Investigation and documentation of incidents

XProtect Smart Client has many built-in features that facilitate the investigation and documentation of incidents. There are also XProtect extensions explicitly developed for these purposes.

The features available to you depend on the XProtect VMS product, possible extensions, and your user permissions.

Which feature is best depends on the scenario and your preferences.

Bookmarks, evidence locks, and searches

You can tag the video sequences showing an incident with bookmarks and evidence locks.

You can search for bookmarks and evidence locks. A search is faster and more precise than using the various controls in the main timeline. Your search also finds all video sequences that are tagged with the same bookmark or evidence lock.

To improve sharing and collaboration, you can save a search as a public search. A saved public search is available for your colleagues so they can easily find the tagged video sequences.

When you tag video with evidence locks, the tagged video sequences are not deleted after the retention time defined for all video sequences in your XProtect VMS system.

Events, alarms, and the alarms list

If you’re viewing live video, keeping an eye on new events and alarms on the alarms list is a good idea. The events and alarms could be triggered by an incident you need to investigate. If you only view recorded video, open the alarms list a couple of times every day to check if there have been incidents that you need to investigate.

Export

Save video outside the XProtect VMS system and share the exported video with others.