Navigating with the Timeline

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Navigating with the Timeline

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On the Timeline, green indicates recorded segments and dark gray indicates unrecorded segments. It is only possible to navigate through recorded segments. The scrollbar will skip unrecorded segments and jump to the next available recorded segment.

Press play_hovered to play

To skip to the next recorded segment

Press pause to pause

Press rewind_forward_hovered or Ctrl+Right Arrow to skip forward

Press Space to toggle between play and pause

Press rewind_backward_hovered or Ctrl+Left Arrow to skip to backwards

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To search through archive

Click on any desired position on the Timeline

Drag the scrollbar to the desired position

To scale the Timeline

Zoom in or out using the mouse wheel

Double-click on the position scrollbar to fully zoom out to one month

Use the zoom_in_hovered and zoom_out_hovered scale buttons at the left

To select a time segment on the Timeline

Click-and-drag on the green recording indicator

Right-click on the Timeline to open the context menu and choose Mark Selection Start (shortcut [), then Mark Selection End (shortcut ]) at a later point.

Click-and-drag the white line of the position indicator.

The selection will be highlighted with a blue block. You can click-and-drag the edges of the segment to adjust its length. Once a segment is selected, you can also use the context menu to Clear Selection, Zoom to Selection, or Add Bookmark.

Controlling playback speed

Fast Forward or Rewind buttons:

Press step_forward_hovered or Ctrl+Right Arrow to increase speed

Press step_backward_hoveredor Ctrl+Left Arrow to decrease speed

Available speeds on play are -16x, -8x, -4x, -2x, 1x, 2x, 4x, 8x, 16x

Available speeds on pause: -2x, -1x, -0.5x, -0.25x, 0x, 0.25x, 0.5x, 1x, 2x

The Speed Slider provides another way to move through the playback speed increments, where all the way to the left is the slowest speed and all the way to the right is the fastest speed.

Click on speed slider to change speed temporarily and then revert to 1x during play or 0x when paused. This is helpful for previewing images that bracket the current position.

Drag speed slider or use mouse wheel to set speed to one of the preset increments.

If you press a rewind button while in Live mode, the mode will switch to Archive playback. If you press fast forward while viewing archive, camera(s) will switch to Live mode if the current time is reached.

Previous/Next Frame (during Pause only):

Press forward_hovered or Ctrl+Right Arrow to skip to the next frame

Press backward_hovered or Ctrl+Left Arrow to skip to the previous frame