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You can superimpose a text over video in the camera Surveillance window. This text will be visible to all users in all monitoring modes, but will not be present on exported frames and videos.

To put a text over the camera Surveillance window, do the following:

1. Select a Camera object and click .

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   You cannot do it if the Image Modified button is depressed clicked (see Privacy Configuring a privacy mask settings For ).
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   For your convenience, you can click the Image Modified button and configure the mask on a still freeze frame /snapshot . To undo, click this button again.

2. Click any mouse button anywhere in FoV FOV to set two anchor points of the rectangular area where the text will be displayed. The higher the area, the more larger the font size.
   

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   To remove the area, click the button.

3. Click .

4. Enter the required text. By default, the name of the video camera is displayed.
   

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   The text string has to fit the width of the area. If not, you cannot apply settings. For a longer text, make the area wider.

5. Select a font color from the dropdown drop-down list.
6. Click the OK button.
7. If required, you can set multiple text areas in different parts of FoVFOV.
8. Click the Apply button.

Now, the text is superimposed over the video image.

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