Function

The video monitor is used for displaying and controlling surveillance windows.

Functions

The video monitor is used:

  1. to display images from video surveillance cameras;
  2. to control surveillance modes;
  3. to graphically process images from video surveillance cameras;
  4. to control recording of video sequences from surveillance cameras;
  5. to work with video archives;
  6. 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:

  1. buttons used to alter the number of surveillance windows on the monitor;
  2. button used to control the monitor layout;
  3. buttons used to alter surveillance windows;
  4. 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.
 
Hotkeys for convenient monitor and surveillance windows operation are listed in table. 

Hotkeys

Action

Comments

0 .. 9 Num (numeric keypad)

Active window selecting

The sequence number of the selected window corresponds to the button number. To choose a 2-digit number window, quickly enter two digits without delay.

F1 .. F6

Select the number of windows displayed on the monitor

F1 – 1 window
F2 – 4 windows
F3 – 9 windows
F4 – 16 windows etc

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).

F7Displaying 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 actions menu of the Main control panel.

In the video surveillance mode – call the actions menu of the Main control panel		 
F9Calling up the functions menu of the surveillance window 

Ctrl + R
Ctrl + T

Video recording control,

Ctrl + R – video recording startup
Ctrl + T – video recording stop

Shift + LeftClick/RightClick

Image scaling in the window

Shift + LeftClick - step-by-step zoom-in
Shift + RightClick - step-by-step image reduction

Tab

Entering and quitting archive mode

See Working with video archives section.

Ctrl + "/" (numeric keypad)
Ctrl + Spacebar
Ctrl + * (numeric keypad)
Ctrl + Left/Right

Archive playback control (playback control panel).

Ctrl + "/" – playback
Ctrl + Spacebar – stop
Ctrl + * – pause
Ctrl + Left/Right – previous/next frame (in pause mode)

Ctrl + A/D

Camera arming

Ctrl + A – camera arming
Ctrl + D – camera disarming

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 + P – frame printing

Ctrl + W

Increase image contrast

Maximum contrast is set. To retract the previous value, click the hotkeys once more.

Ctrl + S
Ctrl + H

Setting camera mask

Ctrl + S – show camera mask Ctrl + H – hide camera mask
See Use of video detection tools section.

Ctrl+LEnable/disable PTZ control using the mouseSee Mouse PTZ control.