Milestone XProtect Advanced VMS 2014 - Manual (Page 118)

Milestone XProtect ® Advanced
VMS 2014
Administrator's Manual
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When viewed via XProtect Smart Client or any other media, privacy masked areas appear as black
areas which no one can remove.
Red areas indicate the areas masked for privacy.
When you use privacy masks with PTZ cameras and you pan/tilt/zoom the camera, the selected area
masked for privacy does not move accordingly because the masked area is locked to the camera
image. As an alternative, some PTZ cameras support enabling of a position based privacy mask in the
camera itself.
In a Milestone Interconnect™ setup, the central system disregards privacy masking defined in a
remote system.
Enable/disable privacy masking
The privacy masking feature is disabled by default.
To enable/disable the privacy masking feature for a camera:

Select/clear the Privacy Mask tab's Privacy masking check box.
Specify privacy mask settings
When you enable privacy masking, the preview image is divided into selectable sections by a grid.
1. To define privacy mask regions, drag the mouse pointer over the required areas in the preview
image. Press down the left mouse button to select a grid section. Right mouse button clears a
grid section.