users & Groups section of the Settings.

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Comments

Clicking on the Comment(s) will open the comment pane of the recording. The recording will be paused at the timestamp of the first comment.

Show More Comments

Clicking this button will display all other comments from the recording and allow a user to jump to the timestamp of any comment.

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Additional Video Options

With the proper group permissions, users will also have the ability to:

• Edit a Recording
• Download a Recording
• Delete a Recording

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Edit a Recording

With the correct permissions, users can edit various components of the video.

1. Hover over the video you would like to edit.
2. Click the Edit icon.
3. Select the option you would like to edit.
   • Information
   • Evaluation
   • Sharing
   • Author
   • Retention

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Download a Recording

With the correct permissions, users can download the VALT recordings to their computer as an MP4 file.

1. Hover over the video you would like to download.
2. Click on the Download icon.
3. Pick the location on your machine where you would like to store the video.

✎Videos can only be downloaded one at a time.

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Delete a Recording

With the correct permissions, users can delete recordings from the system.

1. Hover over the video you would like to delete.
2. Click the Delete icon.
3. Confirm your deletion.

⚠Once a video is deleted, it cannot be restored.

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Video Review

Comments

Users are able to leave comments in the video. These comments are attached to the user leaving the comment and are timestamped in the videos timeline.

Add

Comments can be added in many ways. The most simple, is a standard comment.

1. Go to a room that is recoding.
2. Click on the Comments button.
3. Click on the text field in the bottom left of the screen.
4. Enter the text for your comment.
5. Press Enter or click on the Send comment button.

🕮Admins can grant access to comments in the User & Groups settings.

▶️ Check out our video about enabling comments!

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Quick Markers

Selection of pre-defined comments for adding to a recording, set up in the Templates section of the VALT Settings.

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Enable Audio Mode

This feature allows a user to record an audio comment instead of free text.

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Add Mention

Use the Mention icon to direct a comment towards another VALT user.

✎Only the tagged user or group will see this comment.

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Attach a File

The attach file icon allows users to include a file in the comments for others to download.

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Open Comment Template

The hamburger button allows users to fill in pre-set fields, created in the comments template section of the VALT Settings.

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Select Color

You can use the color button to change the color of the marker on the timeline.

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Reset Timestamp

During live observation of a recording, when typing a comment, the timestamp will correlate to the time the comment was started. Click the Reset Timestamp button to update the time to the current time.

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Reply

Hover over a comment and click the Reply icon to direct a response that a specific post.

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Edit

To make a change to an existing comment, hover over the comment and click the Edit icon.

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Delete

Hover over a comment and click the Delete icon to delete the comment.

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Recording Settings

When starting, preparing, or watching a recording in progress, users can modify various settings for the reocrding.

These settings allow the user to manipulate the following items:

• Information
• Evaluation
• Sharing
• Author
• Retention

Information

The Information tab allows users to assign data to a recording. This data can later be used to search for the recording.

This is the same template used when preparing or scheduling a recording. Each template can have multiple data fields, but at least one field is required. Users can be assigned multiple templates as needed.

🕮Want to learn more about Information Templates?

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Evaluation

This button pulls up the evaluation menu. Evaluation templates are typically used during a recording, or after a recording is completed. Numeric values can be assigned to the fields within an evaluation form. This allows scoring to be done on each item and the overall form.

🕮Want to learn more about Evaluation Templates?

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Sharing

Allows the user to share the recording with users / user groups that normally would not have access to it.

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Author

Allows the user to change the author of the recording. Changing the author will also change all the permissions associated with who has access to the recording (that is all based on author).

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Retention

Allows the user to change how long this recording is stored for before automatically being deleted.

Default:

Whatever the author's user group retention settings are set to will be automatically used.

Keep For:

Allows a user to define a number of days, hours, or minutes to keep a recording for.

Keep Until:

Allows users to select a future date that the recording will be deleted on.

Keep Forever

Leaves the video on the system until it is manually deleted.

⚠Once a video is deleted from the system, it cannot be recovered.

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Make a Clip

Within the Make a clip section, users have the ability to create clips or redact a section from a video.

🕮These processes do not remove the original video. It creates a copy of the recording that has the edited version.

Create Clip

Use a selected section to create a second video file titled “Original Name(Clip)” while maintaining the original file.

1. While reviewing the video, click the Make a clip button.
2. On the timeline, highlight the desired section of video.
3. Click Create Clip.

Your clip will now be available on the review page.

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Cut Out

Remove the selected section creating a second video file titled “Original Name(Redact)” while maintaining the original file.

1. While reviewing the video, click the Make a clip button.
2. On the timeline, highlight the desired section of video.
3. Click Cut Out.

Your edited video will now be available on the review page.

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Share Settings

The share settings icon allows you to share videos with users who do not have VALT Accounts. If a user without an account opens the link, they will only see the VALT room that was shared with them.

Create Sharing Link

1. Click on the share settings icon.
2. Select an expiration for the sharing link.
   • No expiration (default)

     Will never expire but can manually be removed later.

   • End after date

     Select a date when the link will no longer be valid.

   • End after period

     Specify the duration(Days/Hours) of time for which the link will be valid.

3. Click the ‘New Share Link’ button.

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Copy Sharing Link

1. Click on the share settings icon.
2. Click the ‘Copy Link’ button.

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Delete Sharing Link

1. Click the share settings icon.
2. Click the Delete icon.

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