User Manual

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Bidirectional Talk
Click and hold this button to enable bidirectional talk. This feature allows
the user to broadcast audio from their computer to the camera. While
this is active, the camera’s speaker is shut off to keep audio quality high.
Section 3: These options are used to access camera setup options (Setup), configure alarms (Alarm), or logout of
the web user interface (Logout).
Section 4: These options are used to access the live view interface (Live), access video metadata using the AI Live
menu, access playback, as well as a shortcut to cloud storage. For more information about Amcrest Cloud storage,
please visit https://amcrest.com/cloud
Section 5: This bar allows the user to change video settings for the live playback screen. See the below table for an
explanation of the video settings:
Button
Function Name
Function Description
Image Adjustment
This button opens the image adjustment toolbar, which allows the user to
adjust brightness, contrast, saturation, and hue for the live feed’s picture.
Adapt/Original Size
This button allows the user to switch between displaying the original size of the
stream in its set resolution, or to adapt to the size of the monitor display the
feed is being viewed on.
Full Screen
This button allows the user to make the live feed go into full screen mode.
Double click the mouse or click the ESC button to exit full screen mode.
Width/Height Ratio
This button allows the user to change the width/height ratio for the live feed.
The options are Original and Adaptive. Original uses the aspect ratio of the
stream’s set resolution, and adaptive fits the feed to the aspect ratio of the
monitor display the feed is being viewed on.
IVS Overlay
This button allows the user to enable or disable IVS overlays on the live view
screen.
Stream Fluency
This button allows the user to change the stream fluency. There are 3 options.
Realtime reduces delay and decreases fluency, and Fluency has a larger delay,
but the video stream becomes more fluid.
Pan Tilt Zoom
This button allows the user to show or hide the pan tilt zoom control panel on
the live view screen.
Section 6: This section of the Live tab shows the picture that the camera is broadcasting. The bitrate is shown in
the top left corner, the native resolution is shown in the top right corner, the time stamp is shown below the
native resolution, and the camera type is shown in the bottom left corner.
Section 7: This section of the Live tab shows the PTZ functionality of the camera, zoom, focus, as well as other PTZ
functions such as tour presets, etc.
PTZ Control
The PTZ tab allows the user to pan, tilt, zoom and focus the camera. Below is a screenshot of the PTZ Control
menu.