Viewing recorded video

You investigate incidents mainly in playback mode by using the main timeline to browse recorded video. To view recorded video, you must find a view that shows video from the cameras that you are interested in. The views are available in the Views pane. For each camera that appears in a view, different actions are available, for example taking snapshots or launching search. See The camera toolbar (camera view items). If something catches your attention, you can zoom in to take a closer look using the virtual joystick.

You can perform advanced searches on the Search tab and use the search results as a starting point for further investigation or actions, for example exporting and bookmarking.

If the incident is associated with an alarm, go to the Alarm Manager tab, or select a view where the Alarm List has been added.

If you have an Incidents tab in XProtect Smart Client, you have XProtect® Incident ManagerA product integrated into some surveillance systems, which enables the control of live camera views on remote computers for distributed viewing. Computers on which you can view Matrix-triggered video are known as Matrix-recipients.. See the XProtect Incident Manager documentation. If you do not have XProtect Incident Manager or want to investigate incidents with the built-in XProtect Smart Client functionality, you use the features and methods described in this section.