Q-See QC40108 user manual Setting Menu, General

5.3 SETTING MENU

Double-clicking on the Setting icon will open the Setting menu window. A total of ten interfaces are available through this menu and they contain most of the functions needed to configure your DVR. Additional settings are available in the Advanced menu covered in Section 5.4. In addition to Schedule and Detect, which were covered in Chapter 4, available interfaces are: General, Encode, RS232, Network, Alarm, Pan/Tilt/Zoom, Display and Default.

Pan/Tilt/Zoom cameras will be covered in

Chapter 6 while Alarms will be covered in

Pack Duration – Rather than creating 24-hour long files when a channel is set to record all the time, this allows you to set the maximum record length between one to two hours (measured in minutes).

DVR No. – If you are controlling more than one DVR with a single remote, this allows you to give each DVR a separate numerical ID.

Video Standard – This DVR operates using the NTSC standard common to North America.

Auto Logout – This sets the duration of inactivity before the DVR will automatically log a user out of the system.

Snapshot – When you enable snapshots in the Schedule menu (Section 4.6), this determines how much time will pass between snapshots. You can set the interval from 1 to 600 seconds (10 minutes).

their entirety in Chapter 7.

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This window is where the basic settings for the DVR are configured. Your settings will only be saved if you click the Save button before exiting the window.

System Time – The date and time

Date Format – Choose from Year-

Month-Day, Month-Day-Year or

DST – In order for your DVR to adjust to Daylight Savings Time automatically, you should enable the function and then set whether DST begins and ends in your region based on a variable date such as the last Saturday of a particular month or a specific date.

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Day-Month-Year

Date Separator – The three options are a dot (.), dash (-) or slash (/)

Time Format – Chose between 24-hour (military-style) or 12-hour (AM/PM) formats

Language – The system currently supports

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change to take effect.

HDD Full – Depending on the number of cameras recording, the size of your hard drive, how many cameras are recording and how often, image quality and other factors, your DVR’s hard drive can be completely full of recordings in one to four weeks. When it is full, the DVR will stop recording unless you set it to overwrite older files.

IMPORTANT! The overwrite features should be enabled before you begin recording or the DVR may not delete files created before that point. If this occurs, reformatting the hard drive will fix the situation.

WARNING! Overwritten files can not be recovered. Important files should be backed up onto another device to prevent loss.

LCD Shut Down – This will turn off the screen after a period of inactivity. This does not log the user out, and it can be set to a different interval than the Auto Logout.

IMPORTANT! You MUST stop all recording before changing the date or time.

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