Milestone XProtect Smart Client 2013 - Manual (Page 82)

Milestone XProtect ® Smart Client
2014
User's Manual
www.milestonesys.com 82 Defining your views
About the camera navigator
The camera navigator allows you to see several cameras in relation to each other, for example, as
they are laid out according to a floor plan. This can be useful if you would like to follow someone or
something from one camera to another, for example, to follow suspects as they move around a
building. By setting up your cameras according to their location on a map or floor plan, you can
navigate from one camera to the next from a single view.
On the Live and Playback tabs, you can see the video from the current camera in the camera
navigator view, with thumbnail views of all the nearby cameras sorted according to proximity on the
pane on the right. When you point to any of the other cameras, either in the main view or the pane on
the right, the camera is shown highlighted in red. You can click directly on the camera icons or in the
pane on the right to change from one camera to the next.
You can base your views on several maps that link to each other through hot zones, allowing you to
follow movement from a camera on one map to another camera on a sub-map, just as you would a
person moving from one floor to another or outside your building. The Sub-Maps pane gives you
access to the cameras set up on maps that are linked via hot zones on a map.
When you click from one camera to the next, a Back button appears next to the Home button above
the camera preview pane. This lets you click back through your camera selection or home to your
default camera view. In the Sub-Maps view, you can also click Up to a previous map or Home to your
default view.
Camera navigator settings
In the Properties (see "Camera settings" on page 57) pane, you can specify these settings for the
camera navigator.