The Video Tab

By default, the Video tab is open in the upper left panel of the Secondary Window in all views, except the Live Incidents view, in which it fills the entire window. In the other views, if you double-click the Video tab playback window (Video Window), it expands to fill the width of the Secondary Window, having the same look and feel as a Spot Monitor. You still have access to the Video Control tab.

To restore the video window to normal size, double-click it again.

If you want to display video from multiple cameras, you can use video layouts to divide the Video Window into multiple windows. You can display live or recorded video from different (or the same) cameras in each window.

When you hover your mouse over the Status Bar, the Video Control ribbon appears. The following screenshot shows the left half of the ribbon, featuring the available multi-screen layouts:

Select a layout from the icons on the ribbon. Initially, video from the selected camera (indicated by the Camera button on the Task Bar) will play in all windows in your layout.

The following is a screenshot of video in the 1x1 window layout. The selected screen is outlined in blue:

To play video from another camera in another window, click the window to select it; the window will become outlined in blue.

Enter the camera number on your keyboard and click Enter or drag a camera from the Camera Tree onto the selected window; video from this camera will play there. The selected window is the window over which you have control, using the Video Control tab, unless you click the Control All button; in this case, every command you enter applies to all windows.

You can toggle between viewing live video as it is being recorded and viewing previously recorded video, using the LIVE/REC button on this tab.

You can select a different video layout at any time, allowing you to view video from several cameras at the same time on different windows. For more information about video layouts, see Video Layouts on page 1.

Playing Video from an Entire Camera Group

To play video from all cameras in a camera group, select the camera group’s title from the camera tree.

Drag and drop the camera group title into the Video Window. The Video Window automatically adjusts to the most efficient layout for the number of cameras in the group, taking the following into consideration:

Playback capacity limits – Your computer must have sufficient capacity to simultaneously play video from the number of cameras in the camera group. If a limit is in place, the number of video feeds displayed is restricted to that of the limit.
For more details, see the Synergy Setup Wizards Guide on the Synectics Global Support Portal.
User permissions – The user must have permission to view video from the cameras in question, and also to use the chosen layout.

For example, in the case shown, the camera group contains four cameras. The Video Window automatically displays them in a quad layout. If there were eight cameras in the group, a three by three layout would be the most suitable option.

The Video Context Menu

The Video Context menu is accessed by right-clicking anywhere in the selected video window.

Using this menu, you can quickly navigate to both live and recorded video, perform video and incident-related operations (these are described in more detail in the incident chapter) and switch between different video layouts. You can also display POS transactions on screen.

Note: The options available in this menu depend on user group permissions. For information, see your system administrator.

Video Control Overlay

One of the options that can be selected from the menu, a Video Control Overlay, looking like a faded version of the Video Control tab, appears at the bottom of the video screen when you place your mouse anywhere in the Video Window. This overlay gives you the same controls that are in the Video Control tab. This is useful if you have expanded the Video Window to fill the entire screen and can no longer see the Video Control tab. The overlay is also useful to quickly control video in an individual window in a video multi-screen layout.

For further information about each button on the Video Control tab, see The Video Control Tab on page 1.

Disable Hotswap Playback

The Disable Hotswap Playback option can be used in situations where the hotswap recordings have failed but there could be recordings on disk. When you select this, a message is displayed and the video switches to live. Any video requests from that point in will only look at the PSN and there will be no hotswap.

Drag Digital Zoom

There are additional options available that allow you to zoom into the video screen and add comments using this context menu. The Drag Digital Zoom feature allows you to select a region on the screen. This will be highlighted in red. When you press the centre of the highlighted area, it will then zoom into the area. You can undertake this action multiple times. The comments feature allows you to add ad-hoc comments to incident playback video by selecting Incident Video Comment. See your system administrator for details on how to configure these.

For information on defining incident areas, see Playing Incident Video on page 1.

Image Capture

There are also additional options that allow you to refine image and series capture options, removing BMP and PNG formats from the context menu. See your system administrator for details on how to configure this.

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