Default views and adaptive views

With the XProtect VMS release 2023 R2, the possibility to see exported video in an adaptive view was introduced. Compared with the default view, the adaptive view is optimized for viewing exported video from many cameras.

Viewing exported video in default views

When you open exported video, the video is, by default, opened in a default view with a maximum of 25 view items. Exported video from 1-25 cameras is in a default view shown in at least as many view items as the number of cameras. However, if you have received exported video from more than 25 cameras, the exported video is displayed in several default views. For example, exported video from 100 cameras is shown in four default views.

When you play back the exported video in default views, most view items are empty at different times because even if you have received 10 minutes of video, there are, for example, only 2 minutes of video from each camera, leaving each view item empty for 8 minutes.

If the export project has video from many cameras, seeing all details in the video is difficult because each view item has limited space. Also, if the video is shown in several views, it is challenging to gain an overview.

Viewing exported video in adaptive views

An adaptive view adapts its number of view items to the number of cameras with concurrent video feeds and can display exported video from up to 100 cameras. The exported video is played back in chronological order. This behavior makes it easier to see all details in the exported video and have an overview of everything happening in the video.

Exported video from more than 100 cameras can only be shown in default views.

Examples of how an adaptive view adapts its number of view items:

Example 1: Only one video feed at a time

You have received 10 minutes of video from 10 cameras, and each camera only has 1 minute of video with no overlap. In this case, the adaptive view has one view item that shows the video from one of the 10 cameras at a time and in chronological order.

Example 2: Concurrent video from more cameras

If there are concurrent video feeds from more cameras in the export, the adaptive view adapts the number of view items to the number of cameras with video at any given time.