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You can use thumbnail search for a quick search for a moment of interest by dividing a selected time period into equally sized fragments.

To use thumbnail searchThumbnail search is used to quickly search for the required moment by sequentially dividing the selected time interval into fragments of the set duration. To do this, do the following:

  1. Open the required layout (see Configuring layouts).
  2. Set a
  3. Click the required camera.
  4. Click the Search button located in the lower right corner of the surveillance window (see Switching to Search in archive).
  5. Set the search interval (see Setting a search interval).
  6. In the Interval field, specify the duration of the video fragments in the MM:SS format:
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  7. Click the Image Added button.
  8. Select Thumbnail search.
  9. Set the parameters specified in the table:
    ParameterValueDescription
    Thumbnail search
    Interval

    Set the time interval. We recommend setting the time range from 10 seconds and more

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    If there are omissions in the archive, they aren't taken into account during the division into fragments. The archive with omissions is processed as the continuous sequence of data, that is, the parts with the missing data are logically "glued", after which the received continuous sequence is divided into equal fragments.

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    You can decrease the numerical value by using this button
    [minutes], [seconds]Set the time interval in the range [00, 60].The default value is 00:00. If you don't set the duration of fragments, the search divides
  10. If you don't specify the duration (00:00), the search splits the selected time interval into 12 equal fragments.
  11. If you set the duration other than 0, the search splits
  12. the selected time interval into fragments of
  13. the specified
  14. equal duration
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    You can increase the numerical value by using this button
  18. We recommend setting the interval to no less than 10 seconds.
  19. Click the
  20. Search
  21. Search Image Added button.
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  22. Once started, the search can be stopped
  23. You can stop the searching process at any time.

  24. To do
  25. For this, click the Stop Image Added button, which

  26. appears instead of
  27. replaces the

  28. Search
  29. button that starts the searching process.

The search results panel displays frames that

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are divided into fragments of equal specified duration.
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The number of displayed fragments on the results panel depends on the screen resolution and the fragment size. You can change the fragment size by using the Image Added button.

On the search control panel—the number of found fragments.

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If you

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don't find

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the required moment

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, you must search again: double-

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clicking the found moment

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activates the search

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within the time interval from

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the given moment to the next one.

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You must keep searching until the

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required moment

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.

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For the information on playing back video fragments, see Playback of video fragments.