Video Search: Thumbnails

Video search enhances the player experience and allows users to quickly preview playback video

Updated over a week ago

At Arcules, we're excited to offer you a more intuitive and efficient way to navigate through your video history. Our enhanced video search feature, complete with user-friendly thumbnails, is designed to streamline your experience, saving you precious time when you're looking back for specific moments, people, vehicles, or objects.

Details

  • Search supports all cameras in the organization

  • Users can browse thumbnail images from video recordings in varying time increments and thumbnail size

  • Default filter is on motion which can be toggled off

  • Refine your motion results with an area of interest

  • Only available on the web app

How to

Easily access the search function from any Arcules video player. Simply click on the video search icon located at the bottom right of the player. To go back, just click the exit icon in the top right corner to close the search interface.


After clicking the search icon, you'll see the search interface which includes several helpful tools.

Search Header Items

  • Camera selector: Click to select a different camera from the same view. Note: This is only available when entering video search via a view in the Views page.

  • Date and time picker: See a new set of results for a different time period.

  • Time between images: Adjust the number of seconds between the thumbnail results.

  • Image size: Adjust the size of thumbnails to be smaller to fit more on your screen or larger to see more detail.

Search Drawer

  • Motion filter: By default, video search assumes you want to search for motion events for the entire FOV, but if that’s not the case, then you can choose to see all thumbnails from a particular time period by disabling this motion switch. This way you can look for a particular object showing up or disappearing on a particular date, without involving motion.

  • Area of interest filter: You can constrain your motion search search to an area of interest in the camera’s field of view. To do so, toggle the area of interest filter on and draw a polygon.

Thumbnail Actions

Clicking the play button on any thumbnail brings up the video player. Here, you can view the playback, navigate through the timeline, and export clips for evidence or review.

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