User`s guide
Table Of Contents
- Copyrights and Trademarks
- Disclaimer
- Welcome to NetVision
- Common / Daily Tasks- 5 Starting your Software and Logging In
- 6 Alarm / Reporting Features and 'Chatting'
- 7 Playing or Downloading Video Recordings- 7.1 Overview--Types of Playback
- 7.2 Playback--Technical Details
- 7.3 Synchronized Playback (v2.3 SP2)
- 7.4 Video Search (v2.3 SP2)
- 7.5 Searching for Motion
- 7.6 Working with the Playback Screen
- 7.7 Viewing and Printing 'Snapshots'
- 7.8 Working with the File List
- 7.9 Quad Playback
- 7.10 Server Management--Identifying Remote Servers for Playback
 
- 8 Viewing Live Cameras
- 9 Recording Camera-Views
 
- System Administration and Maintenance- 10 Tasks Applicable to Remote Stations and the Video Server- 10.1 PC Date and Time
- 10.2 Checking your Software Version
- 10.3 Introduction to Video File Management (Filekeeping and Housekeeping)
- 10.4 To Allow Using a Blank CD (Roxio - Easy CD Creator 5 basic with DirectCD)
- 10.5 Filekeeping (v2.3 SP2)
- 10.6 Housekeeping
- 10.7 Automatic Video File Management (Self Housekeeping)
 
- 11 Tasks Performed at the Video Server Only
 
- 10 Tasks Applicable to Remote Stations and the Video Server
- System Configuration
- Software Installation and Network Set Up- 19 PC Requirements
- 20 Software Installation or Upgrade
- 21 Network and Connectivity Issues- 21.1 General Network Requirements
- 21.2 IP Addressing on the Network
- 21.3 Network Services
- 21.4 Network Ports
- 21.5 To Connect via the Internet
- 21.6 Remote User Permissions
- 21.7 For Remote Viewing, Recording, Playback, and/or Audio Monitoring
- 21.8 For Alarm Alerts
- 21.9 For E-Mail Alerts
- 21.10 Windows Dial-Up Networking Connection (i.e., not via the Internet)
- 21.11 Network Usage
 
 
- Reference Topics- 22 Using the Small Remote Module
- 23 Remote Configuration
- 24 The WatchDog Feature
- 25 Hardware Reference
- 26 Troubleshooting
- 27 Using the ATM Interface Option
- 28 Working with the Older Playback Engines- 28.1 The Video Playback Feature (Micro DVR)
- 28.2 Step 1: Open the Video Player
- 28.3 Step 2: Local / Remote, and Connection Screen
- 28.4 Step 3: Searching for Video/Alarm Files
- 28.5 Smart Motion Search (Micro DVR)
- 28.6 Step 4: Playing a Video
- 28.7 Window Options and File Properties (Micro DVR, Quad Player)
- 28.8 Viewing and Printing 'Snapshots' (Micro DVR)
 
- 29 Viewing Cameras through a Web Browser
- 30 Setting up an IP Camera or Video Server module (v2.3 SP2)
- 31 Panoramic Video Surveillance--PVS (v2.3 SP2)
 

21-0400E v2.3.3 
Welcome Common  Admin 
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16.1 
Set up Cameras and Titles 
You can set the name to be associated with 
each camera. Cameras that are physically 
connected to a Video Server also need to be 
activated, and all other camera numbers 
MUST be de-activated. 
Locator: (Logged in at the Video Server as 
a "Supervisor"), 
Select: [Utility], then [Camera Setting]. 
When the screen appears, make your desired 
selection(s). 
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16.1.1 
(List of Cameras) 
Cam ID: This is each camera number/ID 
pertaining to the physical connections to the 
Video Server
 (see "Related Topics"). 
Camera Title: Enter a suitable description for 
the camera location/view. 
Active: Select this (only) for each camera 
that is connected to your Video Server. 
Tip: Be sure to de-select all cameras that are not 
present. 
16.1.2 
[Video Control] 
This allows controlling the brightness, and 
colour balance for each camera to adjust for 
different lighting conditions, etc. The 
selections include Camera, Brightness, 
Contrast, Saturation U, Saturation V, and 
Hue. 
[Default]: This returns to the default colour parameters 
for the selected camera. 
16.1.3 
[Subtitle Setter]  
(Custom Titles for Cameras) 
ATM Interface Option: Subtitles should NOT be 
used with the ATM Interface option as they may 
interfere with ATM overlays. 
Related Topic: 27 Using the ATM Interface Option 
Each camera can have up to 3 custom titles 
associated with it. These titles can be 
positioned anywhere in the camera-view, and 
are visible at the Video Server and remote 
stations. 
Enable Subtitle Retain 
Check to Enable Subtitle Retain: Select this 
to have the titles retained whenever the 
NetVision software (and/or Video Server) is 
restarted. 
Subtitle Setup 
1
st
 Field (Title Text): Select a camera and 
subtitle number, and then enter the text for 
your camera title here; 
[Font]: This allows selecting different styles of 
letters; 
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Camera, Audio, and PTZ Settings 










