Swann H.264 manual Color Setup, Live Viewing Enabling and Disabling Channels, Displaying the Time

Color Setup

You can fine tune the look of each channel individually by adjusting the HUE, BRIGHT (brightness), CONTRAST and SATURATION values for each channel. Just select the SETUP option under the COLOR heading to open the dialog window.

This is useful if peculiar lighting conditions, a non-standard camera or a conspicuously colored object in the frame cause the display to be inconveniently tinted, or over/ under exposed. Basically, this will help fix something that just doesn’t look ‘right’.

HUE: Changes the color mix of the image (this can have very dramatic results). It’s somewhat like moving through a rainbow.

BRIGHT: 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.

LIVE Viewing - Enabling and Disabling Channels

Monitoring something that you’d rather keep private/secret/unknown to the casual observer? No problems. You can alter which channels appear when in live viewing mode, and which ones appear later on.

To do so is simple: simply locate the LIVE drop down menu - it only contains two options, Enable or Disable. Simply change the value to Disable and that channel will now appear to be blank in live viewing mode. Images on the channel in question will still be recorded - and you’ll see it as normal in playback mode.

Displaying the Time

In the nearby LIVE TIME and RECORD TIME drop down menus, you can select whether you want to see the time displayed on the channel in either live viewing mode or recording, respectively. The time will always be recorded in the event list and in the footage’s meta-data (the information included in the file such as when it was recorded - you can access this later) - this simply changes whether or not you see it in the main view screen.

Remember: After making changes to the settings press/click the APPLY button. 21