What is new?

Beta version 7.0 (December 2011, link)

Version 6.3.0.510 (March 2011. download, Japanese version )

• Fixed some compatibility issues

Version 6.3.0.503 (January 2011.  download)

• Minor user interface improvements and fixes
• Added additional site plan and OpenGL options  (Alt-F10)

Latest stable version 6.3.0.482

• Added new test object: cylinder
• Added camera names on the site plan.

• Length of walls and size of box object is shown on the Site Plan during wall or box drawing/resizing.
• Updated main program and project file icons.
• Added advanced program preferences window (Alt-F10).
• Added Czech and Polish localizations.

Latest stable version 6.2.0.450

• Possibility to set new Zero coordinate (0,0)  on the Site Plan (Right mouse click on Site Plan).
• You can rotate or move camera in 3D preview/3D view window using left and middle mouse buttons.
• You can move camera target on Site plan using red endpoint. Yellow endpoints help to modify the angle of view.
• Auto-detection of measurement system (US units or Metric based on Windows Regional settings) and preferred language.

Version 6.1.0.431

• Box rotation (Like in Microsoft Visio).
• Arrow keys to adjust positions and size of walls, boxes, and other test objects (Hold “Ctrl” to resize).
• Increased maximal CCTV camera zone size.
• Added AutoRecovery function.
• Site plan and 3D views grids are updated (every 10th line has been made brighter).
• Improved “add wall” function. The software helps to draw straight walls (angle=0, 90, 180, 270 degrees).
• To move walls, boxes, men, cars on the site plan you can use arrow keys.
• Added Visio-like commands for “zoom-in” and “zoom out” the site plan using Ctrl+Shift+MouseClick.

Version 6.0.0.405

• Added support of MS Visio-style for drawing a wall or a box (Click + drag).
• Added Site plan “Zoom”  by rotation of mouse wheel.
• Added Site plan scrolling function using middle mouse button or mouse wheel.
• Added manual “Check for updates” commands.
• Site plan is scrolled automatically when the user selects a remotely located camera.

Version 6.0.0.390

• Background loading to import site plan or floor plan blueprints in BMP / JPEG format from Autocad, Visio or Google Earth.
• New types of walls: painted walls, thin walls, thick walls
• Number plate region selection (US, EU, AU)
• Pixel per meter visualization
• Drawing speed is increased
• Many other changes

Older features:

• New test object: Car
• Wall length is shown during drawing in the status bar
• “Save   Ctrl-S” menu item in addition to “Save As…”
• Project name in the application caption
• Pixel per ft calculation
• Custom security camera zone visualization
  

• Large 3D view
• Columns selection for bandwidth&storage as well as for lens&field of view calculations
• Option to show/hide the camera zone on Site Plan and option to hide the blue test man

Please see CCTV Design Tool / IP Video Design Tool help file/Release notes section for details.

• Added “Bitrate, (kbit/s)” field for MPEG4/H.264 bandwidth calculation, now you can specify your CBR (Constant BitRate) limitation for each camera type.
• Added “Comment” field for bandwidth calculation
• Now It is possible to move and reorder bandwidth calculation columns
• On “Site plan” you can add a camera at current position using popup menu (right mouse click to show)
• Supported 1/2.5, 1/1.8, 1.25, 1/3.6-inch sensor formats
• Added new resolutions: Full HD, 4 MP
• Improved repaint functions for ATI and NVidia  video cards
• Improved object selection functions
• Updated Save/Load functions
• Added  bug reporting system
• 2D Site Plan / Floor plan added.

• You can put multiple cameras on the site plan and make a visual modeling of  the covered zones.
• You can add walls, test persons, and 3d box objects on the site plan.
• Added a visualization of a camera Monitoring (5%), Detection (10%), Recognition (50%), Identification (120%) zones.
• Added Save Picture to File command in the popup menus
• Updated the Localization Tool
• Now camera exact view area of  is displayed.

• Added view area “lower bound” in Expert Mode for exact viewing zone calculation.
• Corrected Field Of View and Vertical Angle calculation.
• Added a new View from Camera (3D Modeling).

• Added test objects (Man 1.8m): (1st – at specified distance, 2nd – at nearest visible distance, 3rd – user placed man).
• Added choice of camera format – 4:3 or 16:9.
• Lens and FOV parameters grouped in Camera, Viewing angles, Field of View groups.
• Corrected MPEG4 and H.264 bandwidth calculation for middle compression levels.
• Added a vertical viewing angle calculation.
• Added a possibility to modify the Focal Length and immediately calculate new field of view.

• Implemented completely different algorithm for MPEG4 bandwidth and storage space estimation, based on our recent MPEG4 research.
• Added 8 new MPEG-4 and H.264 resolutions.
• Implemented new way of H.264 calculation.
• Added new options for bandwidth calculation: “Image Complexity” and “Motion %” in Expert Mode (Menu/Settings/Expert Mode).
• Added new buttons for fast modification of the Focal Length and FOV Width.
• Supported several new camera PAL and NTSC resolutions, including 704×288, 1280×960, 1280×1024 and 2600×1950.
• Results of bandwidth calculations were tested with several AXIS, Panasonic network cameras and compared with data from AXIS corporation.
• Added the internal localization tool (Menu/Settings/Language/Localization Tool).