Privacy masking functionality and availability depend on the selected surveillance system.
You can use privacy masking to protect private or public areas in live and recorded video by blocking out certain areas in a camera's field of view. For example, if a camera overlooks the windows of a private residence, you can apply privacy masks to the windows.
In this example, privacy masks are applied to five windows in an adjacent building.
In this example, two types of privacy masks are applied. The solid gray area is covered permanently while the blurred area can be lifted, but only by users with sufficient rights to lift privacy masks.
Privacy masks are applied to areas in cameras' field of view by system administrators, and as such you cannot add or remove them from views in XProtect Smart Client. You can, however, temporarily remove liftable privacy masks from the views, depending on your surveillance system and user rights.
For more information about lifting privacy masks, see Lift and apply privacy masks.
You can also add additional privacy masks when you export video. For more information, see Mask areas in a recording during export.
Note: If you export video that contains privacy masks, the export process may take significantly longer and the export file size may be larger than usual, particularly if you export in XProtect format.
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