Milestone XProtect Smart Client 2013 - Manual (Page 120)

Milestone XProtect ® Smart Client
2014
User's Manual
www.milestonesys.com 120 Investigating incidents
The timeline
The timeline displays an overview of periods with recordings from all cameras displayed in your
current view. For example, the timeline is displayed on the Playback and Sequence Explorer tabs, in
independent playback mode, and when you add or edit bookmarks.
Two timelines are displayed in the timeline area (see "The timeline buttons and controls" on page
119
). The upper timeline shows the selected camera’s recording periods and the lower one is for all
the cameras in the view including the selected camera. If you have linked floating windows, these will
also be included on the lower timeline.
Drag the timeline to the right to move backward in time; drag to the left to move forward in time. You
can also use the scroll wheel of your mouse to move the timeline backward and forward. To zoom the
range of the timeline so it increases or decreases the units of time, press CTRL and use the scroll
wheel at the same time.
The timeline is displayed in light-red to indicate recording, red for motion, light-green for incoming
audio, and green for outgoing audio. The Timeline time is indicated by a blue vertical line.
You can switch between a simple and an advanced timeline by toggling the Simple/Advanced
Timeline button in the bottom right corner. If you select the simple timeline, you only see the shuttle
slider, the time span slider, the Play Backward and Play Forward buttons and the Next Image and
Previous Image buttons.
The first time you open the XProtect Smart Client – Player, it opens in simple timeline mode.
On the timeline, to the far right, click the small question mark for a legend of color codes.
The timeline and Milestone Interconnect
If the selected camera is part of a Milestone Interconnect setup, and it is an interconnected device, the
timeline for the selected camera displays the retrieval data. Retrievals that have taken place are
displayed as recordings. On the timeline, shading lets you quickly identify which periods contain
recordings and which periods you need to request a retrieval (see "Retrieve data from Milestone
Interconnect" on page 122) for.

Dark gray indicates that there are no recordings for the time.

A dark checkerboard pattern indicates that no recordings have been requested and therefore it
is unknown whether there are recordings.

Red shading indicates that there is a recording.