You can superimpose a text over video in the 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 Surveillance window, do the following:

  1. Select a Camera object and click .

    Note

    • You cannot do it if the button is clicked (see Configuring a privacy mask). 
    • For your convenience, you can click the button and configure the mask on a freeze frame. To undo, click this button again.

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

    Note

    To remove the area, click the button.

  3. Click .

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

    Attention!

    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 drop-down list.
  6. Click the OK button.
  7. If required, you can set multiple text areas in different parts of FOV.
  8. Click the Apply button.

Now, the text is superimposed over the video image.

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