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Configuring Main System
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1.2.9 Setting Text Overlay
You can align camera name, time stamp and triggered input name to different positions for each
channel.
To access this feature, click the Configure button (No.14, Figure 1-2), select System Configure, and
select Text Overlay Setting to display the Text Overlay Setting dialog box, and select one Camera to
be defined.
Figure 1-21
[Camera/Time/IO Alarm Text]
Print on video file: Displays camera ID, location name, date and time on the recorded video.
Note: Text overlay is not supported when standard format codec is enabled.
Print on screen (Only for IO alarm): Displays the name of triggered input device on the camera
screen. For this function to work, it is required to map a camera to an input device, see Overlaying
Input Device Name onto Screen upon Input Trigger in Chapter 6.
Note: Up to 5 input names can be stamped on each channel when inputs are triggered.
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