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6BChapter 7: Searching files
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Click the playback button of a desired recording. Only one result can be played back at a
time. The playback recording appears in the playback viewer. Click the viewer screen to
watch the recording. When the selected recording finishes, the viewer screen goes black.
To view another search result, click Advanced and select another file to watch.
Note: If you close the Search window, all search results will be lost.
5. To hide the playback control toolbar during play back, click the full-screen button. Press Esc
button on your keyboard to return to the playback window with the toolbar displayed.
6. Use the playback control toolbar to manually control playback.
7. To do another search, click Stop All Playback in the playback window and then click
the Advanced button. Reselect the search criteria and click Search.
8. Click in the top corner of the advanced search window to close it.
To lock recordings to prevent overwriting:
1. In playback, click the Advanced button and select the Time & Date tab.
2. Select the desired cameras, record type, file type, stream type as well as the start and end
times of the desired recording.
3. Click Search. The list of search results appears.
4. Click the Lock button of a desired camera. The selected file cannot be overwritten.
Search and play back recordings by event
You can search recorded video by event type: Alarm Input, Motion, VCA Alarms, and Intrusion
alarms. When you select a video to play back from an event search, you can add on to the
beginning and end of the video pre-defined times. The pre-play and post-play times can help
provide information to what happened just before and after an event. You can select one of
seven time periods for the pre and post-play times.