User Layouts

User Layouts

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User Layouts

User layouts are custom, multi-screen layouts for video playback that you create to view footage in configurations that best suit your requirements and are the most useful. You can create entirely new layouts, or edit existing layouts. You can save layouts for future use and edit them, as required.

Creating a New Layout

Note: The current user will only be able to create a new layout if they have user group permission to do so. See your administrator for further details.

Open the Video Layouts menu, as shown in the following screenshot:

Click the Edit Video Layouts button in the User Layouts group (all previously created custom layouts are represented by buttons in this group). The Select Layout dialog appears.

Click the New Layout button. The Design Video Window Layout dialog appears, displaying the Define Layout window.

The Define Layout window is a blank canvas on which to create your layout. You can add multiple windows, size them, and move them around.

Click the Add Window button and click your cursor in the area you want to place a window on the layout. A small square, outlined in red, appears in the Define Layout window.

You can add as many windows as will fit in the window. Resize them by dragging the lower right corner with your cursor. Drag the corner down to increase the window height; drag it to the right to increase the window width.

To move a window, place your cursor anywhere inside the window and drag it.

Note: You can increase your mouse sensitivity by increasing the number on the Mouse Sensitivity dial. This causes the mouse to respond more readily to slight adjustments.

To remove a window, select it and click Remove Window.

To remove all windows, click Clear All.

To cancel a layout design in progress, click Cancel. The Select Layout dialog again appears.

To save the layout, click Save. The Enter Layout Name dialog appears.

Enter a name and click OK. The Select Layout dialog again appears, with a button for the new layout on the User Configured tab.

Click Close if you are finished creating new layouts, or click New Layout if you want to create another.

Editing an Existing Layout

Open the Video Layouts menu, as shown in the following screenshot:

Click the Edit Video Layouts button in the User Layouts group. The Select Layout dialog appears.

Buttons for any existing custom layouts are located on the User Configured tab. Click the button for the layout that you want to edit. The Design Video Window Layout dialog appears, with its name following the words Define Layout near the top of the dialog.

Click a window to select it and make edits. You can resize, add, and remove windows, as described in the previous section, Creating a New Layout.

When you are finished making edits, click Save.

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