Video Desktop

The Video Desktop allows operators to display and monitor, in real-time, video cameras configured and connected to the network.

Displaying a Video View

1 - From the EntraPass main window, select the Desktops  tab, then select the desktop dedicated to Video. The Video View window appears in the desktop.

NOTE: The Video desktop will be empty the first time you open it and “No video view selected” is displayed.

2 - Select video view from the   drop-down list at the bottom of the window. You can edit the view ( Video view  > select a specific View  > Modify Video view components button).

3 - The buttons in the lower part of the window allow you to perform various tasks:

Buttons	Description
	Use these buttons to select a size for the displayed video. Note: A bigger image requires more process power. Therefore, selecting a big­ger image may result in lower process power.
	These buttons are configured in the Operator security level. They enable opera­tors to perform pre programmed tasks such as viewing video playback with a fixed or variable delay, generating video events with fixed or custom parame­ters. For details on programing this buttons, see Security Level Definition.
	Use these buttons to Create and Edit video views.
	Use this Show view selector button to display a mosaic view of all the cameras, or one of the cameras defined in the system.
	Help and Close buttons. These are EntraPass standard buttons.

4 - Click   the Show view selector  button to display the View selector window. This small window allows you to so select a specific view or to monitor a specific camera pattern. For instance, if you select a cell in the View selector, the sequence is interrupted to display the selected cell.

NOTE: When you open the Video view selector while a camera is recording, the camera button will blink until the end of the recording.

5 - From the displayed view, you can click a dome camera button to display control buttons for this camera (movement, zoom, focus).   Available options depend on the Digital Video Management system connected to your system. Please refer to your DVMS documentation for additional information.

NOTE: If your dome camera is set with pre programmed movement patterns, you can define a view displaying a pattern composed of one or many of these patterns. For more details, see Video Views Definition.