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camera that points at the door. When you drag the archived alarm from the Session Manager to the custom window, the video from the

camera that points at the door loads and plays, cued to the time of the alarm.

If the system administrator has not associated a camera with the alarm or event and a camera is switched to the window, VMX300(-E)

loads and plays the archived video for the currently switched camera, cued to the date/time of the dragged alarm or event.

7. If desired, switch a (different) camera to the custom window. To switch a camera, drag the camera to the custom window either from a map

or from the Device List. The gadget for the archiving device the camera is connected to appears in the window’s control bar. If there is

archived video for that camera, it loads and plays in the window’s display area, cued to the date/time selected in the Event Picker.

Figure 57. Using an Alarm or Event to Locate Archived Video

TIPS:

•If you know which camera the desired video originated from, you can switch the camera to the custom window before locating the

alarm or event. If the camera is already switched to the window, you do not need to switch it again. If you do not know which camera

the video originated from, ﬁrst locate the alarm or event and drag it to the window, then switch different cameras to the window

successively until you ﬁnd the one you want.

•You can prevent VMX300(-E) from automatically loading the video associated with an alarm or event by dragging the alarm or event to

the custom window’s Event Picker instead of to the custom window’s display area.

•If your installation has multiple cameras and you have more than one custom window to view video in, you can play back synchro-

nized archived video from several cameras simultaneously. Select the desired date/time in each window’s Event Picker. Drag a

different camera to each custom window. There will be a delay between windows equivalent to the length of time it took you to drag

the next camera to its window.

•You can track a moving object, such as a person or vehicle, in a single custom window by successively dragging adjacent cameras to

the window. Suppose the object moves across the range of Camera 1 to within the range of Camera 2. First, set the cursor mode to

Synchronized, as described in Controlling a DX9000 DVR - Playing Archived Video. Now, drag Camera 1 to the window and start the

video playing at the desired time. When the object leaves the range of Camera 1, drag Camera 2 to the window. The video from

Camera 2 automatically cues to the Event Picker time, which is synchronized with the playback time, picking up where the Camera 1

video left off.