SCW Viewstation - Live View

In this episode of In the Trenches, SCW’s expert discusses how to access the Live View tab on the control panel.

Our speaker today is:

Andrew

Andrew:

Live view. Once we've added our system from device management, we're going to go back to control panel. We're going to open our live view tab, and when you do this, it's going to create a tab at the top. Multiple live view tabs can be opened, they can be slid around and they can be broken off to be put on a secondary monitor if needed. Once we're on the screen, we're going to see our systems that we've added in a column to our left here. Double clicking, we'll populate the cameras to the screen. Now it's going to fill the available windows if we want to get more than four. Down here on the lower left, we've got our grid division. Some of these are going to be more useful than others. Just go to the eight and play again. You will have to fill the windows by double clicking again after you change the division. And once we're on this screen, double clicking will full screen. You can even go to a further full screen escape, backs you out. And double clicking again takes you back to the multi-view.

Now at any time, we can stop our video down here with the x double clicking autoplay everything. Again, one of our other options we get is we can drag these cameras over into the windows that we want and say we want to save this layout for next time. Down here at the bottom we've got our little grid with the floppy disc symbol. We can save this layout for the future. We're going to name it test. Okay. Alright, so if we're in a spot that we don't like and it's a division that we don't want, we can go back to our custom video over here on the left video channel and view, this is going to show us any custom views we've built previously, as well as some pre-built ones, 1, 4, 9, 16, and 25. So if we'd like to return to our custom view, we're just going to go back to test here and play, and that'll return us to the custom view we had previously.

Now, another thing we can do here is change the video stream quality. So right now we're viewing third stream, which is a very low quality. If we want to change this to the higher quality, you can right click the camera and go to Main, or you get an option to right click and go to main here as well. So you've done that. It's going to switch you over to the high quality stream once we're on this live view area. You're going to get some options down here for each camera. So we're going to get a bar down here and get some options. We've got a snapshot. This is just going to take a snapshot of our live video. We've got to start local recordings. This is going to force the system to record what's on this camera, whether or not it's recorded motion or whatever other triggers that you have. It's going to override that. We've got some PTZ control for our pan tilt zoom cameras, digital zoom, which is going to allow us to get a zoom on a particular area by clicking and dragging. And that's going to bump that up to the full screen size

Andrew:

Disabled digital Zoom will return. You also got an audio on option two-Way, audio on and off option. And we've got some other point of sale services here as well. You're going to get these for each of the cameras. And then if you'd like to stop your live view, you're going to press the X at the bottom.