User Manual Manual
Table Of Contents
- Chapter 1 Product overview
- Chapter 2 Installation
- Chapter 3 Getting started
- Chapter 4 Operating instructions
- Chapter 5 Recording settings
- Chapter 6 Alarm settings
- Chapter 7 Network settings
- Chapter 8 Storage management
- Chapter 9 Camera settings
- Chapter 10 Live view
- Chapter 11 Controlling a PTZ camera
- Chapter 12 Playing back a recording
- Overview of the playback window
- Playback pop-up menu
- Instant playback
- 24-hour playback
- Playback speed and skip time
- Searching recorded video
- Playing back recordings by time and video type
- Playing back recordings by event
- Creating and playing back bookmarked recordings
- Slideshow of snapshots
- Playing back recordings from the system log
- Playing back frame-by-frame
- Digital zoom in playback
- Chapter 13 Archiving recorded files
- Chapter 14 NVR management
- Chapter 15 User management
- Chapter 16 Using the web browser
- Appendix A Specifications
- Appendix B Port forwarding information
- Appendix C Maximum pre-recorded times
- Appendix D Default menu settings
- Appendix E Product codes
- Index
Chapter 10: Live view
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Figure 16: Quick access toolbar
Table 9: Description of the quick access toolbar icons
Icon Description
Freeze: Freeze the live image of the selected camera. Although the image pauses, time
and date information does not. The system clock continues to run.
Manual Recording: Start/stop manual recording.
The icon is red when manual recording is enabled. See “Manual recording” on page 30
for information on setting up this function.
Instant Playback: Playback the recorded video from the last programmed period
(default time is five minutes). If no recording is found, then there was no recording
made.
Click the icon and select the desired camera. Click OK.
See “Instant playback” on page 92 for information on programming this time.
Audio: Enable/Disable audio output. The audio option must already have been setup in
the Display menu.
Capture: Capture a snapshot of a video image. The image is saved on the unit.
PTZ Control: Enter PTZ control mode.
Digital Zoom: Enter digital zoom. See “Digital zoom” below for further information.
Image Settings: Enter the image settings menu to modify the image lighting levels.
There are three options:
Customize: Modify brightness, contrast, saturation, and hue values.
Restore: Restore image settings to previous values.
These settings can also be modified from the Camera>Image menu (see page
“Adjusting video image settings” on page 67.
Live View Strategy: Select one of the three types of image quality that best suits the
situation. The quality can depend on several factors such as resolution, frame rate,
bandwidth, etc.
Real-time: Real-time images displayed but it may have a delay.
Balanced: A mix of real time and fluency.
Fluency: Smooth flow of images.
Auxiliary focus: Automatically focus the camera lens for the sharpest picture.
Lens Initialization: Initialize the lens of a camera with a motorized lens, such as PTZ
or IP cameras. This function helps to maintain lens focus accuracy over prolong periods
of time.