Milestone XProtect Smart Client 2013 - Manual (Page 84)

Milestone XProtect ® Smart Client
2014
User's Manual
www.milestonesys.com 84 Defining your views
Hotspots
About hotspots
A hotspot lets you view magnified and/or higher quality video from a selected camera in a dedicated
position in a view. Hotspots are useful because you can use a low image quality and/or frame rate for
cameras in the view's regular positions and a high image quality and/or frame rate for the hotspot. This
saves bandwidth on your remote connections.
There are two types of hotspots:
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Global hotspots, which display the selected camera regardless of whether the camera is in the
main window or in a secondary display
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Local hotspots, which only display the selected camera of the local display
It is a good idea to have a hotspot in one of the view's larger positions, for example, the large position
in a 1+7 view:
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If a position in one of your views contains a hotspot:
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When you click a camera in a view, the hotspot position updates with that camera's feed
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The title bar displays the hotspot icon:
When you view live or recorded video, you can double-click a hotspot (or any other camera position in
a view) to maximize it. When you do this, the video in the hotspot is displayed in full quality, regardless
of your image quality selection. If you want to make sure that the selected image quality also applies
when maximized, in Setup mode, in the Properties pane, select Keep when maximized.
Add a hotspot to a view
1. In setup mode, in the System Overview pane, click and drag the Hotspot item to the required
position in the view.
Tip: Note that the position now displays a hotspot icon: to indicate that it is a hotspot.
2. Specify the properties for the hotspot (see "Hotspot settings" on page 84) in the Properties
pane. To save bandwidth, you can specify a low image quality for the other positions in your
view and a high quality for the hotspot.
Hotspot settings
In the Properties (see "Camera settings" on page 57) pane, you can specify the settings for the
hotspot. The Live Stream, Image Quality, Frame Rate, and Maintain Image Aspect Ratio settings
apply to all cameras in the hotspot.
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