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Function
The video monitor is used for displaying and controlling surveillance windows.
Functions
The video monitor is used:
- to display images from video surveillance cameras;
- to control surveillance modes;
- to graphically process images from video surveillance cameras;
- to control recording of video sequences from surveillance cameras;
- to work with video archives;
- to display video camera status data.
Interface description
The figure shows the video surveillance monitor interface. 
The surveillance monitor window consists of a field for video surveillance windows and a tools panel with:
buttons used to alter the number of surveillance windows on the monitor;
button used to control the monitor layout;
buttons used to alter surveillance windows;
field displays current time/date.
Every surveillance window has its functions menu to gain access to arming and disarming cameras, image processing, functional command menus, image processing, video recording control, frame export and printing etc.
Calling up the functions menu is performed by left clicking on the camera number in the surveillance window.
When hovering over the controls in the Video Surveillance Monitor, tooltips are displayed. The period of their display can be set using the TT_INITIAL and TT_AUTOPOP registry keys (see Registry keys reference guide).
Hotkeys for convenient monitor and surveillance windows operation are listed in table.
Hotkeys | Action | Comments |
|---|---|---|
0 .. 9 Num (numeric keypad) | Selecting an active Video Surveillance Window with a camera having ID in the range of 0 to 9 | The sequence number of the selected window corresponds to the button number. |
| Ctrl + 0 .. 9 Num (numeric keypad) | Selecting an active Video Surveillance Window with a camera having ID in the range of 10 to 19 | Press Ctrl and the key corresponding to the lower-order digit in the camera ID to activate cameras 10 to 19, e.g. CTRL+0 activates camera 10, CTRL+9 activates camera 19. |
| Ctrl + 10 or more on numeric keypad | Selecting an active Video Surveillance Window with a camera having ID larger than 10 | Press Ctrl and sequentially enter the camera ID digits to activate a camera with two-digit ID, e.g. CTRL+2+3 to activate camera 23. |
F1 .. F6 | Select the number of windows displayed on the monitor | F1 – 1 window Note. The documentation can also be opened by pressing the F1 key if Intellect is set up appropriately (see The Settings panel of the Security zone object section in Administrator's Guide). |
| F7 | Displaying of all Video surveillance windows on the Monitor. This key can only be used if there are more than 36 Video surveillance windows in the Monitor. | |
| F8 | In the archive mode – select date and time for searching records. Long-holding – call the Execute menu of the Main control panel. In the video surveillance mode – call the Execute menu of the Main control panel. | This hot key can be disabled using the DisableF8 registry key (see Registry keys reference guide). |
| F9 | Calling up the functions menu of the surveillance window | |
Ctrl + R | Video recording control, | Ctrl + R – video recording startup |
Shift + LeftClick/RightClick | Image scaling in the window | Shift + LeftClick - step-by-step zoom-in |
Tab | Entering and quitting archive mode | See Working with video archives section. By default, pressing Tab redirects the user to the main archive of the Server. If it should redirect the user to the external archive, it is necessary to use the EnterEdgeStorageDirect key (see Registry keys reference guide). |
Ctrl + "/" (numeric keypad) | Archive playback control (playback control panel). | Ctrl + "/" – playback |
Ctrl + A/D | Camera arming | Ctrl + A – camera arming |
Ctrl + E/P | Operating individual frames | Ctrl + E – behaviour depends on the state of a camera. If it is not in the archive, or in the archive but paused, the frame is exported, otherwise the video is exported. When the video is exported, the exported frames are played back. |
Ctrl + W | Increase image contrast | Maximum contrast is set. To retract the previous value, click the hotkeys once more. |
Ctrl + S | Setting camera mask | Ctrl + S – show camera mask Ctrl + H – hide camera mask |
| Ctrl+L | Enable/disable PTZ control using the mouse | See Mouse PTZ control. |
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