User Manual

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Table Of Contents

Chapter 1 Product introduction
- Product overview
- Default settings to access the device
Chapter 2 Installation
- Installation environment
- Unpacking the recorder and its accessories
- Back panel
- Monitor connections
- Audio inputs and output
- RS-485 port
- RS-232 port
- PTZ dome camera set up
- Connecting a KTD-405 keypad and dome camera to the recorder
- Brackets
Chapter 3 Getting started
- Turning on and off the recorder
- Using the setup wizard
Chapter 4 Recording
- Initializing the recording settings
- Defining a recording schedule
- Daily schedules
- Holiday schedules
- Motion detection schedules
- External alarm schedules
- Protecting recorded files
- Manual recording
- Capturing text insertions
Chapter 5 Alarm settings
- Description of alarm notification types
- Setting up motion detection
- Setting up external alarms
- Triggering or clearing alarm outputs manually
- Setting up system notifications
- Detecting video loss
- Detecting video tampering
Chapter 6 Network settings
- Configuring general network settings
- Configuring DDNS
- Configuring an NTP server
- Configuring email
- Configuring UPnP
- Configuring SNMP
- Configuring an FTP server to store snapshots
- Configuring a remote alarm host
- Configuring multicast
- Configuring the server and HTTP ports
- Configuring the RTSP service port
- Telnet setup
- Checking network status
- Exporting network packet data
Chapter 7 HDD management
- Initializing HDDs
- Setting the HDD quota
- Setting the HDD property
- Checking HDD status
- Configuring HDD alarms
- Checking the S.M.A.R.T. information
- Searching video using disk analysis
- Configuring redundant recording
- Setting up HDD groups
Chapter 8 Operating instructions
- Controlling the recorder
- Using the front panel
- Using the mouse
- Using the IR remote control
- Menu overview
Chapter 9 Live view
- Description of live view
- Video output
- Controlling live view
- Single and multiview display formats
- Sequencing cameras
- Accessing frequently used commands
- Configuring live view
- Configuring time and date
- General settings
- V-stream encoding
Chapter 10 Controlling a PTZ camera
- Configuring PTZ settings
- Calling up presets, preset tours and shadow tours
- Setting and calling up presets
- Setting and calling up preset tours
- Setting and calling up a shadow tour
Chapter 11 Playing back a recording
- Overview of the playback window
- Instant playback
- All-day playback
- Searching recorded video
- Playing back recordings by time and video type
- Playing back recordings by event
- Slideshow of snapshots
- Playing back recordings from the system log
- Motion search
- Playing back frame-by-frame
- Digital zoom in playback
Chapter 12 Archiving recorded files
- Archiving files
- Creating and archiving video clips
- Archiving snapshots
- Managing backup devices
- Playing back archived files on a PC
Chapter 13 Recorder management
- Configuring the RS-232 port
- Updating system firmware
- Restoring default settings
- Viewing system information
- Searching system logs for events
Chapter 14 Camera settings
- Configuring the OSD settings
- Setting up privacy masking
- Adjusting video image settings
- Watermarking
- Hiding a camera image from view
Chapter 15 User management
- Adding a new user
- Customizing a user’s access privileges
- Deleting a user
- Modifying a user
- Changing the Admin password
Chapter 16 Using the web browser
- Windows Vista and 7 users
- Accessing the web browser
- Web browser overview
- Using the web browser to configure the device
- Searching and playing back recorded video
- Searching for event logs
- Controlling a PTZ dome camera in the web browser
- Text overlay
- Capturing text insertions
Appendix A Specifications
Appendix B PTZ protocols
Appendix C Port forwarding information
Appendix D KTD-405 keypad
- Supported firmware
- Wiring the keypad
- Setting the keypad to work with the recorder
- Operating the keypad
Appendix E Maximum pre-recording times
Appendix F Supported PTZ commands
Appendix G Default menu settings
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. Playback control toolbar:

Reverse play the recording. Click again to pause.

Stop playback. Timeline jumps back to 00:00 time (midnight).

Play recording. Click again to pause.

Forward skip by 30 seconds.

Reverse skip by 30 seconds.

Decrease playback speed: Options available are: single frame, 1/8 speed,

1/4 speed, 1/2 speed, normal, X2 speed, X4 speed, X8 speed, maximum

speed.

Increase playback speed. Options available are:

single frame, 1/8 speed, ¼

speed, ½ speed, normal, X2 speed, X4 speed, X8 speed, maximum speed.

. Recording type: Description of the color coding of recording types that appear in the

playback progress bar. Green indicates continuous recording. Red indicates alarm

recording. Yellow indicates motion recording.

. Video search: This icon is only displayed when you playback the result of a search or for

all-day playback. It does not appear for all-day playback. Click it to return to the Search

window and reselect the search criteria.

. Hide toolbar: Hide the playback control toolbar.

. Quit playback:

For all-day playback mode, quit playback and return to live view.

For playback from search mode, quit playback and return to the search results window.

. Playback progress bar: This bar displays how far playback of the recording has

progressed. It also indicates the type of recording using color.

. Timeline: Allows you to jump forwards or backwards in time. The timeline moves left

(oldest video) to right (newest video). Click a location on it for where you want playback to

start.

In all-day playback the cursor shows the actual time. In search playback, the cursor is a

ball.

Time bar: Time of actual playback. This is only displayed in all-day playback.

Instant playback

Use the quick access toolbar to quickly replay recorded video from a

programmed period (the default period is five minutes). This can be useful to

review an event that has just happened. Only one camera at a time can be

selected. You can change the programmed period from the Display Settings >

Monitor > More Settings page.