You can impose a privacy mask upon video image to hide parts of the scene from viewing:

• live videos;
• recorded videos;
• exported videos and still frames.

Masking function works only for users whose role has the View Masked Video parameter set to OFF (see Creating and configuring roles).

To configure privacy masking, do the following:

1. Select the Object Tracker object and click the button.

   For your convenience, you can click the button and configure the mask on a still frame / snapshot. To undo, click this button again.

   
   

   You cannot do it if the button is depressed (see Putting a text over the camera window).

   
   

2. In the FoV, set the nodes of the closed area you want to obscure. 

   

   When the area is being constructed, the nodes are connected by a two-color dotted line which outlines the area's borders.

   
   

   Action	Result
   Click in the viewing tile	Creates a new area node
   Right-click on a created node	Deletes the area node
   Position the cursor on a node and hold down the left mouse button while you move the mouse	Moves the area node
   Click the button.	Deletes the area

   
   

3. You can mask the selected area with black matte (by default), or pixelate it. To pixelate the area, do the following:

   1. Click .

   2. Select the checkbox.
      

   3. Click the OK button.

4. You can specify several areas.
5. Click the Apply button.

Mask configuration is complete. When you view video from this camera, the selected area will be hidden.