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Milestone XProtect Viewer; User’s Manual Copyright, Trademarks and Important Information Copyright © 2009 Milestone Systems A/S. Trademarks XProtect is a registered trademark of Milestone Systems A/S. Microsoft® and Windows® are registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation. All other trademarks mentioned in this document are trademarks of their respective owners. Disclaimer This document is intended for general information purposes only, and due care has been taken in its preparation.
Milestone XProtect Viewer; User’s Manual Contents INTRODUCTION.......................................................... 4 USING THE VIEWER.................................................... 5 How to Use the Viewer’s Toolbar .......................................................... 5 How to Set Up the Camera Layout ........................................................ 6 Selecting Grid Size.............................................................................. 6 Assigning Cameras...............
Milestone XProtect Viewer; User’s Manual Introduction This document is aimed at users of the Milestone XProtect Viewer application. The Viewer is a standalone application which lets you browse and play back video recordings. The Viewer also lets you print still images, send still images via e-mail, and export entire video and audio sequences in a variety of formats.
Milestone XProtect Viewer; User’s Manual Using the Viewer Menu Bar Date/Time Selector Toolbar Timeline Browser Camera Layout Playback Controls Control Panel Example illustration of the Viewer and its elements: In this example, the Viewer displays video from a single camera, but the Viewer can also display video from several cameras simultaneously. Note that the content of the Viewer's toolbar may vary depending on configuration.
Milestone XProtect Viewer; User’s Manual Alarm Overview: Opens the Alarm Overview control panel, in which you are able to view a list of detected motion and events. By clicking motion detections or events in the list, you are able to browse recordings from around the time at which the motion or events occurred. Image Controls: Opens the Image Controls control panel, in which you have access to digital zoom and interlacing settings.
Milestone XProtect Viewer; User’s Manual cameras simultaneously in the camera layout. 3. Assign cameras to the camera layout's camera slots, as described in the following. Assigning Cameras Having specified the required grid size for the camera layout, assign cameras to the camera layout's camera slots the following way: 1. Click the Database Information icon in the Viewer's toolbar. This will open the Database Information control panel. 2.
Milestone XProtect Viewer; User’s Manual • Online indicator (the right indicator, green): Lights up during periods with recordings. How to Store and Recall Your Views You are able to save particular configurations of the Viewer's camera layout as so-called views. This allows you to switch between them using the Views menu in the Viewer's menu bar. For example, you may store one view displaying video from 16 cameras, and another view displaying videos from four other cameras.
Milestone XProtect Viewer; User’s Manual How to Browse Recordings with the Timeline Browser The timeline browser displays an overview of periods with recordings from all cameras displayed in your current camera layout. The number of timelines displayed in the timeline browser reflects the number of cameras displayed in the camera layout you are viewing. The timeline of the camera selected in the camera layout is highlighted in a lighter color.
Milestone XProtect Viewer; User’s Manual Use to control the playback speed. When the slider is in its middle position, playback is real-time, regardless of the recorded frame rates. How to Browse Recordings with the Motion View Motion view lets you view a graph displaying sequences of recordings from the selected camera. The motion levels indicated in the graph can be used as an indication of what has been recorded.
Milestone XProtect Viewer; User’s Manual Tip: To view what took place prior to and after the motion detection or event, use the timeline browser or playback controls to browse recordings from around the time of the motion detection or event. How to Browse Recordings with Smart Search Note: Smart Search is only available when the Viewer is used with certain Milestone surveillance systems. Smart search lets you search for motion in one or more selected areas of images from a particular camera.
Milestone XProtect Viewer; User’s Manual control panel will now change and show corresponding time information. For each image found, you have the following options in the Smart Search control panel: • Deselect: Even while viewing images in which motion has been found, you are able to adjust the area covered by smart search by dragging inside the image. Normally, the areas you select by dragging inside the image are included in the search.
Milestone XProtect Viewer; User’s Manual Tip: To move around within the zoomed image, you may also simply click and drag the image in the required direction. Smoothening and Scaling To digitally smoothen video from the selected camera, select the Smooth Images check box. To display video from the selected camera in the resolution in which it was originally, select the Scale 1 : 1 check box.
Milestone XProtect Viewer; User’s Manual 3. Type the e-mail address of the recipient. If sending to several recipients, separate e-mail addresses with a semicolon (example: aa@aa.aa;bb@bb.bb). 4. Type a subject text for the e-mail. 5. Verify that the Image field lists the camera you require. 6. Type a message, typically a description of the recorded incident. 7. Click the Send button.
Milestone XProtect Viewer; User’s Manual b. Select required frame rate. Full will export all images to the AVI file; Half will reduce the size of the AVI file by only exporting every second image, yet still play back in real-time speed. c. Select whether timestamps from the surveillance system should be added to the AVI file. d. In the Codec list, select the video codec (compression/decompression technology) you want to use for generating the AVI file.
Milestone XProtect Viewer; User’s Manual For exported archives, e.g. archives stored on a CD, you click the browse button in the Viewer's Database Information control panel to browse for the archive you want to view. Once you have specified the required archive this way, you can use all of the Viewer's browsing features for navigating the recordings in the archive.
Milestone XProtect Viewer; User’s Manual When you click the Print button, a dialog box may ask you whether you wish to print the selected topic only or all topics under the selected heading. When this is the case, select Print the selected topic and click OK. Tip: When printing a selected help topic, the topic will be printed as you see it on your screen.
Milestone XProtect Viewer; User’s Manual The Americas: Milestone Systems Inc. 9805 SW Nimbus Avenue, Suite 400 Beaverton, Oregon 97008 USA Tel.: +1 503 350 1100 Fax: +1 503 350 1199 Headquarters (Denmark): Milestone Systems A/S Banemarksvej 50 G, DK-2605 Brondby, Copenhagen Denmark Tel.: +45 88 300 300 Fax: +45 88 300 301 Phone toll-free +1 877 350 1101 United Kingdom: Milestone Systems UK 118 Codnor Gate, Ripley Derbyshire DE5 9QW England Tel.
