VIGI Security Manager User Guide

Playback

This function allows you to play the history recordings and edit them, such as taking schreenshots and exporting clips. You can easily find the recordings based on the channel, date, and recording types. This chapter contains the following sections:

? Playback the Recordings

? Playback Operations

5. 1 Playback the Recordings

Follow the steps below to start playback.

1. Click Playback on the top, and then click an NVR to select the channels from the right panel. Click Apply .

Note : All the cameras managed by VIGI Security Manager directly are listed under the virtual NVR, and you can play the recordings of them only when the host manages them locally.

2. Select the date from the calendar. The blue points on the calendar mean that the channels have recordings on that day.

3. (Optional) Select the recording types by clicking the checkboxes of Continuous Recording and Motion Detection Recordings .

5. 2 Playback Operations

In Playback, you can use the toolbar and time bar at the bottom to adjust the display, edit and export the recordings.

5. 2. 1 Basic Playback Operations

Click to take a screenshot. To open the saved path, click at the top right corner. To change the saved path, refer to 6. 4 File Settings .

To open the saved path, click at the top right corner. To change the saved path, refer to 6. 4 File Settings .

5. 2. 2 Edit Recordings

Follow the steps below to clip video files.

1. In Playback, specify a channel and date to list the recordings in the time bar. Click .

2. Move on the time bar, or enter the start time and end time below to adjust the recording length. On the time bar, scroll up or down the mouse wheel to expand or contract the time line. Click Export .

3. Select an export format and click Export .

Note : This window will not pop up if you click Remember and don’t ask again or set the export format in Settings. For details, refer to 6. 5 Export Format .