Scenario: You discover an incident after it happened

This example scenario only covers how to investigate and document incidents with built-in XProtect Smart Client features.

Let’s say you meet up at work and discover that someone has vandalized your windows by throwing paint on them. You know there was no paint when you left the day before.

In this scenario, you would typically:

1. Find the views with the cameras covering the areas with the vandalized windows.

2. In playback mode, use the features on the main timeline to browse the video from the time you left the day before. If you have set up an alarm that would have been triggered by the incident, you could also look at your list of alarms.

3. Find the video showing the time when the windows were vandalized and bookmark it. Also, now you know how the persons entered and left your area. Find the video showing their movement around your area and bookmark it too.

4. You would probably export the bookmarked video as documentation and share it with relevant security personnel inside or outside your organization.

5. As an alternative–or addition–to the export, you can apply evidence locks to the video sequences to ensure the video sequences are not deleted at the retention time defined for all video in your XProtect VMS system.