Viewing video and working with views

Some of the most fundamental tasks for a user of XProtect Smart Client include:

• Viewing video from cameras

• Listening to audio from microphones

• Accessing other data from devices added to your XProtect VMS system.

Here are a few ways you can do these tasks.

Selecting views

You view video and other content by selecting different views. If there is audio, you can hear it. You select views:

• From the Views pane.

• From the views selection list in the workspace toolbar.

• Through keyboard shortcuts if you have assigned keyboard shortcuts to your views.

View items and content-related menus and overlay buttons

If you select a view item in a view, a menu related to the content in the view item is shown at the bottom of the view items.

For example, overlay buttons can give you quick access to pan or zoom in the video.

To view details in the content of a view item, you can double-click the view item to maximize it.

Navigating the video

On the main timeline, you can switch between viewing live and recorded video and go back and forth in the recorded video. You can also search for video or other content.

Multiple windows and tabs

To view video from multiple views simultaneously, you can send views to detached windows. You can also have multiple views tabs in all your open windows.

To restore all your windows and tabs the next time you log into XProtect Smart Client, remember to enable the setting for restoring them.