Working with Layout Grids119Working with the Alignment GridSelect the Alignment Grid from the Layout Grids sub-menu. The Viewing Areadisplays a grid of dots. When you place a Video Window, it ‘snaps’ to the gridboundaries.z Drag, drop and re-size a Video WindowIn the Camera Selection Area, click athumbnail image and drag its selectionboundary onto the Viewing Area grid. Theboundary will re-size.Release the mouse button. The selectionwill become a Video Window, and ‘snap’into alignment along the grid closest to it.12You can customize your layouts by applying one of the following grids:z Alignment Grid - creates a grid of dotswhere you can re-size Video Windowsof higher priority while reducing othersof lower priority.z Small Grid, Medium Grid and LargeGrid - creates a small, medium or largegrid where you can place VideoWindows in a tile-like manner. Usesmaller grids to place more VideoWindows or larger grids to view footage at a glance or from a distance. Video Windowsizes in grids can be increased to cover multiple grids.z Custom Grid - allows you to set uniform pixel dimensions for Video Windows.Proportions are fixed, i.e. the shape is constrained to a 4 x 3 ratio. For example, if youselected a horizontal of ‘615’, the vertical setting will become ‘461’ (and the grid isscaled down).To re-size the Video Window, click anycorner and drag the image outwards to‘snap’ to a larger grid area.10 Arranging and Saving Video Window Layouts
