Work with Timeline

Multi-Recording Playback allows you to simultaneously watch videos recorded on one day or at the same time by different cameras. All recordings are lined up on the timeline. You can easily find the recording you are looking for by clicking a specific time on this day or during the hour, and play it with the recording player on this page.

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Recording Timeline

On timeline, various colors represent different events when the videos were recorded:

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Find and Play Recordings with Timeline

To find and play recordings with the controller panel:

To find and play recordings with on-screen buttons:

Manage Layouts

DSM admin (or user belongs to the administrators group) and users with the manager privilege can configure layout settings. To customize the timeline display, click Management and follow the steps below.

  1. Click Add to create a new layout, or click any existing layouts on the left panel to edit.
  2. Enter a layout name in the Name field.
  3. Select a type of layout from any of the following. You can click Customize to recompose your layout by using drag and drop, except for 1 Channel and Camera Group. Click Reset anytime you want to reset the layout to the default pattern.
  4. Drag cameras from the left side onto your desired position of the layout, or remove the cameras by dragging them back to the left side of the layout.
  5. To see a snapshot of the current layout, click Preview. To preserve the camera's original image aspect ratio to avoid image stretching when you enter live view, tick Fixed aspect ratio and then click Save.
  6. To set the current layout as the default page when you enter live view, tick Set as my default. Every user can set his own default live view layout. If the default layout no longer exists, the first authorized layout of a user will be applied instead.
  7. To remove an unwanted layout from the layout list, select the layout and click Delete .
  8. Click Close when finished.