Playback

The Playback windows allow you to review the recorded footage for a camera. You can also perform some image processing on the images to improve the image quality and create movies for periods of interest.

• The top of the window consists of the icon bar. Taking these icons in order, they perform the following:
• The Tools icon toggles the display of the Tools section, below the image.
• The next three icons control the magnification of the image, reducing the size, setting the size to default, and increasing the size respectively. By default, these will zoom into the image, but holding CTRL will cause the window size to be changed. This can also be changed in the Look & Feel settings.
• The next icon is the Copy icon which copies the current image to the Windows clipboard. From here it can be pasted into any suitable application. The Printer icon will print the current image.
• The Image Enhancement icon will toggle the display of two sliders at the bottom the of window. These will allow you to alter the gamma correction and brightness of the image.
• The video camera icon will allow you to create a movie from your recorded images. To select the range of images you want to convert to a movie find the first image using the controls in the Playback window, then press the Start button, then move to the last image you want to include in your movie, and press the End button.
• The Information button will display some information about the image, including the file location, the time it was saved and whether the image security signature is valid.

The area below the recorded image contains a time line, a date and time, a speed, 'video style' playback buttons and a loop play icon.

The time line is a graphical display of when movement has occurred in the image over a 24 hour period. A red line indicates there has been motion, and the height of that line indicates the amount of motion in the period that line covers.

The date and time allow you to select the day you wish to view, and to jump to a particular time during that day. If there is no image for the exact time you entered, the closest image to that date will be displayed.

The Speed slider allow you to change the speed at which the images are played back relative to real time speed in the middle.

The final button is the Loop Play button. Pressing this button will move the playback windows into 'Loop play' mode. The will remove the date selector buttons and instead the window will play, by default, the last 5 images in a continuous loop. This number can be altered in the Loop Stills box. This mode can be useful to ensure that any motion is not missed if the look away from the screen briefly as the last motions will be replayed in the window.

Some feeds will also show an option to "Motion only" or "All video". This allows you to skip periods when no motion has occurred on feeds that use video stream recording to save direct to disk.

Synchronised playback across several feeds

If you right click on a group in the feed tree, there is a ""Synchronised playback" option which will open the playback window for all feeds in the group.

You can use any of these windows to control all the playback windows simultaneously as you would normally.

To stop synchronised playback, just close the playback windows and they will open again normally next time.