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The time/datestamp overlay from what I assume is a CCTV system doesn’t appear to be moving relative to the scene, but is moving relative to the video’s edges, so I think that the camera is static; but someone in the thrall of the demon of vertical video has voluntarily gone through and cut out a little vertical sliver from a larger original because they hate context or something.

It’s not absolutely conclusive; but in the context of a system that overlays a timestamp like that you’d expect the timestamp to remain static relative to the edges of the video but move relative to the scene if someone were PTZ-ing the camera in real time.

(Edit: it could also be an automated system doing the slicing, it’s certainly quite common for CCTV systems to do motion detection; and it wouldn’t be a huge surprise if some of the consumer focused systems treat output to a phone as a first-class use case and format their motion-trigger excerpts accordingly. Someone much more familiar than I with the consumer tier ones might even be able to take a guess at the vendor, if they have different stylistic choices around pan speed and zoom aggressiveness and the like, not sure how much variation there is.)

(edit the second: or I could not be a total fool and notice the “EZVIZ” watermark in the top left of the video; which would, surprise surprise, offer some insight. Based on the perspective it’s probably not one of their doorbell-cam offerings(too high, relative to the doorknob and railing for that to be likely); and based on the abrupt transition from IR night vision to visible light spotlight(footage starts greyscale, contrast goes nuts about a second in, then the system switches over to full color) it is presumably one of their models with “Smart night vision” mode; and given that there’s audio it must be one of the models with at least one-way audio. Video resolution is 608x1080; so probably one of their 1920x1080/2MP models, not the 2k or 4k ones. No sign of the camera itself moving, just the 608 pixel sliver; so probably one of the fixed models rather than the PTZ ones. C3N maybe?)

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