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VIDEO PLAYBACK
Once you have selected the video(s) you wish to view, playback will begin when the Play
button is pressed. CMS’ playback operates like other conventional computer video playback
applications. However, there are certain extra controls as well.
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No. Name Function
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Playback
Controls
Play - begins or resumes playback
Pause - interrupts playback until play button is pressed
Stop - ends playback
Fast Forward - controls playback speed; 1/4X, 1/2X, 2x, 4x
Next Frame - After pausing video, switch to single screen view and
then press Next Frame to resume playback one frame at a time.
2 Snapshot
Take up to 10 still images from selected camera (highlighted in red).
Operates exactly as the Snapshot feature in Live View described on
Page 18 of this manual.
3 Display Mode Choose the number of cameras you wish to view at once.
4
Backup
Stamps
Allow you to select a segment of a video recording to save to
backup.
Start - Sets the beginning of the segment
End - Sets the endpoint of the video segment
Erase - Deletes the beginning or endpoint.
Backup - Saves the video segment to a computer drive.
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Playback
Timeline
Shows the time and duration of video records. It is divided into
24-hour segments
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Playback
Progress Bar
Shows the progress through the video playback. It can be clicked
and dragged to a specific place on the timeline.
Clicking on the bar will show the precise time of its current location.
Right-clicking on the triangle at the top of the bar will change the
scale of the timeline to show segments of an hour.
PICTURE PLAYBACK
If you have an IP (Internet Protocol) camera connected to your network which is being
monitored by CMS, you can view still images saved to the SD card within the camera.
When you select a connected IP camera
from the Select Device pull-down, you can
then choose the type of event (Motion and/
or Sensor) and the date to search. A date
shown in red within the calendar indicates
that a recording was made on that day.
Clicking on the Search button will generate a
list of events that were recorded, along with
the type of event they are.
Once the list is populated, click on View to
see thumbnails of the available images.
Clicking on an image in the thumbnail display will present it in the larger viewing window.
Below the window, a 24-hour time line shows when pictures were taken. Images captured by
a sensor alarm are shown in red while motion detection events are denoted with yellow. Right-
clicking on the progress bar will change the scale to show events occurring within an hour.
You can view the images as a slide show as well as zoom in or out of a picture using the
controls located between the thumbnail and single picture viewing window. Other controls
in this area allow you to close some or all of the pictures in the thumbnail view, save a single
image or all open images to the PC’s hard drive and adjust the size of the image on display.