Instruction Manual

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MENU FUNCTIONS
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MENU FUNCTIONS
Display: Camera
Camera No.: Choose the channel you want to edit here.
The Camera No is the same thing as the number written on
the rear panel next to the BNC socket used to connect the
camera.
Camera Name: Enter a name for the camera you’ve selected.
By default, all channels are named as the Camera No. field,
but this can be set to anything you’d like up to 16 characters.
Display Camera Name: When checked, the name you’ve
entered for the camera/channel will be displayed on-screen
as an overlay.
Record Date: When checked, the date (as displayed) will be
recorded directly on to your videos. This can be useful, as it
creates an inseparable record of exactly when the footage
was captured.
OSD Display Position: Gives you access to a screen where you
can easily set the exact positions of any overlaid text, such as
the camera name and the date and time.
Simply select any item you want to move (such as the Channel
Name and/or the Date and Time) and click and drag it to the
position you’d like it to be.
To exit the OSD Display Position screen, press the right click
button. A context menu will appear with two options: Save and
Exit. To exit without saving, simply choose Exit. If you want to
save your changes, choose Save first.
Image Settings: Gives you access to image adjustment tools,
allowing you to adjust the way the DVR interprets and displays
video images. See opposite for more information.
Brightness: Changes how light the image appears to be.
However, it can’t make the camera see further in the dark, or
increase the clarity of an ill-lit image.
Contrast: Increases the difference between the blackest black
and the whitest white in the image. Useful if sections of the
image “grey out” but setting the contrast too high will degrade
image quality.
Saturation: Alters how much color is displayed in the image.
The higher the saturation, the more bright and vivid colors
will appear to be. Again, setting this too high can degrade
image quality.
Hue: Changes the color mix of the image (this can have very
dramatic results). It’s somewhat like moving through a
rainbow.
Remember: Your image settings will affect your recordings!
You can use the Image Settings to help fine-tune your Motion
Detection sensitivity. At night, your camera’s images may
seem to flicker slightly, or to have increased “noise”. In video,
“noise” is random fluctuations of pixels, a little like an old
television that is not set to a station, often called “static”.
By tweaking the Brightness and the Contrast you can eliminate
much of this video noise, increasing the quality of your images
and the accuracy of the Motion Detection.
Mask: When checked, allows you to create, place and shape
a “privacy mask” which obscures part of the image on the
associated channel.
The Display: Camera menu is where
you can make adjustments to how the
DVR displays the feed coming from your
cameras.
You can adjust aspects of each channel/
camera, such as:
• the camera’s name
• what information will be displayed on-
screen, and where this information will
be displayed
• whether information such as the date
will be recorded directly onto your
videos
• any areas of the video you want
“masked” - that is, left blank
The Image Settings you choose will affect your
recorded footage. Rather than applying the changes
after the video has been processed (like many older
DVRs) the Image Settings affect how the DVR decodes
the video it is receiving from the cameras.